1879.] 117 



Pcecilosoma longicorne, Thorns., •which, if it proves to be the same, would be new to 

 Britain, and rare in Europe. I hare given it to Mr. W. D. Eoebuck, of Leeds, wlio 

 reports on the group for Yorkshire, and he will doubtless take the matter in hand, 

 and inform upon it shortly. I captured it flitting about a tree of boxwood in the 

 garden adjoining the house. — S. D. Baiestow, Woodland Mount, Huddersfield : 

 l*^ September, 1879. 



Transactions of the Norfole and Norwich Naturalists' Society, vol. 

 ii, part v. 1879. 



The entomological interest of this Part (which concludes vol. ii of the Trans- 

 actions) is centred in a continuation of the " Fauna and Flora of Norfolk, part ix ; 

 Eymenoptera — ChrysididcB and Aculeata," by Mr. J. B. Bridgraan, one of the Vice- 

 Presidents. This list is worked out in the same complete manner as was Mr. Barrett's 

 contribution to the same "Fauna," noticed at p. 43, vol. si, of this Magazine, and we 

 could not accord it higher praise than by bo saying. Norfolk is evidently rich in 

 Aculeates. Mr. Bridgman records 12 species of ChrysididcB, 11 Seterogyna (9 ants 

 and 2 MutiUidcB), 74 Fossores, 16 Diploptera, and 133 bees ; and believes the number 

 might be much increased if observers were sufficiently spread over the county. By 

 wliat was probably a mistake of the printer the value of the sub-divisions is in a few 

 instances not very clearly indicated, through wi'ong type having been apparently used. 

 Norwich (and the county of which it is the capital) is happy in possessing as energetic 

 and intelligent a body of Naturalists as can be found in any provincial city or town of 

 the same importance, as the Transactions of its Natural History Society sufficiently 

 prove. The other papers in the Part before us are chiefly ornithological, but of in- 

 terest to all Naturalists, not the least so being an historical and categorical sketch of 

 the duck-decoys of the county. There is also a memoir of Samuel Woodward, the 

 founder of the family of scientific men of that name, and who, as is well known, was 

 a Norwich citizen. Also a highly instructive and painstaking address from the Pre- 

 sident, Mr. F. W. Harnier, F.G.S. We wish the Society all success. 



Journal of the Eotal Microscopical Society. London and Edinburgh : 

 Williams and Norgate. 



The publications of this old-established scientific Society need no praise from 

 us ; yet we cannot refrain from noticing the vast improvement in the Journal in its 

 present form, and which we are probably not far wrong in believing to be due to the 

 great energy of Mr. Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., F.L.S., one of the working Secretaries. 

 It now forms a complete repertory of every tiling connected with Microscopy, each 

 part (in addition to the ordinary publication of papers read before the Society) being 

 crammed with paragraphs abridged from publications all over the world, and on every 

 imaginable subject; and the most complete bibliography we have ever seen published 

 in the Journal of a scientific Society. We think also that we notice indications of a 

 desire to discourage the making use of the Society by rival opticians for advertising 

 purposes (excepting in the proper place on the cover). Most of the best microscopic 

 work has been done with the simplest instruments ; it is only the thorough-going 

 amateur who turns the microscope into a toy, and spends a small fortune in expensive 



