78 THE EN'TOJIOLOGISt's RECORD. 



culicina, ivom Nairn and Porthcawl ; J 'ac/n/)iic)ia erberi, (vom Biitley, 

 Suffolk; Hilara ai'ionciha, ivom. Leith Hill and Tunbridge Wells; 

 //. hiinibria, from Stanford, Norfolk ; and H. diceinipes, from Nairn. 



The Kntonioloi/ischc MitteiltiiH/cn is the new monthly periodical 

 which has taken the place of the bimonthly Deutsche Entowoloi/ische 

 Xational Bibliotliek as the organ of the German Entomological 

 Museum, Berlin-Duhlem. The get-up and general contents of the 

 first number are a great advance upon its predecessor. It is illustrated 

 by plates and diagrams, and is printed on good paper. Among the 

 contents are a " Sketch of the history of the German Entomological 

 Museum," by its Curator Herr W. Horn, " Entomological Nomen- 

 clature," by Herr S. Schenkling, and a " Bibliographical Study of 

 Panzer's Fauna Injector uvi Germanica" by Herr Roeschke. 



Yngve Sjostedt's Zoologische Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 1905=6. 



{Ahthcilungen 1-22. loh. I-III. 4to Stodihohu 1910.) 

 By MALCOLM BUEE, D.Sc, F.Z.S., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



Professor Sjostedt left Stockholm on April 20th, 1905, and landed 

 again on Swedish soil on August 2nd, 1906, bringing back with him 

 three and a half tons of baggage Avhich contained his zoological 

 collections, consisting of over 59,000 specimens, representing upwards 

 of 4,800 species of animals ; of these, over 1,400 were new to science. 



The working out of this extensive material was delegated to a 

 number of leading specialists, the results of whose studies are published 

 in three sumptuous quarto tomes, consisting altogether of 2328 pages, 

 illustrated by 87 plates. 



The country which was thus scientifically explored consists of the 

 plateaus of the Kilimandjaro-Meru district. The former is the loftiest 

 mountain in Africa, attaining an altitude of 6,010 metres or 19,718ft., 

 and its neighbour, Meru, reaches 4,680 metres or 18,124ft. Kilimand- 

 jaro is an eruptive mass, consisting mainly of granite, and gneiss of 

 Tertiary Age. So lofty a mountain, situated on the Equator, naturally 

 presents a great variety of conditions : Sjostedt enumerates the zones 

 as follows : — 



First, the Steppes, between 2,000 and 8,000 ft. ; secondly, the 

 cultivated zone, lying between 8,000 and 6,000 ft. ; thirdly, the humid 

 forest zone, between 6,000 and 10,000 ft.; fourthly, the Alpine belt, of 

 grass and scrub, up to 18,000 ft. ; and finally the peak itself or High 

 Alpine zone, from 18,000 to the apex. 



The P'auna and conditions of these belts is discussed by the author 

 in the first 80 pages, which are most interesting reading, illustrated 

 by eighteen plates of really fine photographs of the people and the 

 scenery. 



The Vertebrata and Molluscs occupy a relatively small space, for it 

 is the insects which take up the bulk of vols. i. and iii., and the 

 whole of vol. ii. The Coleoptera are worked out by no less than 

 twenty-three specialists ; the Hymenoptera are well treated, but the 

 Lepidoptera take up much less space. They are dealt with by Professor 

 Aurivillius, who enumerates 202 species of Rhopalocera and 885 of 

 Heterocera. It is pleasant to see the so-called neglected orders dealt 

 with in such detail. The Diptera, partly by Sjostedt himself and 



