118 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



On November 3rd I swept Ajyldhona cyanella, Thyamis 2^"S'?^«s, 

 Agelastica halensis, Chrysomela staphjlea, and thirty C. hyperici ; and on 

 4 til, CoccineUa Id-jninctata, Dromius agih's and linearis, and Apion 

 nlicis from broom. From moss on the 10th I took Loricera pili- 

 cornis, Anchomenns micans, Notiopjhilus palustris, Metahletes foveola, 

 Tachyjwrus pallidus, pitisiUus, obtustis, hrmmeus and humerosus, Hypera 

 nigrirostris and Plectrocelis concinna, and I also swept more A. halensis 

 and C. hyperici. Along the river bank, on the 17th, the sweep-net showed 

 up Anchomenus oblongus, Bradycellus verbasci, Hydraena riparia, Stenns 

 bimactdosus, Lathrobium boreale and brunnipes, Prasocuris phyhmdril, and 

 fifty-six Halticidae, Chrysomela hoemoptera, and a very late Donacia 

 linearis were also taken, together with a dozen Dyschirius globosus, under 

 moss on willows. Then the frost set in. Leistis fulvibarbis, however, 

 turned up at the base of an alder, and several Chrysomela polita with 

 Hister marginatus at that of an oak, on the 24th. Pojolars near Wood- 

 bridge, on the 23rd of December, were productive of Carabus granu- 

 latus, Dromius meridionalis, Bembidium rvfescens, Phalacrus corruscus, 

 Myceto-phagns quadripustulatus and Erirhinus validirostris, together with 

 Leptothorax acervorinn, which brought to a close a most sviccessful 

 year's collecting, the result of which is, roughly, about six hundred 

 species — only the more prominent of which have been enumerated, 

 as the space requisite for a detailed account would be too great — a 

 far longer list than that of last year (1893), as recorded in The 

 Entomologist's Record at the beginning of 1894. — Claude Morley, 

 London Koad, Ipswich. Dec. 31st, 1894. 



OTICES AND REVIEWS. 



A Handbook to the British Macro-Lepidoptera, by B. G. Rye, 

 F.E.S., with hand-coloured illustrations by Maud Norman-Fisher. 

 Published by "Ward and Foxlow, St. Marylebone. [Vol. I., Pt. I., 

 Price 2/6]. — We want a scientific book to replace Newman's British 

 Butterjiies and British Moths and Stainton's Manual ; we get a plethora 

 of children's and beginners' books that in no way approach either. 

 The letter-press of this part might very well have been written a 

 century, perhaps two centuries, ago. In the 1st Chapter on 

 '' Metamorphoses " there is really nothing which an observant child 

 does not learn during his first year's collecting ; the only original 

 statement perhaps being, " The structure of the perfect insect is of 

 great importance, as upon it are based the primary characters used in 

 the classification." We are pleased to say that this idea lias died a 

 natural death during the last twenty years. In the second chapter, on 

 " Classification," the author states that " The Order Lepidoj^tera, or 

 scale-winged insects, according to the most recent arrangement, is 

 placed between the Diptera (flies) and the Trichoptera (caddis-flies), a 

 sub-order of the Neuroptera or net- winged insects." Surely it is too 

 late in the day to pretend that any linear arrangement of Orders, 

 Families, Genera, or even Species, is possible which shall show actual 

 relationships. The author classifies mainly on " walking legs " and 

 " neviratioii," and great is the muddle thereof. Only one species is 

 treated of, Papilio machaon. The description of the type, which 

 everyone to whom the book is supposed to appeal must possess, 

 occupies 22 lines ; the " variation " of the species three lines (see Ent. 

 Rec, Vol. iv., pp. 100-108) ; the larva (see Buckler's Larvae, &c.) 



