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highest development in imagines of that genus. Morphology and 
anotomy are closely studied, while wing neuration and markings are 
discussed in even greater detail. Miyake concludes that the Japanese 
Panorpids may, generally speaking, be grouped in two categories as 
regards wing-marking :— (i.) apical dark part incompletely developed 
and pterostigmatic fascia rather narrow; (ii.) apical dark part com- 
pletely developed and pterostigmatic fascia rather broad. 
Species of Panorpa frequent shady places, often resting on a leaf; 
they are dull insects, easily captured. They live chiefly on animal 
matter, preferring dead or dying insects or other small animals, and 
probably but seldom capturing living prey. Occasionally, at any rate, 
they will feed on vegetable juices, &c. It seems doubtful if the 
weaker and less active insects, comprising the genus Panorpodes, are 
carnivorous at all. They are more mountain-loving insects, and are 
sometimes attracted by light. Species of Szrttacus prefer places 
more shady than those affected by Panorpa. They suspend them- 
selves from a branch or leaf by the legs (usually the fore ones). 
Generally, but not entirely, their food is living insects which they 
capture. A life-history given is that of Panorpa klugi, already 
noticed in ‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlvi. p. 271. 
Miyake is inclined to reduce the number of genera and species of 
Japanese Mecoptera, but he describes four new species :—Panorpa 
arakave, Panorpa hakusanensis, Bittacus takaoensis, and B. margi- 
natus, and five new subspecies. Besides six figures in the text there 
are ten excellent plates. WJ eos 
A Revision of the Ichnewnonide. Based on the Collection im the 
British Museum (Natural History). With Descriptions of New 
Genera and Species. Part I1.—Tribes Rhyssides, Echthro- 
morphides, Anomalides, and Paniscides. By Cuaupe Morney, 
¥.Z.S., F.E.S. Pp. i-xii and 1-140. Printed by Order of the 
Trustees of the British Museum. 1913. 
Tue two hundred and ninety-eight species here dealt with belong 
to the subfamilies (1) Pimpline and (2) Ophioninz, each of which 
comprise two tribes as follows :—(1) Rhyssides, numbering six genera 
and seventy-two species (ten new), and Echthromorphides, two 
genera and thirty-two species (six new). Pyramishyssa, Moes., is 
also mentioned in the table of genera, but is not otherwise referred 
to. (2) Anomalides, sixteen genera (five new), and one hundred and 
eighteen species (thirty-eight new) ; Paniscides, six genera (one new), 
and seventy-six species (seventeen new). Labrorychus, Forst., and 
Hrigorgus, Forst., are also given in the table of genera. 
In preparing this valuable revision, the author had the advantage 
of ready access to Museum types, without which labour of this kind 
would have been almost futile. 
The plate, which is in colour, represents a male specimen (much 
enlarged) of Certonotus geniculatus, Morley, reproduced from a 
coloured drawing by Mr. Rupert Stenton, who presented it to the 
British Museum. 
