120 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club for the 



Year 1906. Edited by 'Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S. Vol iii. 



Part iv. Pp. i.-viii., 247-313. Hull : Brown & Sou, Ltd., 1907. 



" Hymenoptera of the East Biding of Yorkshire." By W. Deni- 



son Boebuck, F.L.S. ; and " Bygone Hull Naturalists, iii. — William 



Spence," with portrait, are the chief entomological items. 



Christ's Hospital, West Horsham, Natural History Society : Fourth 

 Annual Report fur the Year 1906. Pp. 34. 

 We are pleased to see that entomology is in favour among the 

 members of this Society. Since its inauguration in 1903 the lepido- 

 pterists of the entomological section have been more and more active 

 during each season. Tbe number of species of Lepidoptera taken in 

 1906 exeeds the total of the previous year by thirteen, and is sixty- 

 nine species ahead of the tale of 1903. Among the more notable 

 insects obtained last year were Deilephila livornica, " found by W. P. 

 Nason on June 6th in Thornton A Changing-room " ; Chcerocampa 

 celerio, " picked up by H. F. Clark, on the asphalte behind Coleridge, 

 on October 16th"; and C. nerii, "found on September 6th, near 

 Fulford's, by a man who, while engaged in trimming a hedge, knocked 

 it out and then ' put his foot on it to keep it quiet.' " Of Heliothis 

 peltigera, " one specimen was found by Willey, in the Cloisters, on 

 May 31st," and the captor of this species has also recorded an example 

 of Acidalia rusticata, taken on July 27th ; previous Sussex localities 

 for this insect are Lewes and Brighton. 



There are four plates, reproduced from photographs, and one of 

 these illustrates the three Sphingid moths just mentioned. 



Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. Part 2, Pp. 37-78. 

 Honolulu, December 1st, 1906. 



Contains an account of the Proceedings at the six meetings held 

 January 4th, 1906 — June 7th, 1906, together with the Presidential 

 Address and the following papers : — " A New Method of Belaxing and 

 Cleaning Specimens," by Mr. B. C. L. Perkins ; " Life-history Notes 

 and Observations on Three Common Moths," by Mr. 0. H. Swezey ; 

 " Notes on Hawaiian Wasps, with Descriptions of New Species," by 

 Mr. B. C. L. Perkins (abstract) ; " Note on Tomocera, a Genus of Scale- 

 bug Parasites, with Description of a New Species," by Mr. B. C. L. 

 Perkins. 



In bis address the President gave "an account of the endemic 

 insects that are found on that part of the Honolulu Mountains known 

 as Tantalus, and its adjacent slopes." 



The three species of moths mentioned in Mr. Swezey' s paper are 

 Plusia chalcites, Esp., Spodoptera (Caradrina) exigua, Hiibn., and 

 S. mauntia, Boisd. Beferring to S. exigua, the author states : " It is 

 not nearly so common on these Islands as S. mauritia. I have found 

 it on only two occasions. The first was at Pahala, Hawaii, December 

 5th, 1905. A large number of larvaa of all sizes were found feeding 

 on castor-oil plants. Several batches of eggs were also found." 



