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Mg., Sapromyza longiseta, Lw., (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 87), and 

 Phora pubericornis, n. sp., which was taken at Murrock Glen 

 in September, 1907 (" E. M. M.," xliv, p. 12). Mr. Hugh 

 Scott adds Pipunculus mclanostolus, Becker, of which he 

 found the small dark puparium in Epping Forest, in March, 

 1907 (" E. M. M.," xliv, p. 9). 



Hemiptera. — Mr. E. A. Butler announces the addition of 

 the handsome species Idiocerus scurra, Germ., of which he 

 took specimens on some Lombardy poplars at Crouch End 

 in September last (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 245). Mr. Hugh 

 A. Saunders adds Anthocoris limbatus, Fieb., which he 

 obtained, also in September last, by beating sallow, near 

 Woking (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 233). Mr. G. C. Champion 

 indentifies Pachycolem rufesccns, Sahib., a genus and species 

 not hitherto found in Britain, from a specimen taken by Mr. 

 Philip de la Garde in Devonshire (" E. M. M.," xliv, p. 8). 



Hymenoptera. — Mr. Edward Saunders is responsible for 

 the introduction of the bee, Halictus brcvicornis, Schrank, to 

 the British list under somewhat interesting circumstances. 

 It appears that he met with the species in Jersey some 

 years ago, and has been on the look-out for it in this country 

 since, but it was not until the summer of 1906 that he met 

 with it near Christchurch, Hants. At about the same time 

 Major Nurse also took the species at Eastbourne (" E. M. M.," 

 xliii, p. 40). Two Ichneumons are added by Mr. Claude 

 Morley on the strength of single specimens, viz. Mesostcnus 

 transfuga, Grav., and Adelognathus brcvicornis, Holmgr. 

 ("E. M. M.," xliii, pp. 273-4). 



Lepidoptera. — Gelcchia strcliciclla, H.-S., is the only 

 addition. It was taken by Mr. C. T. Cruttwell in June, 

 1905, near Aviemore, among heather that had been burnt 

 the previous year, and identified by Mr. Eustace R. Bankes 

 (" E. M. M.," xliii, pp. 235-6). Hcllcnsia (Lcioptilus) carpho- 

 dactyla, Hb., is reinstated in the British list on the authority 

 of specimens taken by Mr. Purdey at Folkestone (" Ent. 

 Record," xix, pp. 78-9). 



Neuroptera. — Mr. K. J. Morton is responsible for the 

 only two additions, viz. Nemoura marginata, Pict., and N . 

 standfussi, Ris. (" E. M. M.," xliii, p. 109). 



Thysanoptera. — Mr. Richard S. Bagnall, in an article on 

 the " British Thrips," enumerates nearly a dozen species that 

 appear to be new to the British lists, at least one of them 

 being also new to science (" E. M. M.," xliv, pp. 3-7). 



The books of the year, dealing in one way and another 

 with natural history subjects, are so numerous that even to 



