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also Geometra smarar/daria, lacking usual white hair on fore wings. — 

 Mr. G. H. Heath, ova of Laphi/'jma exigua. — Mr. A. W. Mera, Oncullia 

 atiteris, bred from larvae found on sea-aster on Essex marshes. — Mr. 

 L. W. Newman, Papilin nmchaon, from Wicken,with red coloration in 

 all the luaules on hind wings, Acromjcta rumicis var. mlich, from 

 Barnsley, and Macaria lUnrata var. ni;i)ofiili-at<i, from Delamere. — Mr. 

 L. B. Prout, on behalf of Mr. G. B. Oliver, melanic specimens of 

 Acidalia subsericeata and A. marrjinepxinctnta , from North Cornwall. — 

 Mr. V. E. Shaw, a series of Scoria dealhata, Wye Downs, June, 1906, 

 Deilcphila livornica, Torquay, June 2nd, 1906, and Tapinostola bondii, 

 Folkestone, July 10th, 1906.— S. J. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



BiRJiiNGHAM Entomological Society. — Jime 25th, 1906. — Mr. G. H. 

 Keurick in the chair. — Mr. J. Simkins showed a boxful of forced 

 Sphiugidffi, including Acherontia atropoa, L., Clucrocampa elpenor, L., 

 and C. porcellus, L., from Kent, and various other species of con- 

 tinental origin. — Mr. A. H. Martineau, a small collection of Hymeno- 

 ptera formed at Warwick by Mr. E. L. Thompson when a boy at 

 school there. It included Sapijga clavicornis, L., Arjenia hircana, F., 

 Odiinerus sinuatus, F., Nomada borealis, Zett,, and other interesting 

 species. — Mr. Gilbert Smith, a number of specimens of Tetropium, 

 part of a large number he had reared from one batch in a tree-trunk. 

 They prove'd to be 17 per cent, gahrieli and the rest crawshayi, and as, 

 moreover, they paired inter sc, it would appear that there is but one 

 species, and not two, as supposed. The species would be called 

 gabrieli, and crawshayi would be merely a form with darker femora. 

 His opinion was that the darker femora appeared when the species had 

 fed in fairly new moist wood, and the lighter femora when it had lived 

 on older dry wood. — Colbkan J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



KECENT LITERATURE. 



Insect Pests of the Farm and Garden. By F. Martin-Duncan. Pp. 143, 

 with 44 illustrations. 2s. 6d. net. London : Swan Sonneu- 

 schein & Co., Ltd. 1906. 



After discussing, in Part i., insects and insecticides, the author, 

 in Part ii., treats seriatim of a considerable number of small crea- 

 tures injurious to plants of farm and garden. Notwithstanding the 

 title of the book, mites of various kinds (Arachnida) are included in 

 both parts. The species selected are mainly those treated in the 

 pamphlets of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, which, we must 

 confess to thinking, will better serve the purpose of the farmer or 

 gardener. No doubt they will find the present book of much use also, 

 but the author scarcely seems to speak, to our thinking, with sufficient 

 directness and authority. Of the illustrations, the microscopical ones 

 and some of those made from drawings are good ; those of tiie 

 Lepidoptera are, generally, poor. In the language are a number of 

 solecisms — for instance, ocelli and trachea? used as singular nouns, 

 and ovse for ova more than once. w T T 



