•>7(j [November, 



condition of the cabbages in the gardens. A good many specimens of 

 P. brassicse in quite fresh condition have been observed on the wing at the end 

 of September and well into the second week of the present month,* the usual 

 summer brood having disappeared long before. This would seem to indicate a 

 partial third brood of the butterfly, as was the case in the autumn of 1898 

 (<•/. Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XXXIV, p. 278, and XXXV, p. 12).— James J. Walker, 

 Oxford : October VJth, 1914. 



Receyit Literature. — In the present critical state of affairs on the continent, 

 which is certain to interrupt the publication of the scientific periodicals of 

 every country, it may not be out of place to note that the June and July 

 numbers of the " Annales de la Societc Entomologique de Belgique " contained 

 papers by the following authors : F. J. Ball — " Le Dimorphisme saisonnier des 

 androconia chez certaines Ehopaloceres " (illustrated by 2 plates) ; E. Bergroth 

 — " Two undescribed Pentatomidce from New Caledonia," and " Three new 

 Heteroptera from Ceylon" ; E. Bubois et E. Vitalis de Salvaza — "Contribution 

 a la faune entomologique de l'lndochine franeaise" (containing the first in- 

 stalment of a systematic catalogue of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera of the family 

 Papilionidse) ; and F. Ohaus — XIII Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Ruteliden. In 

 the June number (p. 169) M. Guilleaume enumerates various Curculionidse rare 

 or new to the Belgian fauna, some of which are well known British forms. 

 The additions are Bagous nigritarsis, Thorns., Orchestes pratensis, Germ., Gymne- 

 tron villosulum, Gyll., collinum, Gyll., and pUosum, G-yll., Ceuthorrhynchidius 

 terminatus, Herbst, Ceuthorrliynclius nanus, Gyll., and Rhinoncus albicinctus, 

 Gyll. One species in this Belgian list, Magdalis violacea, L., certainly ought 

 to occur in Britain, as it is very widely spread on the continent wherever pines 

 are to be found. 



The Australian Zoologist. Vol. I, part 1, Sydney. July 13th, 1914. — 

 The first part of this new periodical, issued by the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales, and edited by Allan E. McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum, 

 contains two papers directly or indirectly connected with entomology : 



(1) The Mallophaga as a possible clue to bird phylogeny, by Lancelot 

 Harrison ; (2) A Monograph of the genus Tisiphone, Hiibner, by G. A. Water- 

 house. The author of the second paper recognizes two species of this genus 

 of butterflies, T. abeona, Donovan, with five subspecies, which are illustrated 

 on a good uncolo\u - ed plate, and T. Helena, Olliff. 



" Supplement to Dr. Sharp's Coleoptera of Scotland," by Anderson 

 Fergusson. Reprinted from the " Scottish Naturalist, " July, 1913 — June, 1914. 



For a long time past, Scotland has been a specially favoured resort of En- 

 tomologists ; and since the completion in 1882 of Dr. Sharp's series of valuable 

 and interesting papers in the " Scottish Naturalist " on the Coleoptera of that 



* On October 23rd I saw a small 6 specimen, apparently in good condition, flying vigorously 

 in a gleam of sunshine. 



