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the host of seven species of mites, while Ponera lutea and Polymdds 

 hexacantha are each associated with six species ; one mite has been 

 found with four species of ants, but as a rule they have only one host. 



Turner (A. J.). New Australian Lepidoptera of the Family Tortricidae. 



— Trans. Proc. R. Soc. S. Australia, Adelaide, x\, 23rd December 

 1916, pp. 498-536. [Keceived 21st May 1917.] 



Among the 81 new species described in this paper is Bondia nigella 

 bred from larvae found in plum-root galls. 



Lower (0. B.). Descriptions of New Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. — 



Trans. Proc. R. Soc. S. Australia, Adelaide, xl, 23rd December 

 1916, pp. 537-514. [Eeceived 21st May 1917.] 



Among the fourteen new species here described is Tortrix eveleena, 

 sp. n., which appears to be gregarious and has very active larvae 

 which feed on the leaves of the ornamental shrub, Pittosporum 

 phillyraeoides. 



Masi (L.). Chalcididae of the Seychelles Islands. — Novitates Zoologicae, 

 Tring, xxiv, no. 1, 16th May 1917, pp. 121-130, 75 figs. 



This systematic paper deals with the collection of Chalcididae 

 made by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Western Indian 

 Ocean in 1908-9. A strikingly large proportion of the species was 

 found among the non-endemic vegetation at lower levels, especially in 

 the narrow cultivated plains and small marshes which fringe the 

 coast of the islands. The collection contains 69 genera and 93 species, 

 of which 22 genera and 77 species are new to science. 



The species previously known from other countries include, 

 Hockeria testaceitarsis, Cam., discovered in the Caragados Is., Cocco- 

 jphagus eleaphilus, Silv., from Eritrea, Melittobia hawaiiensis. Perk., 

 Tetrastichns hagenowii, Ratz., Euplectrus bicolor, Swed., and Eucomys 

 infelix, Embl. Only 2 species were formerly known from the Sey- 

 chelles, viz. : — Chalcis sodalis and T. hagenowii, Ratz., a very widely 

 distributed parasite of the eggs of cockroaches. 



Bagnall (R. S.). On a Collection of Thysanoptera from St. Vfncent 

 with descriptions of four new species. — Jl. Zool. Research, London, 

 ii, no. 1, March 1917, pp. 21-27, 3 figs. 



The new species of West Indian thrips described in this paper 

 are : — Hoplandrothrips xanthopoides, H. brunneicornis, Malacothrips 

 modestus and Cryptothrips collaris. 



Headlee (T. J.), The Strawberry Weevil (Anthonomus signatus, Say). 

 — New Jersey Agric. Exp. Sta., New Brunswick, Circ. 56, 8 pp., 

 1 fig. [Received 22nd May 1917.] 



The matter in this paper has already been abstracted [see this 

 Review, Ser. A., iv, p. 189]. 



