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[May 1S96 



the thorax joins the body, and dropping 

 on its legs with its prey between them, 

 ran rapidly nnder the log before it could 

 be captured. The incident explains in a 

 measure the constant presence of the 

 Clerus on soft wood logs. They are 

 looking for food. F. C. Bo-ivditck. 



Tvtt's British Moths. — In a volume on 

 British Moths just published by Routledge 

 (London) Mr. J. W. Tutt treats the principal 

 members of that group in England in accord- 

 ance with the latest views on their classifi- 

 cation as outlined by him in a paper read 

 last year to the Entomological Society of 

 London. To some of the groups he appends 

 a table of their time of appearance in the 

 different stages, larval food plants, frequency, 

 etc. A dozen colored plates and about fifty 

 cuts, most of them rather rude but charac- 

 teristic, help the beginner. There is a great 

 deal of information packed into the 36S pp., 

 but discriminating tables for the separation 

 of the groups would have rendered the work 

 more serviceable. 



Notes. — In the recent memoirs of the 

 Zoological society of France (v. S, p. 1-140, 

 1895), Charles Janet follows in minute detail 



all the steps in the formation of a complete 

 nest of Ve^pa crabro., with numerous figures. 

 It will be found very valuable for comparison 

 in studying our native wasps' nests. 



With the issue of part xxiv, Moore's Lepi- 

 doptera Indica completes its second volume, 

 in which the Satyrinae are concluded, the 

 Elymniinae and Amathusiinae treated, and 

 the Nymphalinae only begun. Apparently 

 it will take nearly or quite another pair of 

 volumes to complete this last subfamily. 

 The present part contains illustrations of 

 the early stages of Charaxes and Eulepis. 

 Two figures are given of apparently full 

 grown larvae of R. athamas but with totally 

 different markings, to which no reference 

 appears in the text. 



H. F. Wickham prints a list of 700 Lake 

 Superior Coleoptera, adding their extralimi- 

 tal distribution, in Vol. 6 of the Davenport 

 Academy's Proceedings. 



We regret to notice the death early in 

 March, at the age of 85, of Dr. Juan Gund- 

 lach who has lived since 1S39 in Cuba and 

 devoted himself for more than half a century 

 to the study of its natural history and espe- 

 cially its entomology and ornithology. His 

 rich and unique collection was secured some 

 years since by the Havana Institute. 



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