7^ THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Feb. 11th, 1897. — Dianth(ecia conspersa ab. ochrea. — Mr. Routledge 

 exhibited a fine ab. m-hrea of D. conspersa, bred from pupte received 

 from the Orkney Islands. The ground-colour was of an ochreous tint, 

 the usually white markings being grey. Larv.e of Hepialus lupu- 

 LiNus. — Mr. Tutt exhibited two living and several dead larvae of 

 Hepialus lujndinus, dug up on Feb. 10th, by Mr. E. A. Bowles, at 

 Waltham Cross, at the root of a Poeoiiia :>jfici)ialis, within an area of 

 one square foot. The dead larvae had been attacked by a fungus, and 

 were quite rigid with the vegetable growth which had completely 

 replaced the internal organs and tissues of the larva. Living larv/E of 

 Bryophila PERLA. — Mr. Tutt also exhibited living larvae of B. peiia, 

 found by Dr. Chapman, at Hereford, on Feb. 10th, in situ, on a 

 small piece of the fungus-covered stone on which they were found. 

 The larva lives during the winter in a little close nest or cocoon, each 

 solitarily, and does not feed in the winter, but had evidently already 

 begun to do so when taken. The larvae appeared to be in the 

 penultimate skin. Aplecta occulta bred in winter.— Mr. McArthur 

 exhibited a specimen of Aplecta occulta bred on the day of the meeting 

 (Feb. 11th), from a Rannock larva. Mr. Adkin exhibited a long 

 series of imagines of the same species, recently bred from larvjB taken 

 in the same locality. Photo-micrography. — Mr. F. Clark, assisted 

 by Mr. Furneaux, then exhibited some 60 photo-micrographic slides of 

 insect anatomy, with the aid of the lantern. The slides were most 

 interesting and instructive, those exhibiting the differences between 

 the antenntP of Hi/beruia aurantiaria and //. defoliaria, the tongues 

 of various insects, the androconia of the Lycjenids, etc., being much 

 admired. 



KIEYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Die Deutschen Pterophorinen. — [With three plates, pp. 194, 

 Regensburg, 189'4-95, by Dr. Ottmar Hofmann] . — The object of 

 the present notice is to call attention briefly to a paper which 

 is the most important contribution to our knowledge of the 

 Plume moths yet published in Germany. The author, it is believed 

 correctly, regards Plume moths as a separate family from the I^i/ialidae. 

 Dr. Hofmann divides the species under 13 genera, and gives a careful 

 description of all the stages, with new and interesting anatomical 

 details. Particularly valuable are the observations on the pupa, and 

 the embryonic condition of the veins in the pupal wing. It is 

 probable that the generic groups founded by Dr. Hofmann are of 

 sub-family value. Among the English species identified by Dr. 

 Hofmann on the Continent, is O.ri/ptilus heterodactylus (teucrii. Green.), 

 with its variety, celusii, Schmid. Analytical tables for the determina- 

 tion of both genera and species are given, and the figures on the three 

 plates are finely executed. The limits of the present notice will not 

 allow of further detail, but the careful work in the separation of 

 the genera may be briefly commended. Dr. Hofmann shows that 

 Oedematnpliorus is a good genus, differing from Leioptilus by the scale 

 patches on the middle tibiae, the neuration, and in that segments 2-3 

 of the abdomen are comparatively more elongate than in Leioptilus. 

 In view of the uncalled for suppression of natural genera, which is 

 occasionally noticeable in the works of recent writers, Dr. Hofmann 's 

 careful study is most grateful reading. — A. R.adcliffe Grote, Roemer 

 Museum, Hildesheim. 



