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.1893 near Plymouth. There is a handsome coloured plate which 
illustrates this species and also the wonderful protective resemblance 
of the Coleopteron, Dorytomus tortriv, to the husks of the leaf buds 
persistent on the stalks of its food plant Populus tremula. Mr. K. J. 
Morton gives an account of the ‘- Neuroptera (Linneus), from Inverness- 
shire.” A teratological specimen cf Anomala aenea, in which the 
external claw on the intermediate and posterior legs of the left side 
was bifid for a third of its length, was announced by Mr. G. B. Walsh. 
The May number of the /ntomological News contains a short article 
on the completion of the great work on the Natural History of Central 
America, the Bioloyia Centrali-Americana, and gives fine portraits of its 
Founders and Editors, Dr. S$. Ducane Godman,.and the late Mr. 
Osbert Salvin. There is an interesting note by Prof. H. Skinner on 
“The Genus Parnassius in America,’ with a plate of some of the 
named forms of the four species indigenous to N. America, P. clodius, 
~ BP. smintheus, P. nomion, and P. eversmanni. In discussing the variation 
of these “ very plastic” species, the writer asks for much more informa- 
tion with exact data, and he adds a list of the references to these 
species since the publication of his Syn. Cat. of N. Am. Ithop., in 1904. 
An article by M. Hebard would probably be of much interest to Dr. 
Burr as it deals with “ Certain Features found in the Genus Panchlora 
(Blattidae).” A. Kurat gives notes on about 40 species of the Noctuid 
genus Papaipema allied to our Gortyna. At the time of issue of 
Dyar’s List N. A. Lep. (1902), only some 24 species were recognised. 
In the Canadian Entomologist for May, Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod 
dealing with the Heath Collection which has been acquired by the 
Manitoba Government, very strongly criticized not only its condition, 
but remarks on the “ culpably careless’? way in which the identification 
of species was made. It appears that for these determinations Heath 
relied almost exclusively upon the identification of the late J. B. Smith, 
concerning whose judgment Mr. Wolley Dod speaks very strongly. 
“In my own experience in my earlier collecting days in the West, I 
not infrequently found that if I sent Smith specimens of a species— 
it might be of a well-known and not very variable species either— 
twice or three times he would apply a different and very distinct name 
to it each time.”” ‘This opinion is supported by detailed references to 
the collection in question. 
We learn from the Berkshire Chronicle that our colleague, Mr. 
J. R. le B. Tomlin has been daily giving of his spare time to the work 
of registration from October last. ven up to the present time he has 
to keep in touch with the matters concerning it. We understand that 
this year he is the President of the London Malacological Society. 
Mr. R. 8. Bagnail has been engaged in munition work for many 
months now. He writes us that his brother, Capt. C. L. Bagnall, has 
been awarded the Military Cross after a varied experience of fifteen 
months at the front. 
Three works issued by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 
U.S.A., have recently reached us. The ‘“ Revision of the Parasitic 
Hymenopterous Insects of the Genus Aphycus, Mayr., with notice of 
some related genera,’ by P. H. Timberlake, consisting of 80 pages and 
6 plates, contains re-descriptions of many species with the re-arrange- 
ment. ‘I'he ‘* North American Collembolous Insects of the subfamilies 
Achorutinae, Neanurinae, and Podurinae,” by J. \WV. Folsom, consisting 
