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more than the others, the penultimate internodes are longer 
than the tarsi, especially those of the last leg, which are about 
double the length of the tarsus. The length of the mite is 
1.60 mm., the length of the first leg 1.62 mm. Fig. I represents 
the mouth organs much enlarged. These when extended 
measure about 0.39 mm. The body is like a sac, and can be 
wrinkled at the will of the creature, which often causes the 
scales to appear irregularly placed. Fig. K shows the scales at 
the edge of the body, and L those on the legs ; the proboscis is 
retractile, but not to the same extent asin Saris. To appreciate 
the mite properly it must be seen alive, as well as mounted and 
dissected. 
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Devonshire— 
Entomology. A. Constable & Co. 
The Victoria Histories are apparently being issued rather more rapidly 
than they were at first, and now we have before us the Entomological 
portion of one of the three of our largest English Counties, Devonshire. 
We confess to a little disappointment in going through it, perhaps because 
Devonshire has for some years been one of our own favourite collecting 
grounds, and we cannot help thinking that more might have been made of 
it. No doubt nearly all the recorded species in all orders are included in the 
lists, but some of them, as the Orthoptera, show a want of acquaintance 
with recent literature, which otherwise should have enabled the compiler 
not only to add considerably more localities, but to indicate a number of 
species as common or even abundant, which he evidently considers as 
scarce. Then in the lists of Neuroptera, Trichoptera, Hemiptera, and 
Aphididz, no localities whatever are given; and even in such comparatively 
popular orders as the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, most of the species are 
also without localities, or any indication as to their distribution. Personally, 
we regard such lists of species, in a large county like Devonshire, as little 
better than useless. Indeed, in the list of Neuroptera, old records are given 
of species which are not now regarded as British at all, and which probably 
never did form part of our fauna. The list of Lepidoptera is the most satis- 
factory, but even it leaves a good deal to be desired. We are specially 
surprised to find no mention made of the specimen of Ophiusa stolida taken 
by Mr. J. Jager on the South Devon Coast, September 23rd, 1903. This very 
striking and beautiful noctua, though the first, and as yet the only one 
taken in Britain, was in such beautiful condition as to indicate that it had 
been bred on the spot where captured, its food plant being abundant there. 
There is no excuse whatever for its exclusion ; it is, in fact, far more entitled 
to be regarded as a native than is Cucudlia abrotani, which the author in- 
cludes in the list. This portion too has been badly edited. Some of the 
records have been incorrectly copied, and in one case a species (Crambus 
uliginosellus) is included, as recorded by ourselves, as having been captured 
by Mr. D'Orville. We know absolutely nothing of the circumstance ! 
Errors in spelfing are plentiful, and evidently the proof sheets have been 
carelessly read. The part has been edited by Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 
and the following specialists are responsible for the compilation of the lists : 
Coleoptera, the Rev. Canon W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S.; Lepidoptera, the 
late Mr. C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. ; Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and 
Aphidide, Mr. G. C. Bignell, F.E.S.; Neuroptera and Trichoptera, Mr. 
C. A. Briggs, F.E.S. ; and the Diptera, Mr. Ernest E. Austen.—G.T. P. 
1907 February I. 
