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Pseudoscorpion [l.'helanops sp ?) ; Coleoptera, both adults {Metawasius 

 dimidiatipennh, Alerioria dilatata, Cri/ptobiutn sp ?, an Endomychid 

 genus, new, near Trochoideus, Cercyon or Phacnonotum sp ?, and 

 Phaenonotuw tarsale) and larvae (Elaterids, probably of the genus 

 Seuiiotxs and others allied to what is considered the larvoe of Dolopins, 

 a Lampyrid of an unknown genus, but apparently related to Pkoturis, 

 a Sphjeridid, possibly Phacnonotum tarsale) ; a Dipterous larva 

 (Stratiomyiid) with a circle of set^e at its hind end ; two Heteroptera, 

 the subglobular shiny Chlaerocoris dinsimUis and a flat nymph of 

 (probably) Belminns riujnloms : a Hepialid caterpillar ; a small earwig 

 (" too immature to be determinable, probably it is a Labia, possibly 

 L. annulata," Burr) ; ants of an undescribed species of Apterostiijma. 

 The weevil, Metamasins diniidiatipennis, bore many Acari (a species of 

 Uropoda) on its legs, and another large Acarine was present between 

 the leaves. Finally in the mud between some of the leaves was a fair 

 sized earthworm (an immature Andiodrilus biollei/i)." The author 

 continues: " The list here given .... does not include by any 

 means all the bromeliadicoU which we met with in Costa Rica, but is 

 interesting as giving a glimpse of the organic environment of the special 

 subject of the paper " the " Habits of the Plant -dwelliii;/ [.arva of 

 Mecistor/aster viodestus." 



We have received a long paper published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society of London, for September, 1911, by Lieut. -Col. 

 Manders, R.A.M.C., F.Z.S., F.E.S., entitled " An Investigation into 

 the Validity of Miillerian and other forms of Mimicry with special 

 reference to the Islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, and Ceylon." The 

 author takes each island in turn and enumerates the reptiles and birds 

 which are known to attack insects ; he has collected as many data of 

 observations as were possible and in addition made experiments as 

 opportunity offered. In conclusion, he shows that neither the 

 Miillerian nor the Batesian forms of mimicry are illustrated in the 

 insect economy of these islands, as in Bourbon and Mauritius there 

 are no butterfly-eating birds or reptiles, while in Ceylon the butterfly- 

 eating reptiles are impartial feeders and no bird known to eat butter- 

 flies discriminates between one species and another. 



In the Ent. Mo. May. for January, the Rev. A. E. Eaton describes 

 a species of Diptera new to science, Telniatoscopus rothscldldii, of which 

 the Hon. N. C. Rothschild has taken specimens off a tree trunk near 

 the Serpentine in Hyde Park. 



In the same number Mr. .J. E. Collin edits a new series of notes 

 on species of Diptera new to Britain, by the late G. H. Verrall, F.E.S. 

 They are Sciara lonyirentris, from Sutton Park ; Ijeia terminalis, from 

 Herefordshire ; Boletina basalis, from Ivybridge, Bettws-y-Coed, etc. ; 

 Platyura niyricauda, from Llangollen and Bewdley ; P. modesta, from 

 Dorset; P. niyriccps, P. hiuneralis, from Nairn and St. Albans; 

 Scatopse talpae, from Reigate, Cambridgeshire and Suftolk (this species 

 is new to science) ; S. co.vendix, from Lewes, Chippenham, Lyndhurst, 

 etc. (new to science) ; Cricotopus ptdchripes, from Snowdon (new to 

 science); Ceratopoyon pallidus, from Handcross, Sussex; C. nubeculosiis, 

 from Worms Hd., Aldeburgh, Wareham, etc. ; C. forcipatus, from 

 Penzance ; C. versicolor, from Newmarket ; C. iiobilis, from Studland, 

 Dorset; Di.va niyra, from Nairn; Limnobia decemmaculata, from 

 Tarrington ; Psiloconopa pnsilla,ivoxa S.Herefordshire; Bhamphomyia 



