80 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ichne2C7nonologia Britannica, Hi. The Ichneumons of Great Britai7i ; 

 a DescrijJtive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species 

 indigenous to the British Isles, together with notes as to Classi- 

 fication, Localities, Habitats, Hosts, dc. By Claude Moeley, 

 F.E.S. Pp. i-xvi, 1-328. H. & W. Brown, 20, Fulham Eoad, 

 London, S.W. 1908. 

 The third volume of Mr. Morley's valuable work on our parasitic 

 flies was published at the end of November last ; it deals with the 

 third great subfamily, the Pimplinae, which, as the author states, is 

 probably better known than any of the others on account of the 

 large size and interesting economy of many of the species belonging 

 to it. Two hundred and eleven species are included in the sub- 

 family, and these are divided up into the following five tribes : — 



Xoridides (8 genera, 15 species) ; Pimplides (12 genera, 106 

 species) ; Lissonotides (9 genera, 62 species) ; Acaenitides (8 genera, 

 13 species) ; and Banchides (2 genera, 15 species). 



The Xoridides prey chiefly on wood-feeding Coleoptera and 

 Hymenoptera. The majority of the Pimplides affect lepidopterous 

 or hymenopterous larvae— at least one attacks the nest of the mason 

 wasp, and a few destroy spiders or their eggs. Lissonotides are 

 mainly associated with Lepidoptera, and rarely with Coleoptera. Of 

 the Acasnitides the hosts are but little known, and so far as has been 

 ascertained seem to be parasitic,- as are the Banchides, on Lepido- 

 ptera. 



The present volume is in every way quite up to the standard 

 of the first one, which we had the pleasure of noticing some five 

 years ago (Entom. xxxvii. p. 52). As we then remarked, parasitical 

 flies are well known to the rearer of Lepidoptera. How few of us, 

 however, seem to recognize the possibility of the destroyer of our 

 hopes being some rare or little-known species of ichneumon. 



Transactio7is of the Natural History Society of Northumberlaiid, 



Dwham, and Newcastle-u])on-Tyne. (New Series.) Vol. iii, 



part i. Pp. 1-222, and i-xxvii. London: Williams & Norgate. 



Newcastle : Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Ltd. 1908. 



The part contains, among other papers of interest, two upon 



entomological subjects. One of these, by Eichard S. Bagnall, treats 



of new Genera and Species of Thysanoptera; it occupies pp. 183-217, 



and is accompanied by two well executed plates. The other is part 



ii. of a paper entitled " Catalogue of Butterflies collected in Burmah," 



by Lt.-Col. C. H. E. Adamson (pp. 116-148). A paper " On some 



Eare Arachnids captured during 1907," by A. Eandell Jackson, M.B., 



may also be mentioned. 



Twelfth Eeport of the State Entomologist of Minnesota for the Years 

 1907-1908. By F. L. Washburn. Pp. i-x, and 1-205. 

 Deals with numerous insect pests, and the methods employed to 

 check their ravages. 



