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as I have no work on Neuroptera, and only knew the insects by 

 their popular name, I adopted Mr. McEae's appellation (Entom. 

 xvi. 235). However, on referring back to Mr. J. J. King's paper 

 (Entom. xv. 28), I found out my mistake. Which does Mr. 

 McEae really mean? — H. E. U. Bull; Foundry Lane, near 

 Southampton, January 2, 1884. 



REVIEW. 



Catalogue of British Hymenoptera (Aculeata). By Edward 

 Saunders, F.L.S. Colchester : W. H. Harwood. 1883. 



This is a synonymic list of British Aculeate Hymenoptera, 

 brought up to the present time in regard to recently added 

 species and synonymy. The name of Mr. Saunders is a sufficient 

 guarantee for the accuracy of the compilation, and to the enter- 

 prise of Mr. W. H. Harwood, of Colchester, in publishing this 

 indispensable list, students of the group are indebted. Although 

 a large number of British entomologists take more than a passing 

 interest in the bees and wasps of this country, the complication 

 of names has been hitherto such a detriment to their successful 

 study that this list will be hailed with gratification. Cannot we 

 persuade Mr. Saunders to add to the present boon a small and 

 handy manual of this section of the Hymenoptera ? Such a work 

 would be as great an incentive to workers in this division as was 

 Mr. Stainton's Manual to the Lepidoptera. — J. T. C. 



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William Buckler. — We regret to announce that Mr. Buckler 

 died on January 9th at Lumley House, Emsworth, Hants, from 

 a short attack of bronchitis, resulting from a slight cold, — caught, 

 we believe, on New Year's Day, — which exhibited no serious 

 symptoms until within two days of his death. Mr. Buckler was 

 in his seventieth year. For the last five and twenty years he had 

 almost entirely devoted his energies to delineating and describing 

 the larvae of our British Lepidoptera, reared from specimens 

 received from many correspondents. The descriptions have 



