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in June 1899, and L. consimile, a species hitherto confounded with 
L. mollis. 
Hntomology in the Naturalist for August consists of a preliminary 
List of Cumberland Hemiptera- Heteroptera by Mr. F. H. Day, and notes 
on the Coleoptera observed in Yorkshire during the year 1915. 
* The Report of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society for 
the two years 1914 and 1915 has recently been issued. It contains the 
Reports of the Council, Proceedings at Meetings and a further instal- 
ment of the annotated List of Lepidoptera of the District compiled by 
Mr. W. Mansbridge, F.E.S. This seems a very useful collection of © 
records and it is a pity that the nomenclature is not more up to date. 
Both Rothschild and Jordan and the late J. W. Tutt have dealt much 
in detail with these names, and their conclusions have such good bases 
that one feels it 1s due to the coming generation of workers to give 
them a more or less correct start. 
The Bolletino Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agraria, Portici, ltaly, seems to 
increase in bulk each year, and the matter, usually the account and 
results of special investigations, is of considerable economic value. 
Prof. F. Silvestri has contributed articles on the Zoraptera, the 
Diplopoda, and the structure of the ovum of a parasitic Hymenopteron. 
G. Sciara has some notes on Carpocapsa pomonella, or as we should call 
it Cydia pomonella (see Rep. Nomen. Com., 1916). R. Sarra writes 
Biological Observations on the damage done to the fruit of the almond 
tree by the larvae of the Lepidopteron Anarsia lineatella. G. Martello 
has an article on the Lepidoptera of the genera Zelleria and Glyphodes, 
which attack the olive. While C. Emery, G. Grand, and BR. G. Mercet 
have contributed respectively articles on the ants, the Chalcids, and the 
Mutillids obtained by Prof. Silvestri during his journey in north-east 
Africa. 
In the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lon., part 1 for 1916, Mr. Champion 
describes alargenumber of newor little-known Xylophilidae (Coleoptera) 
with two plates. Messrs. J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot describe and figure 
a number of New forms of Lepidoptera from Biak and the Shouten 
Islands, N. of New Guinea. The paper is illustrated by four coloured 
plates. Mr. Durrant adds the description of a new Tineid sent from 
Biak with the collection described. Messrs. C. B. Williams and P. A. 
Buxton give a series of notes on the Biology of the Mantis, Sphodromantis 
guttata, with four plates. Dr. Eltringham publishes his paper ‘“‘ On 
Specific and Mimetic Relationships in the genus Heliconius,” with two 
coloured and five other plates, to which Mr. W. J. Kaye adds a critical 
reply. The remaining paper is an encyclopedic investigation of the 
‘« Pairing of the Plebeiid Blue Butterflies” by Dr. T. A. Chapman, with 
no less than forty-five plates of details. The Report of the Pro- 
ceedings at the first three meetings of the year are very full and contain 
many original notes occupying more than forty-eight pages. This 
makes most interesting reading. 
FW EVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
‘‘ GYNANDROMORPHISM AND KinpRED Proptems,” by E. A. Cockayne, 
M.D., M.R.C.P., and F.B.S., 
This, a separatum from the Journal of Genetics, has been lying on 
our table for some time. To do adequate justice to such an important 
