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attacked hy three other species of Chalcids as parasites. (8) A first 

 Report of the Trombidiidae mites of Minnesota, C. VV. Howard, known 

 as " chiggers," with seven plates of species and details ; and (9) Nearly 

 a hundred pages containing a Report of the Hymenoptera of Min- 

 nesota, F. L. Washburn, to which the three coloured plates belong, 

 and having in iiddition about a hundred figures of species in illustra- 

 tion of the different families and genera, with half a dozen very full 

 introductory plates of terms used in the descriptions. This last appears 

 to be a most useful nitroduction to the study of the indigenous species 

 in this hitherto but little-worked State. 



In the Rev. Mens. Naiaur, R. P. Longin Navas, S.J., is contributing 

 an annotated list of the insects, of "other orders" found in Belgium. 

 He has commenced in the June number with the Plecoptera and 

 Trichoptera. F. Derenne is publishing a list of the more striking 

 melanic forms of Belgian Lepidoptera, comparing them with the 

 melanic forms found in Britain. 



In the Ent. for June and July, G. T. Lyle contributes notes on the 

 British Braconidae (Hym.). He adds as species new to Britain: 

 (1) Rhnijas (jrandb, bred from larvte of AnipJupyra pyraviidea ; and (2) 

 R. ruijidosiis, bred' from larvae of Arallonche albovenosa ; as a species new 

 to science R. cantherius, bred from larvae of SemiotJusa littirata. F. V. 

 Theobald describes the following Aphides as new to science: — 1. Myzus 

 c/ei on wild avens, Geiuii urbanum, Kent. 2. Myzus mercurialis, on dog's 

 mercury, Mercurialis offi.cinalis, 1. of Wight. 3. Myzus fialiifoliuDi, on 

 bedstraw, Galium cruciatuiii, Kent, I. of Wight, and 4. AjyJds 

 abrotaniella on Artemisia abrotani, Cumberland. 



The first two" parts of the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. for 1919 contain 



I. " Butterfly Vision," by H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, v/ith five plates, 

 one of which, showing " a Tortoiseshell butterfly as it might be 

 supposed to appear to another of the same species," is coloured. 



II. " Synonymy and Types of certain genera of Hymenoptera," by 

 Prof. J. Chester Bradley, M.S., Ph.D. III. " A Migration of Yellow 

 Butterflies {Catopsilia statira) in Trinidad," by C. B. Williams, M.A., 

 with five plates. IV. " A Note on Bonelli's Tableau Synoptique," by 

 H. E. Andrews. V. "Notes on the Ancestry of the Diptera, Hemiptera, 

 and other insects related to the Neuroptera," by G. Chester Crampton, 

 Ph.D. VI. " On the types of Oriental Carabidae in the British 

 Museum, and in the Hope Department of the Oxford University 

 Mi-iseum," by H. E. Andrews. VII. "The British Species of Andrena 

 and Nomada," by Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, M.A., with five plates. In 

 the Proceedings the occurrence of a Californian " Plume " Platyptilia 

 {Amblyptilia) pica, Wslm., in Scotland is announced. The specimen 

 was beaten from juniper at Aviemore in September, 1918. It closely 

 resembles a variety of P. punctidactyla. There is a series of interesting 

 biological notes on Natal butterflies byC. N. Barker, communicated by 

 Prof. Poulton, who subsequently gave an account of certain "eccentric 

 movements of the hindwings " in Celastrina argiolus. 



In the Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. (1919), p. 162, is a Memoire containing 

 a description of a new type of Strepsiptera, including a new genus 

 Eoxenos, new to science, and the new species E. laboulbenei, by M. P. 

 de Peyerimhoff, with a plate. Like numerous other species in this 

 obscure order only the female has been met with. 



