184 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Coenobia, Steph. (1856), t. rufa, Haw. Nonagria, Ochs. (1816), 

 t. maritima, Tausch (also type of Ghilodes, H.-S. (1845) ). Oria, 

 Hiibn. (1827), t. musculosa, Hiibn. (also type of Synia, Dup. (1844), and 

 of Tapinostola, Led. (1857)). Panemeria, Hiibn. (1827), t. tenebrata, 

 Scop, (also type of Heliaca, H.-S. (1852)). 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 1909- 

 iPiO. With Thirteen Plates. Pp. i-xvi, 1-133. The Society, 

 Hibernia Chambers, London Bridge. 



Considered either from the literary or from the pictorial point 

 of view, the present volume of ' Proceedings ' must be acknowledged 

 as one of the best, if not the best, this eminently progressive Society 

 has produced. In addition to the instructive matter detailed in the 

 "Abstract," there are nine papers (of which we can only enumerate 

 the titles) of considerable interest : — " Stray Notes on the Variation 

 and Distribution of Boarmia repandata in Britain " (pp. 1-4, plate i.), 

 and "Notes on the Earlier Stages of Nola albulalis" (pp. 41-42, 

 plates xi., xii.), by Eobert Adkin, F.E.S. ; " Eesting Attitudes 

 of Lepidoptera," by A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. (pp. 5-8, plates ii. iii.) ; 

 " Notes on Diptera," by H. W. Andrews, F.E.S. (pp. 34-40) ; " Larval 

 Stages of Ghrysopora hermayinella, Fab.," by Alfred Sich, F.E.S. 

 (pp. 43-49, plate xiii.) ; " Stray Notes on Ticks," by F. Noad Clark 

 (pp. 29-33, plates ix., x.) ; " The Scotch Fir {Pinus sylvestris)," by 

 W.J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. (pp. 9-13, plates iv., v.) ; "Fruits," by 

 Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S. (pp. 14-20, plates vi.-viii.) ; " Our 

 Authorities : an Introduction to the Early Literature of Entomology," 

 by Henry J. Turner, F.E.S. (pp. 21-28). 



All the plates (except xiii., which is from drawings) are from 

 photographs by the authors of the respective papers they illustrate, 

 and are of great merit. 



The President (Mr. A. Sich) devotes a large portion of his address 

 to the interesting subject " Lepidopterous Evolution." 



Catalogue of British Hy7nenoptera of the Family ChalcididcB. By 

 Claude Morley, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Pubhshed by the Trustees of 

 the British Museum. 1910. 

 Mr. Morley has published the first complete synonymic Cata- 

 logue of the British species of this well-known though little- 

 worked family of Hymenoptera, uniformly with the defunct ' General 

 Catalogue of the Insects of the British Isles,' begun by the Entomo- 

 logical Society. In the preface he tells us that this Catalogue 

 completes our lists of the indigenous Hymenoptera, a vast order of 

 insects, which numbers some 4830 species in Britain alone. Of 

 these, the present list includes references to a hundred and forty- 

 eight genera, comprising 1424 species, as is indicated in the summary, 

 corrected to March 15, 1910. The whole is comprised in seventy-four 

 pages, with index to the correct and the synonymic genera. A 

 catalogue is the precursor of a monograph ; with this basis we trust 

 some student will ere long arise and give us a detailed account of 

 these multitudinous and beautiful parasites. 



