296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



found at Zermatt in July, 1909, suspended in a bush of alpine-rose 

 {BJiododendron) . — Captain Cardew, an extremely fine confluent ex- 

 ample of Anthrocera vicia {meliloti), taken in July in the New Forest. 

 — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a series of Epinephele jurtina from Algeria, having 

 the females of the extremely large and bright form, var. fortimata. — 

 Mr. Edwards, a box of Satyrinse, including a series of the extremely 

 dimorphic species, Heteronympha merope, from Australia. — Mr. Enoch, 

 living specimens of the egg-parasites, Mymarida?, taken in Eichmond 

 Park. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The Dermaptera {Eanoigs) of the United States National Museum. 

 (Prom Proc. of the U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. 38, pp. 443-467.) By 



M. Bttrr. DSp. Wnshincffon 1910 



RECENT LITERATURE, 



National Musei 



.By 

 M. Burr, D.Sc. Washington. 1910. 

 A VALUABLE paper to students of the Orthoptera in general and 

 Earwigs in particular. 



W. J. Lucas. 



Experiments on the Generation of Insects. A translation, by Mab 

 BiGELOw, of Francesco Eedi's Italian Treatise of 1688. 

 Chicago. 1909. 

 We are pleased to see this translation of one of the works of the 

 older school of naturalists, and hope that others of a similar kind 

 will follow. The period when Redi wTote marks the commencement 

 of a new epoch in the history of biology. The theory of " spontaneous 

 generation " was beginning to be discredited, and Redi was one of 

 those who looked with favour on the dictum, "omne vivum ex ovo." 

 He, however, stands out pre-eminent at this early date, in that he put 

 to the test of experiment the theory he advocated. In the main, the 

 truth of this dictum was borne out by his experiments, though he 

 was led to waver in the matter of gall-insects. If somewhat crude, 

 most of the numerous large woodcuts are singularly suggestive of 

 what they are intended to portray. 



W. J. L. 



The Plume-Moths of Ceylon. Part ii. By T. B. Fletcher, R.N., 

 F.E.S., F.Z.S. (Reprinted from ' SpoHa Zeylanica,' vol. vi. 

 part xxiv., May, 1910.) 



The first part (pp. 39, five plates and a map) of this important 

 work appeared in March, 1909. It treated of the Pterophoridas, 

 thirty-seven species of which were then known to occur in Ceylon. 



In the part now under notice (pp. 22 and two plates) the Orneo- 

 didae are discussed. Twelve of the thirteen species belonging to this 

 group found in Ceylon are referred to the genus Orneodes, Latr. ; but 

 the author remarks that two of these — brachyptera, Meyr., and 

 microscopica, n. s. — present structural characters upon which new 

 genera might be founded. 



The plates are admirable, and all but two of the species dealt 

 with in the text are figured thereon. Diagrams of wing structure, in 

 the case of one species not portrayed on the plate, are given in the 

 text; and Triscmdecia dactyloptera is represented by a cut. 



