IGO Bihliograpliical Notices. 



Heteropogon^ Loevv. 



Linn. Ent. ii. p. 488 (1847). 



Dasypogon boebius, Walker, is recorded from Australia. 

 The type is not to be found in the Brit. Mus. Coll. It 

 probably does not belong to this genus, in Trhich it is placed 

 in Kertesz's Cat. ; but, as stated above, Loew suggests it 

 may be a Bathypogon species. 



The following Walker species from unknown localities 

 also placed here by Kertesz do not belong to this genus, 

 having curved spines on fore tibiae, and the fourth posterior 

 cell is closed, in line with the transverse vein closing discal 

 cell ; they appear to belong to a genus near Deromyia : — 

 cegon, animetus, cerretanus, copreus, silanus, politus. Generi- 

 cally similar are ca7'vilius under OUgopogon in Kertesz's Cat., 

 and volcatius under Isopogon; they do not appear to be 

 from Australia. 



Dusypogon fossius, Walker, from unknown locality, is 

 exactly similar to specimens labelled the same from S. Africa, 

 and is evidently a South-African species; it has spines on 

 the fore tibia3. 



[To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



A Revision of the Ichneumonidae, based on the Collection in the 

 British Museum {Natural Histonj), ivith Descriptions of new 

 Genera and Species. Part I. Tribes Ophionides and Metop>iides. 

 By Claude Morley, P.Z.S., F.E.S. London : Printed by Order 

 of the Trustees of the British Museum. 8vo. 1912. Pp. xi, 88. 

 Coloured plate. 



Little was done to elucidate the collection of Ichneumon idse in the 

 British Museum since it was arranged by Frederick Smith in 1860 

 until Mr. Morley recently took up the work, and the pi-csent small 

 volume is published as a first instalment. It includes a list, gene- 

 rally with comments and often with full descriptions, of 198 species 

 of Ophionides and 33 Metopiides, and 5 genera and about 70 species 

 are described as new. The coloured plate is an admirably enlarged 

 diagram of the common and widely distributed Ophion hitcus, L., 

 illustrating its structure and neuration. W. F. K. 



