164 THE entomologist's record. 



We have to call attention to the latent ( 'atalnifiic nf titr llritis/i 

 Cfilcoptera, by Professor T. Hudson Beare and Horace 8t. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe, which has just been published by Messrs. Jansou and 

 tSon. We shall publish a review shortly, but may remark here 

 that the list seems to be very complete, and the type clear. The 

 authors give a short preface, a list of the abbreviations of authors' 

 names (a new and useful addition), and an index of genera. It is also 

 made clear for the first time where only a variety of a species occurs in 

 this country and not the type. Another good idea is exhibited in the 

 label list, which is so bound that it can be used either as a label 

 list or as an interleaved copy for notes. 



We are already indebted to ^lessrs. Bankes, Ovenden and Whittle for 

 the larvse of sevei'al plumes, although still very short of material. The 

 species of which we have so far this spring had larvjt are — Andisti.s 

 bennetii, Plati/ptilia !/<>)W(lartt/la, Oxtj])tilt(s lietcrodactyla, Mhnaescojitihis 

 fascHS, Leiuptiliix lienifiifmiis, Aciptilia tetradactyla. A. baliodacti/lu, A. 

 f/alactodacti/la, and A. /loitadarti/la. We shall also require pupne 

 of all these, as we are permanently preserving a good deal of the 

 larval material for reference and illustration. Larvae of any 

 species not mentioned above will be gratefully acknowledged. Criti- 

 cal species particularly wanted are — Platyptilia isodactyla, I', nc/ini- 

 darti/la and P. hertrauii, Oji/ptiliis dintann and O. pam'darti/lo, Miiiia- 

 ('sc(i/itilt(s bipiiHctidartj/la [jdayioilactyla) and .1/. lo/diodactyla, I'tcio- 

 jdtonis tiionodacti/la. Lciojitilus te/diradactyla and />. dfitcodacti/la, and 

 AcijitiUa paluduiii. The early stages give fundamental classificatory 

 characters, which will prevent the lumping of phcwodacUjla and 

 iiiirrodaetyla (see Marasiuarclia, Meyrick, Handbook, p. 48H), of oxteo- 

 dactyla, tepliyadactyla, licnyianiis, unoiodactyla, and lithodactyla (see 

 Alitcita, op. cit., pp. 488-9), etc. Will those gentlemen who are 

 so kindly helping us please pot up a plant of the different foodplants 

 now on which to enclose imagines later in the season, so as to get eggs, 

 and from these larvae in their 1st instars? 



In the Knt. Zeits. (inben is a description of a new aberration of 

 I'haretra )iienyantliidis, named ab. sarton'i, Hockemeyer, its peculiar 

 character being the dark coloration of the basal area. The specimens 

 were bred in quite the normal way by Sartorius, at Hamburg. 



What has happened to the Froceedinys of the South London Knto- 

 inoloyical Sorirty and the Tianmctions of the City of London F^ntmiio- 

 loyical Society for 1908 '? It is a great pity these cannot he brought 

 out quite early in the year, and without unnecessary delay. 



;i^OOK NOTICE. 



Practical Hints for the Field Lepidoptehist. — Part III and 

 [Specific Index to Parts I, II and III. — This will be put in hand as 

 soon as 120 guarantors (at 4s. 6d. each) are forthcoming. The fol- 

 loAving names have been received up to the present : Miss Alderson. 

 Rev. F. E. Lowe, Rev. W. W. Flemyng, Capt. E. W. Brown, Dr. J. N. 

 Keynes, Messrs. A. Bacot, E. R. Bankes, P. J. Barraud, C. W. Col- 

 thrup, J. W. Corder, E. Crisp, G. Fleming, J. E. Gardner, G. C. 

 Griffiths, A. Harrison, O. Harrison, H. Main, J. F. Musham, -T. 

 Ovenden, V. E. Shaw, A. 8ich (2), F. Wallace, C. J. Watkins. 



