36 THE entomologist's record. 



The Ent. Mo. Macf. for November contains an interesting account 

 of the occurrence in some numbers of the Buprestid beetle Melanophila 

 acuminata, during the progress of a pine-wood fire at Crowthorne, 

 Berks, many specimens being captured even on the still smoking trunks, 

 by Messrs. W. E. Sharpe and Bedwell ; and Commander Walker gives 

 an account of the Butterflies of the Oxford district. 



The Ejit. Netrs for November has a note on an attack by a dragon- 

 fly larva on a water-snake, causing its death ; a statistical paper on 

 Protandry in Bees and lengthened period of flight by the females after 

 the males have disappeared ; and a discussion of the assertion that 

 Seasonal Dimorphism occurs in the females of certain species of Mealy 

 Bug (Coccidae) with a result pointing to a negative reply. 



The Naturalist has kept up its interesting contributions to natural 

 science very ably during the period of the war. The November num- 

 ber contains a continuation of the fully annotated list of the Spiders 

 of Yorkshire, by W. Falconer ; records of the occurrence of various 

 species of insects generally scarce in the northern counties, such as 

 Rumicia flilaeas, Gonepteryx rhaimii, Gicindela campestris, Nephodesme 

 {Sciaphila) sinuana, etc. ; and contributions to the discussion on Scent 

 Glands in Lepidoptera recently begun in its pages. 



In the Bull. Soc. ent. France for November, L. Demaison dis- 

 cusses the distribution of Saturnia pavonia, from the mountains in the 

 north of Europe to the Mediterranean Sea, from Skye in the Hebrides 

 to the summit of the Flegere, near Chamonix, and records an example 

 of the melanic form infumata, Newnham, which he points out was 

 figured many years ago by Engramelle (Sup., plate ii., fig. 178 i, k), 

 and also refers to fig. 178 I on the same plate, depicting an aberration 

 of the male with hindwings entirely of a bright orange. He also 

 names an aberration of Ennomos erosaria as ab. angulifera, in which 

 the two black oblique lines on the forewings, well separated on the 

 costa, are united to form a sharp angle before reaching the inner 

 margin. At the same time he points out that Engramelle figures an 

 aberration of this species with these lines quite obsolete as ab. uni- 

 coloria. 



In the same number, M. J. de Joannis contributes an article on 

 the presence in France of Orapholitha [Laspei/resia) leplastriana, 

 Curtis, an insect which some entomologists have doubted ever to occur 

 outside England, where it is confined to the neighbourhood of Dover. 

 Then follows a very complete history of the species from the observa- 

 tions of Stainton, Mann, Zeller, Merrin, Weston, Elisha, C. G. Bar- 

 rett, etc. Eecently it has been met with at Niort, and M. de Joannis 

 has received it from Italy (Fano) from Prof. Cecconi. In England 

 the species has only one generation, the imago occurring in July and 

 August, but in Italy there are two generations, in July and again in 

 September. 



In the Scottish Naturalist for November is an article by W. Evans, 

 on "Insects and other Terrestrial Invertebrates from the Bass Eock." 

 He gives a list of Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, etc., 

 recorded. There were two species of butterflies, Aglais urticae (dead), 

 and Pieris brassicae (one). Xylophasia monoylypJia {polyodon) was a 

 common visitor to the lantern, Charaeas yraminis were also in num- 

 bers. Odd specimens of about a dozen species of Noctuidae, plenty 



