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regarded the occurrence of the species mentioned as unworthy of 

 special mention. That these species have only been observed in the 

 few northern localities from which reports have been received is 

 possible, but, I think, improbable. Perhaps someone in each of the 

 northern entomological centres will be good enough to communicate 

 whatever information he may be in a position to give touching the 

 question now raised. — Richard South; 96, Drakefield Road, Upper 

 Tooting, S.W. 



Eretmoptera, a new Dipterous Genus. — V. L. Kellogg describes 

 (1900, Biol. Bullet, i. 81-7) a new dipterous genus, Eretmoptera, from 

 tidal pools in California, which is allied to the Nematocera, but 

 apparently forms a new family. In both sexes the wings are strongly 

 narrowed, while the halteres have somewhat the appearance of simple 

 rudimentary wings. The antennae have six segments in the male, four 

 in the female. — G. W. Kirkaldy. 



The Insect Fauna of Hampshire. — Vol. i. of the ' History of 

 Hampshire,' one of a sumptuous series entitled "The Victoria History 

 of the Counties of England," was published last October. It contains 

 lists, and in some cases much useful information respecting localities, 

 &c., of the species of all orders of the Insecta known to occur in the 

 County of Hampshire. The editor of this division of the work is 

 Mr. Herbert Goss, who is responsible for the Macro section of the 

 Lepidoptera. The list of Deltoides, Pyralides, and Crambites has 

 been contributed by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher ; that of the Tortrices, 

 Tineae, and Pterophori by Mr. Percy M. Bright, with annotations by 

 Messrs. E. R. Bankes and W. H. B. Fletcher. Capt. Savile Reid and 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett have also assisted. The Lepidoptera take up 

 twenty-four of the fifty-four pages devoted to these lists of insects. 

 Other well-known authorities and specialists have furnished lists as 

 follows : — Orthoptera, Mr. Malcolm Burr ; Neuroptera and Tricho- 

 PTERA, Messrs. R. McLachlan, J. J. F. X. King, and Kenneth Morton; 

 Hybienoptera Aculeata, Mr. E. Saunders; Hymenoptera Phytophaga, 

 Miss Ethel F. Chawner ; Coleoptera, Rev. Canon Fowler and Mr. 

 J. J. Walker ; Diptera, Mr. F. C. Adams ; Hemiptera-Heteroptera, 

 Mr. E. Saunders; Hemiptera-Homoptera, Mr. J. Edwards. 



Local Scarcity of T^niocampa incerta, Hafn. — With reference to 

 Mr. F. M. B. Carr's enquiry {ante, p. 204), called forth by his ex- 

 perience during two seasons in the New Forest, as to whether 

 Tceniocampa incerta [instabilis] is at all local, I cannot say whether 

 it is entirely absent from any parts of the country, but in some, 

 at any rate, it is remarkably scarce. For many years I regularly 

 worked the sallow-bloom in this district, which is no great distance 

 from the New Forest, and shows a peculiarly close resemblance to it 

 in its insect fauna, but have only taken eight specimens of T. incerta, 

 all told! In 1892 I captured four examples of it, but in no other 

 season have I taken more than a solitary individual, and it was some 

 years before I ever met with it at all. T. incerta is hardly likely to be 

 altogether absent from the New Forest, but perhaps it is equally scarce 

 there : I have no list of New Forest Lepidoptera at hand to consult 

 on this point. — Eustace R. Bankes ; Norden, Corfe Castle, Dorset, 

 November 4th, 1900. 



