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and the transverse keel is closely, somewhat irregiihuly, 

 lonjiitudinally striated. The transverse keel is slightly carved 

 backwards in the middle ; in front of the keel the segment is 

 strongly irregnlarly reticulated ; the reticulations are much 

 stronger, wider, and transverse at the apex ; between the 

 spines at their base is a stout curved keel; tlie spines are 

 large, margined behind, and rounded at the top. The upper 

 part of the propleuric is coarsely rugose, the rest bears stout, 

 sligiitly curved, longitudinal striations : the mesopleurse 

 coarsely aciculated and irregularly obliquely striated ; the 

 apex aciculated to near the bottom ; the extreme apex is 

 coarsely crenulated above. Mesosternum coarsely aciculated ; 

 the sides behind the lateral furrow coarsely striated ; the 

 central furrow is dec]) and crenulated ; the sides at its a})ex 

 obliquely striated. Wings hyaline, the areolet with its outer 

 nervure faint ; the recurrent nervure is received near its apex. 

 The four front legs are rufo-testaceous; the fore coxte pallid 

 yellow ; the hinder coxa3 and slightly moVe than the basal 

 half of the femora ferruginous ; the trochanters, the apex of 

 the femora broadly, the tibiae (except a white line near the 

 base), and the basal half of the metatarsus black ; the rest of 

 the tarsi white. Abdomen black; the apex of the petiole, of 

 the second segment, and the apical two segments white ; the 

 petiole smooth, shining, and glabrous, aciculated towards 

 the apex ; near the apex, reaching to the yellow band, is a 

 shallow depression, which is transverse at the apex. 



[To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Fauna, Flora, and Geology of the Clyde Area. Edited by G. F. 

 Scott Elliot, Malcom Laurie, and J. Barclay Muudocu. 

 Glasgow : published by the Local Committee for the Meeting of 

 the British Association, 1901, Pp. 1-567. 



Though prepared specially for the benefit of the members of the 

 British Association Meeting at Glasgow in 1901, the usefulness of 

 this handbook by no means ended with the dispersal of those for 

 whom it was designed ; on the contrary, it wiU doubtless Ion" 

 remain the standard work on this district, and might well serve as 

 a model to be imitated by the resident naturalists of every meetino-- 

 place of the Association. 



The number of contributors is considerable ; and whilst some 

 have given simply a list of names and localities, in systematic 

 order, others have prefaced their work with a short and often 

 exceedingly interesting introduction. Where necessary text-cuts 

 are introduced ; whilst at the eud of the work is a large bathy- 



