REVlTilW. 



J^09 



''Tlie Entomologists Annual for 1^^^) " 

 By H. T. Stain-ton, F.L.S., and 

 others. (London, Jno. Van Voorst.) 



This yearly record of Entomolo- 

 gical discovery has again made its 

 appearance, and we doubt not will 

 prove as welcome as any of its pre- 

 decessors, although it may not be 

 so rich as some in novelties. The 

 work opens with a short article on 

 Devonshire, by the Editor, Mr. H. 

 T. Stainton, but as he seems to 

 have been unfortunate in his choice 

 of weather for his visits, his experi- 

 ence of that county is somewhat 

 gloomy. This is followed by 

 Translations of two Sketches of 

 Travels in Norway, by Dr. Wocke 

 and Geo. Ritter von Frauenfeld, and 

 then the real object of the Annual 

 is commenced ; Mr. W. F. Kirbj 

 has a short series of Notes on Eu- 

 ropean Butterflies, which is to be 

 considered as supplementary to his 

 excellent Manual, and in which he 

 corrects some errors into which he 

 had fallen, and adds information 

 since gathered. 



The next article is a Synonymic 

 List of British Trichoptera, by Mr. 

 R. M'Lachlan ; as this gentleman is 

 engaged on a Monograph of the 

 British Species, which we are glad 

 to hear is in a forward state, he has 

 omitted all mention of the unre- 

 corded species, nevertheless the list 



will be welcomed by those gentle- 

 men who are working up this inter- 

 esting order. 



The new species of Coleoptera 

 are described by Mr. E. C. Rye, and 

 although that gentleman laments 

 the scarcity of Insects owing to the 

 long continued drought of the past 

 summer, we think the discovery of 

 J28 species new to Britnin, a fair 

 average crop of novelties for one 

 season ; of these, two are new to 

 science, AntciUa pnncticollis, taken 

 by Mr. D. Sharp, in August, at 

 Rannoch, and described in the Zo- 

 ologist, p. 8999 ; and Ceuthorliyn- 

 chideus Poweri, taken by Dr. Power, 

 at Weybridge, in June, and also 

 taken at Silverdale, near Lancaster, 

 by Mr. J. Sldebotham, of Manches- 

 ter ; this species was described by 

 Mr. Rye at p. 137 of the Entomolo- 

 gists' Monthly Magazine. 



" It is an ill wind that blows no 

 one luck," and if the past season has 

 been too dry for ColeojDtera, Mr. 

 Frederick Smith has found it " in 

 every respect highly fovourable to 

 the aculeate Hymenoptera." He 

 records therefore the capture of a 

 considerable number of the rarest 

 species, and the addition of one new 

 one to the British Fauna, Formica 

 exsccta, Nyl. ; besides this Mr. 

 Smith appends some valuable re- 

 marks on the sudden ajDpearance 

 and disappearance of species from 

 certain localities, and points out 



