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including a Castnia, several species of Coleoptera not hitherto recorded 

 :as such, and representatives of other orders There are two plates of 

 illustrations. 



The arrangements for the Annual Congress of the S. Eastern Union 

 of Scientific Societies, which was to have taken place at Reading this 

 year, have fallen through, owing to the inability of the local authorities 

 to find suitable accommodation for the various activities of the meeting. 

 It has now been finally decided to hold the Congress in London under 

 the Presidency of Dr. Martin, who for some years has been the popular 

 and very successful Hon. Secretary of the Union. The headquarters 

 will be the rooms of the Linnean Society, which have been kindly lent 

 for the purpose by the Council. We understand that a most interesting 

 programme has already been arranged. Other Societies are lending 

 their assistance, includmg the Zoological Society. We hope that all 

 those who can be present will send in the small subscription asked, and 

 thus help to make the meeting as successful in numbers and finance as 

 it usually is in its main objecd, the spread of scientific knowledge. 



In the Knt. Mn. Mat:/, for February Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, in a ci'itical 

 examination of the Kirby collection of British Bees, describes a species 

 of Sphecodes hitherto unrecorded from Britain, viz., Sphecodes scahricollu. 

 A Separatum from the Proceed. U.S. Nat. Miis., entitled " A Generic 

 Synopsis of the Coccinellid Larv» in the U.S. Nat. Mus., with a 

 description of the larva of Hyperaspis hinotata,'" by Adam Boving 

 contains four admirable plates of detail structure. 



The " Popular and Practical " feature of the Can. Eat. for February 

 is devoted to an account of the Wolf Spider, aLycosid. A plate gives 

 a front face view of this ferocious looking spider, a truly ''fearsome 

 beastie." The writer was able easily to manipulate the subject for 

 taking its portrait, for he took the specimen from a predacious wasp, who 

 had captured and paralysed it with poison and was dragging it to her cell. 

 Other items of interest in the Can. Ent. for February are (1) the first 

 instalment of "Insects in Ocean Drift," by H. M. Parshley, in which 

 the author records a large number of Hemiptera-Heteroptera met with 

 by him in his summer holidays at Beach Blufi", Mass. (2) A most 

 interesting series of " Observations on the Light-emission of American 

 Lampyridae," by F. A. McDermott, supplementary to the four papers 

 on the subject previously contributed. (3) A continuance of the 

 Geometrid Notes by L. W. Swett, in which he deals with a portion of 

 the genus DysstroDia, commencing with Dysstroma citrata (trimcata), 

 and its forms ab. pimcttun-notata, ab. iiiirnanata, ab. aimpliciata, ab. 

 insolida, ab. rnfihrunnea, var. hrunneata, etc., and shows that mulleolata 

 is a true species and not a form of citrata. 



The several parts of the Ent. Tidskrift for 1916 are exceptionally 

 interesting to lepidopterists. Among other matters they contain (1), 

 the completion of a long " Contribution to the knowledge of the 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of the Kronoberg district," by Alb. Tulloren. 

 This section. deals with the Pyrales, Tortrices and Tinea. Most oi our 

 commoner British species seem to be found in this district of Southern 

 Sweden. We wonder what the " Tortyi.c 'waJdbomiana " is. Peronea 

 cristana is apparently wanting, and (Jydia (Carpocapsa) powonella is 

 present. Cossaa Liyniperda, Aegeria tipidiforiiiis, Alucita {Orneodes) 

 hen-adactyla, four species of the genus Gelechia, two of Coleophora, C. 

 fuscedinella and C. niyricella, Hypojiomeuta jiadellas and H. cognatellus, 



