160 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CURRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Continued from p. 139.) 



Bergrotli (3) describes several new myrmecophil Rbyncbota ; 

 among tbe PyrrbocoridaB [Lygaeidse auctt.] , Neohlissus paras- 

 sitaster, a new genus and species from Brazil allied to Blissus, 

 living in tbe nests of Solenopsis geminata (Fabr.). Wasmanu 

 states that tbe apboid appearance of tbe young larvae and the 

 investment of fine yellow hairs of tbe adults seem to point to 

 a true guest-relation (myrmecoxeny) ; but Bergroth notes that 

 Blissus, which is not myrmecophil, has similar larvae and a 

 similar pilosity. In the Reduviidae is noted Enicocephalm (or, 

 as Bergroth spells it, " HeiiicocepJialas'') braunsii, a new species 

 from South Africa, which lives in tbe nests of Rhoptromyrmex 

 transversinodis, Mayr, an ant very much smaller than its visitor. 

 This is the first known myrmecopbyl Enicocepbaline, and as this 

 subfamily is insectivorous, the new form is probably myrmeco- 

 pbagous. In tbe Miridae, Lissocapsus ivasmanni, a new genus 

 and species very near Sijstellonotus, Fieber. This is from Mada- 

 gascar, and lives in tbe nests of Cremastog aster ranavolonis, Forel. 

 Bergroth also mentions the occurrence of Triphleps niger, Wolff, 

 in the nests of Lasius Jiaviis in Germany. 



Alfken (4) gives lists and descriptions of tbe insects collected 

 by Scbauinsland in the Bawaiian Isles, Laysan, New Zealand, 

 and Chatham Island, during 1896 and 1897. Tbe double plate 

 contains six beautifully coloured figures of Pyrameis gojierilla and 

 itea [Lep.] and ten plain figures of Ortboptera. 



Turner (5) has commenced a revision of Australian Lepi- 

 doptera, beginning with tbe Notodontidae and Yponomeutidae ; in 

 these families seven genera and seventeen species are described 

 as new. 



Tbe historian of the American Membracinae has now given 

 us [6] a monograph of tbe Australian forms ; fourteen genera 

 and thirty-two species are noted — surely a small proportion of 

 tbe entire membracine fauna of Australia. Some of the species 

 of Tragopa live in tbe ground in tbe nests of ants. 



Among other recent publications may be noted: — 



7. C. BoRNER : " Zur Kiiirung der Benigliederung der Atelo- 



ceren"(Zooi.Anzeiger,xxvii. 226-43; text-figs. 1-5 (1904)): 

 a Survey of Limb Articulation in the Arthropoda. 



8. E. H. Sbllards : "Discovery of Fossil Insects in the 



Permian of Kansas " (American Journ. Science (4) 16, 

 pp. 323-4 (BlattidcB) (1903)). 



9. H. Gadbau de Kerville : " L'accouplement des Forficu- 



lides" (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 85-7; 1 text-fig. (1903)). 



