272 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of species of the genus Erehia, including series of E. zapa?eri, from 

 Spain, and K. christi from Switzerland. He also showed a series of 

 Melanar/iia lachesis. — Mr. South, ova of Tortri.v piceann. and Retinia 

 pinicolana from Oxshott. — Mr. Adkin, several masses of cocoons of a 

 species of Apanteles, which had emerged from the larvas of Boarmia 

 (jemmaria in his garden. A discussion ensued as to the cause of the 

 curious curved position of the larval remains over the cocoons. — Dr. 

 Chapman, a specimen of ScoliaiUa [Boliemannia) quadrimaculella from 

 Reigate. — Hy. J. Turner [Hon. Rep. Secretary). 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



W. F. Johnson and J. N. Halbert. " A List of the Beetles of 

 Ireland." 1902. Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. (3), vi., pp. 535-827, 

 and 1 map. 



It was hut a few months ago (Entom. 1902, pp. 54-6) that we 

 hailed the termination of Mr. Kane's ' Catalogue of Irish Lepidoptera,' 

 and we have now to welcome a similar summary of our knowledge of 

 the Coleoptera. A number of local records and partial lists have been 

 published since the days of Haliday, the father of Irish entomologists, 

 in 1828, but Johnson and Halbert are the first to present us with a 

 complete list, a large proportion of the records, indeed, having been 

 made by these author's themselves. 



In noticing Kane's work, we briefly summed up the views upon the 

 Erse Fauna held by various specialists in geographical distribution, 

 and these remarks naturally apply also very largely to the beetles.* 



Some 1630 species are enumerated, a little less than half the total 

 British Coleopterous Fauna ; of these some forty are noted as having 

 been probably introduced more or less recently. There are no species 

 certanily peculiar to Erin, though one form [Silpha atrata var. .sui- 

 rotundata) occurs in the Isle of Man, but not on the Continent, and 

 has been recorded only very doubtfully from England. There are, 

 however, five species of European distribution not yet found in 

 England — viz. Di/scJiirius obscuriis, Stenun anjentellus, Beinhidmm 

 arijentiolum, Xantholuntu cribripennis, and OtiorrliyncJius auropunctatiis, 

 the last three being recorded for the first time as British. 



In the Bibliographical List there are cited fifty- five authors who are 

 responsible for nearly 250 papers and isolated records of Irish beetles. 

 This work, accompanied as it is by notes of capture, &c., of the rare 

 and local species, must prove of high value to the working coleopterist. 

 We believe that the authors have also devoted considerable attention 

 to the Rhynchota, and we hope that they will before long produce a 

 similar account of that highly interesting but sadly neglected order. 



G. W. K. 



* Led astray by a misprint in Scharff's work, we unfortunately over- 

 looked a suggestive paper by G. H. Carpenter, " The Problems of the British 

 Fauna" ('Natural Science,' 1897, xi., pp. 875-86). 



