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exact dates of each larval moult, (3) exact account of the 

 difference in the larval appearance following each moult, (-4) date 

 of spinning cocoon, (5) actual date of pupation ? Any information on 

 above lines will be useful. Eggs, larvje and pupye, including the 

 commonest species, are w'anted for description. 



The Council of the Entomological Society is to be congratulated 

 on the index to the Transactions for 1903, and we have at last a 

 specific index that looks usable. Whilst the consideration of genera 

 is on the board, and changes are necessarily of frequent occurrence, a 

 specific index is the only practicable one if it is to be of the maximum 

 of use to the worker. 



We have received the Tn-i'uti/-si'r<'nth Amnud lUiiort and I'rdcccd- 

 iiu/s III' till' Lancashire andCheshirc Kntninolofiical iSnciety (IdO'd), und 

 find it full of interesting matter. We are pleased to see that Mr. 

 Capper still retains the Presidency, and there can be no doubt 

 that,, under its active Secretaries, new life has been of late infused 

 into the proceedings. The style of the reports of the meetings 

 is this year based on that of those of the South London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society, and make excellent 

 reading. The address of the Vice-President, Mr. W. Webster, 

 ^I.R.S.x\.l., entitled " The Entomologist before the law," is 

 an excellent resume of the position of entomologists with regard to 

 trespassing, rights of way, the introduction of noxious insects, and 

 other interesting details, and should be carefully perused by all field- 

 workers. Two other papers, " Specific differences in Lithosiid*," etc., 

 by Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., and " Some notes on Entomological 

 Antiquities and folk-lore of insects and other creeping things," also 

 by Mr. Webster, are reprints, having already been published elsewhere, 

 and are not continuously paged with the rest of the Report. Both 

 papers will, however, prove quite interesting to entomologists who have 

 not yet seen them. The price is only Is., and can be obtained from 

 Mr. E. J. Burgess-Sopp, 104, Liverpool Koad, Birkdale. 



The excellent account of The lit'c-liistori/ and habits of the im/iortcd 

 Urown-tail moth {Kaproctis chri/s<irrhoea)i, by Professor Fernald and 

 Mr. Kirkland, is sure to find favour in the eyes of British lepidopterists. 

 The information given of the uncertainty of its appearance in Britain, 

 the danuige it has done occasionally in Britain und on the Continent, the 

 history of its introduction into iVmerica, and the serious consequences 

 entailed, together with an account of the urticating properties, etc., of 

 the larval hairs, will be read by all European entomologists with the 

 most careful attention and the greatest possible interest. 



We have received a copy of Dr. Stefano Bertolini's Catalogue of 

 the Coleoptera of Italy. '• It appears to be very complete, and the author 

 has lirought the synonymy and general arrangement right up to 

 date. It is quite impossible to compare it with the British 

 list, as the number of species enumerated is very much greater, and 

 very many genera occur of which we do not possess even a species. 

 We should think it will prove a very i;seful list, and anyone collecting 

 in Italy would do well to procure it. 



t Published by the Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, Post 

 Office Square, Boston, U.S.A. 



* Catalofio (lei Coleotteri iVItaliit, compilato dal Dr. Stefano Bertolini. 

 Siena, 1904. ' 



