176 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



flies from a single cell together with the wasp. The university 

 collection of bloodsucking flies was also on view, containing practically 

 all the known species and many types. — Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited 

 the genus Acidalia as at present arranged, and also as it falls into 

 two distinct groups when classified according to the genitalia. — Mr. 

 C. E. Stott sent for exhibition a specimen of Thyreocoris scaraboides, 

 a chalk hemipteron picked up on the shore at Blackpool. — Wm. 

 Mansbridge, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalcence in the British Musemn. 

 Vol. xii. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. Pp. i.-xiii. and 

 1-62G. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees. 1913. 



This volume, the 12th of the Phalaenae, and the 9th dealing with 

 the Family Noctuiidte, treats of a portion of the Catocalinae. The 

 remaining species of this Subfamily and those belonging to the Sub- 

 families Mominae and Phytomatrinae will form the subject-matter of 

 volume 13. Classification of the Subfamily Noctuinae will be com- 

 menced in volume 14. 



Sixty-three genera (15 new) and six hundred and forty-three species 

 (71 new) ai'e entered, and fully described, in the present volume. 



The six genera noted below have over thirty species each, and 

 collectively they embrace rather more than half of the entire number 

 of species considered — Catocala, Schrank (86 species), Parellelia, 

 Hiibn. (85 species), Ephestia, Hiibn. (63 species), Achcea, Hiibn. 

 (50 species), Anna, Walk. (46 species), Catahapta, Hulst (31 species). 



Roughly estimated, over two hundred species have hitherto been 

 referred to the genus Catocala of authors, but, as indicated above, 

 only eighty-six are here retained in Catocala, Schrank ; the largest 

 number being allocated to other genera as follows : — Catahapta, 

 Hulst (t. antinympha, Drury), 31 species. Mormonia, Hiibn. (t. epione, 

 Drury), 16 species. Ephesia, Hiibn. {t. fulminea. Scop.) 64 species. 



Maxula, Walk. (t. unstrigata, Guen.) and Pyramarista, Kirby 

 (t. rufescens, Kirby) are merged in E^tmonodia, Walk. (t. pudcns. 

 Walk.) ; whilst Spirama, Guen. (t. suffumosa, Guen. = retorta. Cram, 

 nee Linn.), and Hypoptjra, Guen. (t. triloba, Guen.) are sunk in 

 Speiredonia, Hiibn. (t. retorta, Linn.). 



Only thirteen species are retained in Ophisma, Guen. (t. gravata, 

 Guen.), a number of species placed in OpJiisma by Guen^e, Walker, 

 and others being referred to Achcea, Hiibn. (t. meliccrta, Drury). 



The majority of the species here assigned to the genus Parallelia, 

 Hiibn. (t. bistriaris, Hiibn.) were originally described in Ophiusa. 



Minucia, Moore (1884), replaces Ophiodes, Guen. (1841), as the 

 latter name is preoccupied in Reptilia. Only two species are included 

 in this genus — lunaris, Schitf., the type, and wiskotti, Piing. 



