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pearl spots greatly reduced. — Mr. A. W. Mera, Sinlosoma luhricipccla 

 ab. radiata and intermediate forms from Yorkshire, specimens of 

 type and var. radiata from larvaa collected on Lincolnshire coast, 

 and specimens from London district taken over a number of years, 

 some but lightly marked, others approaching var. fasciata. — Mr. F. 

 H. Stallman, Dicranura bifida taken at light, Beulah Hill, S.E., July 

 4th, 1911; CoUas hyale, female, Margate, August 10th, 1911; 

 Cyaniris argiolus, a male specimen having a row of well-marked 

 spots on the under side margins of all four wings, from Holmwood ; 

 ,S. convolvuli found at rest near North Foreland lighthouse, August 23rd, 

 1911. — Mr. W. Crocker, a variable series of Leucania favicolor from 

 North Kent marshes, also a pair of dwarf L. favicolor he had reared 

 from ova in October, 1909, the remaining larvae dying after hyber- 

 nation ; Anthrocera filipendula, specimens with a dark vein inter- 

 secting the upper median and sixth spots, and fairly broad borders to 

 hind wings, also two yellow aberrations, and a specimen having an 

 under wing on left side in place of usual upper wing, the right side 

 being normal, bred July, 1910. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, pupas of Eiiinthecia 

 extcnsaria from larvae found on Norfolk coast ; a series of Emmelesia 

 albulata, and its var. thules bred from Unst pupae, 1911, more than 

 half the pupae going over another winter. — V. E. Shaw, Hon. Bep. 

 Secretary. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The Annals of Scottish Natural History. 1911. Edinburgh. 



Not many articles in connection with entomology are to be found 

 in the volume just completed ; perhaps when the ' Annals ' appear in 

 1912 under a new form this may be remedied. There are two papers 

 of considerable importance : — " Scottish Dragonflies ; some further 

 Records and Table of Distribution," by W. Evans ; and " The Aquatic 

 Coleoptera of the North Ebudes," by F. Balfour-Browne, M.A. 

 Shorter papers are : — "On some New and Rare Scottish Diptera," 

 by A. E. J. Carter ; and the Scottish species of Oxyura (Proctotrypidae), 

 pt. vi., by P. Cameron. Short notes on " Labia minor (Orthoptera) 

 in Haddingtonshire," by W. Evans; Acherontia atropos (Lepidoptera) 

 in Caithness," by W. Evans ; and " Northern Records of Diptera," 

 by Col. J. W. Yerbury, complete the list. W J L 



Social Life in the Lisect World. By J. H. Fabre. Translated by 



Bernard Miall. With Fourteen Illustrations. Fisher Unwin. 



London, 1912. Price 10s. 6d. net. 



The lover of insect life who has not yet read any of the delightful 



essays written, under the title of " Souvenirs Entomologiques," by 



J. H. Fabre, would be well advised to- begin reading them at once. 



Darwin used no words of flattery when, in writing to the author 



soon after the publication of his first volume, he said : " Never have 



the wonderful habits of insects been more vividly described, and it 



is almost as good to read about them as to see them." Nothing 



could be truer. Fabre was not only a great and accurate observer, 



