1. 1- [July. 



IS not a bit better than bad pinning, and it ia perhaps owing to the careless manner 

 in wliieli it is sometimes done, that the objections to it principally arise. It is qiiite 

 possible to mount a small insect on card so as to equal in appearance the drawing of 

 an experienced artist, and this is what ought to be aimed at ; but the same cannot be 

 said of pinning, at least in Hymeiioptera and Diptera. And if a good coloured 

 figure of an insect is valuable, how much more so is the insect itself when exhibited 

 in a similar style ? 



I should recommend the carding of about nine-tenths of the British Hymen- 

 optera, and of nearly all the Diptera, certainly all the TipuUdm. But of all insects 

 not of minute size, which it is desirable to card, there are none for which it is more 

 essential than the EphemeridcB. With the sole exception of the eyes, they preserve 

 well, and the species are recognisable. I can show well-preserved specimens set 

 thirteen years ago. 



Let it be borne in mind that the question under disciission is not one of science, 

 but of art, and its decision rests with the artist as well as with the scientific entomo- 

 logist ; but if the artist is also a scientific entomologist, he will know what are the 

 parts of an insect which it is needful to display carefidly, so as to be fit for examina- 

 tion with the microscope. — Benjn. Cooke, Bowdon, Cheshire : 12^/* June, 1875. 



Deilephila livornica in Olamorgan.—\ have to-day had a live specimen of D. 

 livornica brought me. It was taken in a cottage in this town. — EvAX John, 

 Llantrisant : 27^/t May, 1875. 



%tntws. 



Entomologische Nacheichten. Nob. 1 — 4. Putbus. January — February 

 1875. 



We have received the first four numbers of this new fortnightly periodical 

 edited by Katter. It seems to aim at taking the place of the " Correspondingblatt," 

 foi-merly edited by the late Dr. Herrich-SchadOfer. Each part consists of eight octavo 

 pnges. There is little original matter in the parts before us, and we content ourselves 

 by announcing the advent of the journal, and by the remark that, if it is to be a 

 success, it can only be obtained by a considerable improvement in future numbers. 

 Most of our readers (like ourselves, till we looked it out on the map) are probably 

 ignorant of the geographical position of Putbus, so it is weU to explain that it is a 

 small tow^^ in the island of Eiigcn in (he Baltic. 



Seventh Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and othee Insects 

 of the State of Missouei : by Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist. Jefferson 

 City, 1875 ; pp. 1—196. 



It has always afforded us great pleasure to notice Mr. Riley's Annual Reports, 

 and this sensation is by no means lessened on the present occasion. Probably the 

 range of subjects treated upon is not so wide as in some former Reports, but we 

 observe that the author's accustomed careful and exhaustive treatment has in 

 no respect diminished ; perhaps in some respects the Report has profited by con- 

 centration. Nor must we forget the elaborately careful drawings from the author's 

 own pencil, and the (on the whole) equally painstaking way in which these drawings 

 have been treated by the engraver. * 



