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Noctua triangulum and Triphcena fimbria. Mr. Smith, Platypteryx lacer- 

 tula, P. falcula, and some fine forms of female L. alexis ; also a variety 

 of Ccenonympha davus, male, dark bronze with unequal splashes of light 

 colour. Mr. Wright, recently caught A. aglaia and A. adippe. — Arthur 

 Miles Moss, Sec. ; 12, Greenside, Kendal. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — July 18th, 1898. — Mr. A. H. 

 Martineau in the chair. The chairman snowed larvae of Dytiscus 

 marginalia from Eibbesford ; also a Nematus one antenna of which had 

 a white ring near the tip and the other was all black ; he believed it to 

 be gynandromorphous. Mr. Bradley, Megachile willughbiella and M. 

 centuncidaris, male and female of both, obtained from a post near 

 Sutton. Mr. W. Bowater, a specimen of Odynerus pictus which had 

 made its nest behind a picture in his bedroom at Edgbaston. The 

 cells, which were broken, contained about three dozen larvae of one of 

 the sawflies. Mr. Willoughby Ellis recorded the occurrence, at Hay- 

 wood near Solihull, of Strangalia armata, Pterostichus striola, Aphodius 

 fossor, Glythra quadripunctata, Melanotics rufipes, and Serica brunnea, the 

 last occurring on sugar. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hun. Sec. 



KECENT LITERATURE. 



Fauna Regni Hungarian. III. Arthropoda-Hemiptera. Conscripsit 

 Dr. G. Horvath (subordo Aptera a R. Kohaut). Reg. Soc. Sci. 

 Natur. Hungarica. Budapest, 1897. [Editio separata.] 



The thousandth anniversary, last year, of the founding of the 

 Hungarian monarchy has been commemorated by Hungarian zoolo- 

 gists in the publication of a series of catalogues of the fauna of their 

 country. Dr. Horvath has been good enough to send me his contri- 

 bution on the Rhynchota. I call attention to it in the ' Entomologist ' 

 as it seems to me to be well worthy of serving as a model for future 

 faunistic catalogues. It is preceded by an historical preface in Magyar 

 and Latin (in parallel columns), and a bibliography of one hundred 

 and ninety-nine papers, of which Dr. Horvath himself has contributed 

 eighty. Appended is a coloured map, divided into eight numbered 

 sections, referred to in the list of species under the numbers. British 

 rhynchotists will be interested to note that 1643 species (including 

 Mallophaga, &c.) are recorded ; of these 814 belong to the Heteroptera, 

 a suborder of which we have only about 440 species in the British 

 Isles. Of the Auchenorhynchous Honioptera and Psyllidas 502 are 

 enumerated, our British list numbering 200 less. 



Dr. Horvath is always so refreshingly up to date in his nomen- 

 clature, that it seems captious to note a slight error on page 31 in the 

 enumeration of the Gerrididae (a name which the distinguished author 

 rightly substitutes for the usual " Hydrometridae "), viz. the correct 

 name of Gerris cosUe, Herrich-Schaffer, is G. lateralis, Schummel, the 

 latter having twenty-four years' priority. 



G. W. Kirkaldy. 



