76 THE entomologist's record. 



they inflict, descriptions of the insects in all their stages, their habits 

 of life, the times of their appearance, an account of the experiments 

 made to destroy by spraying, cultivation, etc., and the various control 

 measures likely to be successful, are all discussed at length. 



In a notice of the books just recently published we read that 

 Messrs. Longmans have brought out a book entitled Jhittnjh/ Ihtntintj 

 in Maui/ Lands, by Dr. George Longstaflf. The book is illustrated 

 by plates in colour. Dr. Longstaff is, we know, a great traveller and 

 wielder of the net, and his book therefore should be of much interest 

 to entomologists, as well as entertaining to the general reader. — A. S. 



Among the contents of the Jieiiimr h'ntniiiolni/isrhc Zeitsdirift for 

 the past year, we note the following articles which may be of more or 

 less general interest. (1) " The Entomological Results of a journey 

 through lipper Italy and the South Tyrol in 1910," giving notes on 

 the various captures in the orders Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, 

 Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Ehynchota from the middle 

 of May to the beginning of August, with plates, on one of which is a 

 figure of a teratological specimen of lUapH imicronata with a bifid left 

 antenna. The paper is by Herr Willy Ramme. (2) " A Second 

 Contribution to the Lepidopterous Fauna of the North with critical 

 remarks," by Herr H. Stichel. One of the most useful portions of 

 this lengthy article is a bibliographical list of no less than 131 books 

 or articles in which the same northern areas are dealt with more or 

 less at length, and which he has consulted. As to new names, the cry 

 is " Still they come," ej/., ('crura bifida saltcnsix iovma pofrilia, which 

 we presume means Centra hijida subsp. saltcnsis ab. pnccilia. There 

 is one plate of newly named forms. (3) " A Contribution to the 

 Orthopterous Fauna of the Mark Brandenburg," (The Berlin area), by 

 Herr Willy Ramme, with one plate. 



The Naturalist for December contains the reproduction of a capital 

 photograph of three specimens of I'olia c/ii resting in proximity to one 

 another on a wall. This picture gives one the idea that this species is 

 not protectively coloured for resting on a wall, a fact which is in 

 accord with the experience of many of our personal friends. We have 

 always been told that sitting on a wall it is a most conspicuous insect. 

 One of the moths is the dark form oliracea, but it appears to be almost 

 equally distinct as do the other two. Is this the universal experience 

 of observers ? 



In the Kntomohxjist for December, Mr. H. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., contributes a " Revised list of the British Ants." 



In the November number of the Kntomnhxiiral Xeirs Dr. Philip P. 

 Calvert of Philadelphia continues the account of his investigation of 

 the inhabitants of the water and debris which collects between the bases 

 of the leaves of the epiphytic Bromdiaccae in the neighbourhood of 

 Juan Vinas, Costa Rica. He was particularly investigating the 

 habits of the larva of one of the Odonata, Mecistoiiastcr vwdestas, Selys, 

 which he knew lived in such situations. From the most interesting 

 account given in his paper we extract the following paragraph 

 giving the list of inhabitants of one clump only of the Bromeliads. 

 He writes, " This clump of Ijromeliads was tenanted, in addition to 

 the Odonate larva', by a young scorpion {(^entrurus iiiar<iaritatiis) two 

 inches long, which had just moulted, the exuvite also found ; two 

 species of Phalangids [^leteryitvus sn/natus and t'ynorti sp '?) ; a 



