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City of London Entomological Society. — February 1th, 1911. 

 — Mr. Chas. H. Williams was elected to membership. — Mr. S. J. Bell 

 exhibited a series of Anticlea rubidata, all of bright red form, bred 

 from Isle of Wight ova. — Mr. G. Brooks, a very dark brown Smerinthus 

 'populi, Barrett, 1910. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a series of Malacosoma 

 castrensis, from Essex coast, including several unicolorous specimens. 

 — Mr. V. E. Shaw, Noctua augur, var. omega, Finchley, June 28th, 

 1910, mentioned in Tutt's 'British Noctuae,' &c., as a very rare form. 

 — Mr. L. W. Newman stated that osier stumps collected for Trochilium 

 hemheciformis were found to contain both full fed and young larvae : 

 the stumps being kept on the concrete floor of a hothouse during the 

 winter, the young larvae migrated from the small to the larger stems, 

 fed up, and pupated. Mr. Newman also drew attention to the fact 

 that, while larvae of Mgeria culiciformis pupate head upwards in the 

 stumps of birch, when feeding in year-old stems they pupate head 

 downwards above the emergence cap. 



Fehruary 21st, 1911. — Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited sticks show- 

 ing borings of T. hemheciformis in both living and dead wood, also 

 sticks containing larvae of musk-beetle which feed side by side with 

 T. hemheciformis, and display similar habits. — S. J. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Vol. iv. No. 3, 

 Dec. 20th, 1910; No. 4, March 10th, 1911. University Press, 

 Liverpool. 

 These fine periodicals deal but little with entomology pure and 

 simple, being mainly taken up with important papers on " Sleeping- 

 Sickness " and other tropical diseases, mainly due to the operation of 

 insects. The last paper of each number (in both cases by R. New- 

 stead and H. F. Carter) is devoted to the description of new genera 

 and species of mosquitoes. These are well illustrated, and should 

 appeal to readers of the ' Entomologist ' who study the Diptera. 

 There is also a paper on Glossina by R. Newstead in No. 3. 



W. J. Lucas. 



071 some Neiu Species of Leaf-hopper {Perhinsiella) on Sugar Cane. 

 By F. Mum (Bulletin No. 9, Entomological Series. Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Association). Pp. 1-14, five figures in text. 

 Honolulu, 1910. 

 Of the thirteen species of Perkinsiella referred to, eight are de- 

 scribed as new. The author remarks that the species may be sepa- 

 rated by superficial characters as tabulated, but that the males are 

 best distinguished by the genitalia. 



Obituary. — We have heard, with very great regret, that our valued 

 correspondent, Mr. W. A. Rollason, died on April 17th last. 



