80 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Ichneumonologia Britannica, it. The Ichnewmons of Great Britain ; 
a Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species 
indigenous to the British Isles, together with notes as to Classi- 
fication, Localities, Habitats, Hosts, dc. By Cuaupe Morey, 
F.E.S. Pp. i-xvi, 1-328. H. & W. Brown, 20, Fulham Road, 
London, 8.W. 1908. 
Tue third volume of Mr. Morley’s valuable work on our parasitic 
flies was published at the end of November last; it deals with the 
third great subfamily, the Pimpline, which, as*the author states, is 
probably better known than any of the others on account of the 
large size and interesting economy of many of the species belonging 
to it. Two hundred and eleven species are included in the sub- 
family, and these are divided up into the following five tribes :— 
Xoridides (8 genera, 15 species); Pimplides (12 genera, 106 
species); Lissonotides (9 genera, 62 species) ; Aczenitides (8 genera, 
13 species); and Banchides (2 genera, 15 species). 
The Xoridides prey chiefly on wood-feeding Coleoptera and 
Hymenoptera. The majority of the Pimplides affect lepidopterous 
or hymenopterous larvee—at least one attacks the nest of the mason 
wasp, and a few destroy spiders or their eggs. Lissonotides are 
mainly associated with Lepidoptera, and rarely with Coleoptera. Of 
the Aczenitides the hosts are but little known, and so far as has been 
ascertained seem to be parasitic, as are the Banchides, on Lepido- 
tera. 
F The present volume is in every way quite up to the standard 
of the first one, which we had the pleasure of noticing some five 
years ago (Entom. xxxyvii. p. 52). As we then remarked, parasitical 
flies are well known to the rearer of Lepidoptera. How few of us, 
however, seem to recognize the possibility of the destroyer of our 
hopes being some rare or little-known species of ichneumon. 
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 
Durham, and Newcastle-wpon-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. iii, 
parti. Pp. 1-222, and i-xxvii. London: Williams & Norgate. 
Newcastle: Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Ltd. 1908. 
THE part contains, among other papers of interest, two upon 
entomological subjects. One of these, by Richard 8. Bagnall, treats 
of new Genera and Species of Thysanoptera; it occupies pp. 183-217, 
and is accompanied by two well executed plates. The other is part 
ii. of a paper entitled “ Catalogue of Butterflies collected in Burmah,” 
by Lt.-Col. C. H. E. Adamson (pp. 116-148). A paper ““On some 
Rare Arachnids captured during 1907,” by A. Randell Jackson, M.B., 
may also be mentioned. 
Twelfth Report of the State Entomologist of Minnesota for the Years 
1907-1908. By F. L. Wasnpurn. Pp. i-x, and 1-205. 
DEALS with numerous insect pests, and the methods employed to 
check their ravages. 
