214 [February, 



17th. — P. harmda, one, by beating. This" species has been I'are here for several 

 years. I took a larva the preceding season. 



18th. — A. Baumanniana. 



19th. — P. falcula, bred. 



20th. — H. harhalis, by beating. E. punctaria, hy beating. E.x>endul aria, hy 

 beating. A. mendica, on the wing. — Abuaham Edmunds, Cemetery House, Ash- 

 wood Road, Worcester, Novemler 9th, 1865. 



(To be contimxed.) 



Note on the food of Lohophora viretata. — This insect has been bred by HeiT 

 Hoffmann, of Ratisbou, from lai'vos which fed on the berries of Actea spicnta. The 

 yonng larvae bore into the unripe berries in July, and afterwards quit the berries to 

 attack the leaves of the plant. 



At the end of July or beginning of August, the larvse descend to the surface of 

 the earth, and there form earthen cocoons, sticking to any extraneous object — 

 generally to some of the fallen dry berries. 



Herr Hoffmann bred also Eupithecia argillacearia from the berries of the same 

 plant. (See Wiener Entom. Monatschi-iffc, 1864, p. 26-27.)— H. T. Stainton. 



" Coleoptera Atlantidum.," being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the 



Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries; by T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Van Voorst), 1865. 



Every British Coleopterist must feel an inward gratification at the addition of 

 such a book by his fellow-countryman to the literature of the science. The amount 

 of material (and especially nevj material), — the peculiar attraction of the study of 

 geographical distribution of species, the accuracy, elegance of diction, and evident 

 good faith of its author, — combine to render this volume at once interesting and 

 instructive in the highest degree. 



We are apparently in a great measure indebted for it to the lai'ge mass of 

 species recently collected by the Messrs. Crotch : these, indeed, constitute the chief 

 novelties of the book ; which, in other respects, may be considered as a careful 

 revision of the " Insecta Maderensia" and " Catalogue of Canarian Coleoptera," with 

 the addition of divers species found in the Atlantic Islands, and described or naen- 

 tioned in other publications. Thus the characters of all the Coleoptera as yet 

 found in these islands are collected into one volume, which is furnished with a map, 

 and excellent Topographical and general Indices, in the first whereof are indicated 

 the European (and other) forms to which many of the species are most closely 

 allied, and of which they may possibly be considered as local modifications. The 

 author, indeed, whilst very fairly stating the evidence on both sides, expi-esses an 

 opinion that some of these latter, though differing permanently, will pei-haps provo 

 local phases of European species ; and his remarks on variation, &c. (p. xxxix., et 

 seq.. Int.), will be perused with great interest. It appears that no truly African 

 element is indicated in these islands, nearly all the species not peculiar to them 

 being Mediterranean ; and, curiously enough, the Canarian Coleoptera seem to be 

 more European than the Madeiran, — molgrd the more northern position of the latter 

 group. Those observations seem to corroborate the extended view of the European 

 Fauna now so generally received. 



