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three very useful papers on the Orthoptera-Fauna of the Caucasus, 

 which is exceedingly interesting, as northern, Alpine, meridional, and 

 Asiatic forms meet in this highly diversified district. — M.B. 



P. A. Zaitseff, former editor of the licvue russe d'Entomolouie, has 

 been appointed to the post of Entomologist of the Botanic Gardens 

 at Tiflis.— M.B. 



B. P. UverofT, at the Entomological Bureau of Stavropol, in the 

 Northern Caucasus, is a valued recruit to the gradually increasing 

 array of Russian entomologists, and has already done good work on 

 the Orthoptera of the Caucasus, Turkestan, and the Transcaspian 

 district.— M.B. 



The Orthoptera-Fauna of Russia is so varied that this group has 

 attracted more students in Russia than in any other country. 

 Excellent work is being done and has been done by A. P. Semenoff- 

 Tian-Schansky, N. Adelung, N. Zubowsky, Y. P. Shtschelkanovtseft", 

 N. Ikonnikoff, B. P. Uvaroff, Retowski, the late A. M. Shaguroff, J. 

 Ingenitsky, Stsherbakov, and others. — M.B. 



In the Scottish N^atiiraliftt for August, Mr. W. -J. Lucas gives a 

 report of a considerable number of species of Odonata, taken by Col. 

 J. W. Yerbury in the North of Scotland from localities of which but 

 little has been known hitherto. The account includes the reference 

 to a presumably new species of Sywpetntni, described by Mr. Lucas, 

 Ent., xlv. (1912), p. 171, as .S. nifp-escens, and distinguished as being 

 intermediate between S. striolattim and S. scoticum. 



We have heard with regret of the death of another of the older 

 entomologists. Dr. Sequiera, well known for so many years as a 

 constant attendant at the fortnightly meetings of the City of London 

 Entomological Society. He was the life long-friend of the late J. A. 

 Clarke whose collections contained so large a number of extreme 

 varieties of our native species of Lepidoptera. For some years past 

 Dr. Sequiera had been totally blind, but up to a few months before 

 his death he kept up a most lively interest in everything that was said 

 at the City of London meetings and also in the exhibits, which had to 

 be explained to him. He was a man of unusually buoyant spirits and 

 even the great affliction of his later years never altered his cheerful 

 and hearty manner. He was within a few days of 84 years of age. 



Mr. H. H. Brindley, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, is 

 pursuing an investigation into the Proportions of the Sexes in For/icula 

 nnricularia. From observations made in many localities upon thou- 

 sands of specimens there seems to be a preponderance of the female 

 sex in most places, although the percentage of males has been found to 

 vary (1) in different localities, (2) in the same locality in different years, 

 (3) before or after hybernation, etc. But the evidence as yet is con- 

 sidered to be insufficient to suggest any very definite statement of 

 result. 



In the August number of the Revue Mensuelle of the Societe Ento- 

 mologique Namuroise, Dr. Goetghebuer records the capture of examples 

 of a new aberration of Melanan/ia aalathea, in which the ground colour 

 of the wings is of a very light yellowish, very much lighter than in the 

 ab. citrana, Lamb. The undersides of the hindwings are quite without 

 traces of the usual black design. Dr. Goetghebuer has named it ab. 

 Jlavesceus. 



In the September part of the Revue M. Lambilliou announces the 



