160 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CURRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Continued from p. 139.) 



Bergrotb (3) describes several new myrmecopbil Rbyncbota ; 

 among tbe Pyrrbocoridse [Lygseidse auctt.] , Neohlissus paras- 

 sitaster, a new genus and species from Brazil allied to Blissus, 

 living in tbe nests of Soloiojisis gcminata (Fabr.)- Wasmann 

 states tbat tbe apboid appearance of tbe young larvas and the 

 investment of line yellow bairs of tbe adults seem to point to 

 a true guest-relation (myrmecoxeny) ; but Bergrotb notes tbat 

 Blissus, wbicb is not myrmecopbil, baa similar larva? and a 

 similar pilosity. In tbe Reduviidse is noted Enicoceplialus (or, 

 as Bergrotb spells it, " Henicoceplialas") braunsii, a new species 

 from Soutb Africa, wbicb lives in tbe nests of Rhoptromyrmex 

 transversinodis, Mayr, an ant very mucb smaller tban its visitor. 

 This is tbe first known myrmecopbyl Enicocepbaline, and as this 

 subfamily is insectivorous, the new form is probably myrmeco- 

 phagous. In tbe Miridse, Lissocapsiis wasmanni, a new genus 

 and species very near Systellonodis, Fieber. This is from Mada- 

 gascar, and lives in the nests of Cremastog aster ranavolonis, Forel. 

 Bergrotb also mentions the occurrence of Triphleps niger, Wolff, 

 in the nests of Lasius flavus in Germany. 



Alfken (4) gives lists and descriptions of tbe insects collected 

 by Schauinsland in the Bawaiian Isles, Laysan, New Zealand, 

 and Chatham Island, during 1896 and 1897. The double plate 

 contains six beautifully coloured figures of Pyrameis gonerilla and 

 itea [Lep.] and ten plain figures of Orthoptera. 



Turner (5) has commenced a revision of Australian Lepi- 

 doptera, beginning with the Notodontidse and Yponomeutidas ; in 

 these families seven genera and seventeen species are described 

 as new. 



The historian of the American Membracinae has now given 

 us [6] a monograph of tbe Australian forms ; fourteen genera 

 and thirty-two species are noted — surely a small proportion of 

 the entire membracine fauna of Australia. Some of the species 

 of Tragopa live in tbe ground in tbe nests of ants. 



Among other recent publications may be noted : — 



7. C. BoRNER : " Zur Klarung der Benigliederung der Atelo- 



ceren"(Zool.Anzeiger,xxvii. 226-43; text-figs. 1-5 (1904)): 

 a Survey of Limb Articulation in tbe Artbropoda. 



8. E. H. Sellards : "Discovery of Fossil Insects in the 



Permian of Kansas " (American Journ. Science (4) 16, 

 pp. 323-4 (Blattidte) (1903)). 



9. H. Gadeau db Kervillb : " L'accouplement des Forficu- 



lides" (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 85-7; 1 text-fig. (1903)). 



