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and contributes a plate with figures of portions of the two cases ; Dr. 

 Perkins discusses the Biology of the uncommon bee Andrena hucephala 

 and its very local parasite Noinada bucephalae, from Devonshire; Mr. R. 

 S. Bagnall describes a new species of Cynipid from County Durham, 

 Aylax taraxaci, hitherto only found in Central Europe and N. America; 

 Mr. E. E. Green continues his "Observation on British Coccidae," and 

 describes the new species Lecanium zebrinum and L. transvittatum, both 

 from birch at Camberley, Lecanopsis hutleri, from grass at Eoyston ; 

 and the new sub-sp. crudum of Lecaniiun peraicae. 



The Scottish Naturalist for September contains a very useful article 

 by L. H. Hine, " Some Notes on Microscopical Preparation of Insects," 

 given in eleven pages of practical detail. 



In the Ball. Soc. ent. France for July Dr^ Villeneuve announces a 

 teratological example of the Dipteron, Trixa oestroidea, in which the 

 head is that of a female but the genitalia are those of a male, and he 

 refers to the Feiiille des Jeunes Natm-alistes, 1912, pp. 111-113 where he 

 has collected records of similar examples, stated to be not infrequent in 

 the Diptera ; Dr. Verity contributes notes on " Some Races of Zygaena 

 in Sicily and Calabria," describing a new form of Z. lonicerae under the 

 name of trinacria from Lupo, south of Palermo ; and M. R. Decary 

 gives a list of the times of emergence of various species of Lepidoptera 

 in addition to species in several previous lists of records which he 

 mentions. 



Three Papers on Hymenoptera have recently come to us from the 

 "Proceedings of the United States National Museum." (1) A Revision 

 of the Hymenopterous Insects of the Tribe Cremastini of America N. 

 of Mexico. (2) New Species of reared Ichneumon flies, etc., and (8) 

 Notes and Descriptions of Miscellaneous Chalcid-fiies, with (4) N. 

 American Collembolous Insects of the subfamily Onychiurinae, the last 

 with several plates. 



In the Canadian Ent. for September H. B. Weiss gives a somewhat 

 facetious account of the " Undesirable Insect Immigration into New 

 Jersey," giving details of the arrival of the Mole Cricket, Gryllotalpa 

 gryllotalpa, the Large Cockroach, Blaherus discoidalis, the Hemipteron, 

 Stephanitis pyrioides on the azalea, and the tropical Weevil, Choliis 

 forbesii on orchid bulbs ; P. A. Fenton, studies on the Life-histories of 

 two soft scale insect pests, Lecanium corni and Physokermes piceae, with 

 two plates, the former known as the " plum scale," attacking a 

 large number of trees, and the latter attacking the spruce, Picea abies ; 

 and W. J. Chamberlain contributes an " Annotated List of the Scolytid 

 Beetles of Oregon." 



Dr. Chapman contributes two papers to the October number of the 

 E7it. Mo. Mag. (1) Injury to a Pupa and Malformation of the resultant 

 Imago, and (2) Notes on the Larvas of Sawflies, Rhadinoceraca micajis 

 and Phymatocera aterrima, with several plates of figures ; Mr. R. S. 

 Bagnall announces another Cynipid new to Britain, Aylax royenhnferi, 

 from near Sunderland. 



The " Daily Mail " recently contained the following paragraph. 

 " Rare Butterflies in Flocks. — A remarkable spectacle may be 

 seen now in County Roscommon, and indeed, throughout Central 

 Ireland, where myriads of rare and beautiful lepidoptera are disporting 

 themselves. The lovely peacock butterfly is the most numerous, and 

 clusters of this species may be seen on a single plant. They can be 

 taken in the hand or plucked hke fruit from a tree. The swallow-tail, 



