Geological Society, IGl 



liecords of the Indian Museum. {^A Journcd of Indian Zoology.) 

 Vol. iv. no. X. Issued March 30th, 1912. Annotated Catalogue 

 of Oriental Culicidas. Supplement. By E. Brunetti. Calcutta, 

 i912. Pp. 403-51G. 



Mr. Beunetti's " Annotated Catalogue of Oriental Culicidae" was 

 ]>ublished in 1907 in the ' Kecords of the Indian Museum,' i. 

 ])[). 247-377 ; and a vast amount of fresh material has now accumu- 

 lated, which is exhaustively discussed and criticized in the present 

 Supplement. The " Additions to the List of Literature " (pp. 411- 

 413) alone contain 57 items, many of these being works of primary 

 importance. It is impossible for us to do more here than direct the 

 attention of dipterists to this most important publication. 



W. F. K. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 1st, 1912.— Dr. Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



' Insect-Remains from the Midland and South-Eastern Coal- 

 fields.' By Herbert Bolton, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Director of the 

 Bristol Museum. 



The writer describes a series of three insect-wings obtained by 

 Dr. L. Moysey, F.G.S., from the Shipley Clay-pit near Ilkeston 

 (Derbyshire), and a blattoid wing, and three fragments from the 

 borings of the Kent Coal Concessions Company, Ltd., in East Kent. 



The first series of insect-wings occur in greyish-brown ironstone 

 nodules, which lie in bands in a yellow clay about 30 or 40 feet 

 below the Top Hard Coal. 



The East Kent insect-remains occur in core shales, the horizon 

 of which is not yet determined. 



The wings obtained by Dr. Moysey are not referable to any 

 known families. Three new families are formed to contain them, 

 one of which is nearly related to the Dictyoneuridae with some 

 suggestion of the family Heliolidae. A second new family is allied 



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