﻿152 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



After careful comparison of the figure with specimens, I 

 have come to the conclusion that, regarded as a whole, it is a 

 recognisable representation of an immature male of S. scoticum. 

 I indicate the male, because it seems to me that the figure 

 resembles that sex more closely than it does the female, with 

 which Dr. Ris has identified it. It is true that, as the figure is 

 drawn, only two anal appendages are shown, but the greater 

 resemblance to the immature male is due to the manner in 

 which the black on the sides of the abdomen is represented as 

 encroaching upon the yellow dorsum : in the immature female, 

 on the other hand, the black is confined to the lateral position. 



58, Ranelagh Road, Ealing : Feb. 26th, 1912. 



BY THE WAY. 



" The Essex Field Club has distinguished itself in the self- 

 imposed and entirely honourable task of keeping alive an interest 

 in the past history of the county. It has recently taken in hand 

 the restoration of certain tombs, in the churchyard of Black 

 Notley, of two Essex worthies of the seventeenth century. John 

 Piay distinguished himself for versatility as a linguist, as a 

 botanist and zoologist, and Dr. Benjamin Allen, who is buried 

 near him at Black Notley, was the first scientific student of 

 British mineral waters, and a careful entomological observer . . . 

 and these three men, who were friends and contemporaries, were 

 undoubtedly a remarkable trio, whose light shines through the 

 centuries that have elapsed since they walked and worked 

 together!" — Local paper. The late learned Mr. John Ray, as 

 Derham terms him, we all know through the ' Historia Insect- 

 orum,' published posthumously in London, 1710, by Johannes 

 Raius ; but who was the second " observer," and wrote he aught 

 entomological ? 



We have at length received the first volume of the Victoria 

 History of Suffolk, which was published on 31st of last January. 

 The second volume appeared several years ago, but the present 

 has been much delayed from various more or less obvious causes. 

 This one contains the Fauna of the county, and a pretty long 

 catalogue it is'. Considering the extreme paucity of observers, 

 and several of those we had ten years ago are departed, the list 

 is a capital one in both botany aud zoology. The insects were 

 revised to October, 1907, and show the following totals : — Coleo- 

 ptera, 1930 species ; Hemiptera, 537 species ; Orthoptera, 22 

 species ; Neuroptera, 164 species ; Lepidoptera, 1290 species ; 

 Hymenoptera, 1241 species ; and Diptera, 1171 species. The 

 grand total amounts to 6855 different kinds of insects out of a 



