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•chapter on the Myrmecophilous Coleoptera, and list of additional 

 Localities and Notes, in the second part of the volume, ensures the 

 omission of nothing which can be regarded as of importance to the 

 student of the order. 



" How to use the Microscope : A Guide for the Novice," by the 

 Eev. Chas. A. Hall, is a well-written and well-illustrated little 

 •book, which will be found most useful by those who are as yet 

 unfamiliar with the manipulation of this indispensable aid to 

 entomological study. 



Records of species new to the British list in various orders 

 include — 



Coleoptera : '24 species, for details of which I will refer my 

 readers to the entomological magazines, as they are too 

 numerous to be set down within the limits of this paper. 

 DiPTERA ; 44 species may be found in detail in the same place. 

 SiPHONAPTERA : I Understand that a large budget is on the eve of 

 publication in the Plague Supplement to the " Journal of 

 Hygiene" (Indian), but that apparently no new species have 

 been actually recorded durmg the past year. 

 Hemiptera : Two new species are recorded this year — Psyllopus 

 distinijuenda, taken in the New Forest by Mr. Champion, and 

 Aspidiotus bavariciis, from Chester and Aberdeen, recorded by 

 Dr. Leonard Lindmger, of Hamburg. 

 Hymenoptera : T find 4 new species recorded under this head — 

 PoUstes (jalliea, a wasp common on the continent, but hitherto 

 unrecorded here, was taken at Chandler's Ford, Hants, by 

 Major Robertson. Crabro hiesenwctten', a fossorial Hymen- 

 opteron, belonging to the sub-genus li/iupaluni, was taken in 

 Suti'olk by Lieut. -Col. C. G. Nurse. HaHctua decipiens, a bee 

 very difficult to separate from the common //. quadrinutatns, 

 is recorded by Dr. R. C. L. Perkins as occurring in Devon, 

 Oxford, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Monoctenxs juniperi, is identified 

 by Rev. F. D. Morice from specimens in the Coll. Univ. Camb. 

 taken hy Messrs. H. Scott and C. G. Lamb in Scotland, 1907. 

 Lepidoptera : Apparently the only new species recorded last year 

 was a micro-lepidopteron new to science, Scoparia vafra, which 

 is recorded by Mr. E. Meyrick, a specimen having been taken 

 some years ago, near Chester, and sent to him with other 

 insects for identification by Dr. H. Dobie of that town. 

 Neuroptera : No new species appear to have been recorded, but 

 I hear that Messrs. W. J. Lucas and G. T. Lyle have succeeded 

 in elucidating a very important part of the life-history of the 



