718 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
epipsodea, KH. disa, Brenthis astarte, and many other good insects were 
met with. Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod contributes the first part of a long 
detailed and critical article on the recently published ‘“‘ Check List of 
Lepidoptera of Boreal America,’ by Barnes and McDunnough, ‘“ Geo- 
metrid Notes’ are continued by L. W. Swett, and deals with the genus 
Xanthorhoé, describing three new species. Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell 
discusses the ‘‘ Bee-genus Brachynomada,”’ and describes a new species 
from the Argentine. 
The Jrish Naturalist for January contains more Entomology than 
usual. The Rev. W. F. Johnson gives a “ List of Aculeate Hymen- 
optera from the Counties of Armagh and Donegal,” and regrets that 
records of such have hitherto been so scanty. Mr. Thos. Greer writes 
‘‘ Notes on the Lepidoptera of Kast Tyrone in 1917.” Mr. W.H. 
Workman discusses the great increase of Butterflies and Moths in 
Ireland during the past summer. Our colleague, the Rev. C. R.N. 
Burrows acknowledges help with his Psychid investigations and asks 
for more. Messrs. W. W. Flemyng and J. N. Halbert discuss the 
occurrence of a living’specimen of Ayrius convolvuli having been 
attacked*by a Dipteron. The moth was captured at Inchicore, Dublin, 
in September, 1916, and shortly afterwards no less than 76 examples 
of Phora rufipes (?) emerged from it while still alive. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for January Mr. D. Sharp continues his 
“‘ Studies in Rhyncophora,” dealing in this paper with the British Red 
Apions, in the course of which he proposes a new genus, Hrythrapion, 
which he describes, and also describes three new species as British, 
viz., Mrythrapion desideratum, differentiated from HF. cruentatum, EH. 
fraudator, very close to Lf. frumentarium, and EH. brachypterum doubt- 
fully differentiated also from the last species. Dr. Chapman in the 
same number gives further observations on the sawflies, Cladius vimi- 
nalis and Trichiosoma tibiale, their egglaying and emergence from 
cocoon respectively. 
The Naturalist for January contains the “ Annual Report of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union” for 1917. The Report of the Entomo- 
logical Section consists of more than three pages. Reference is made 
to the extraordinary abundance of insects; many species generally 
scarce in the North, such as Vanessa io, have occurred in numbers. 
Huvanessa antiopa and Agrius convolvult are among the records; of the 
former two were taken and of the latter a fair nnmber. Considerable 
attention has been paid to the Hymenoptera. 
In the January number of the Antomologist Mr. W. G. Sheldon 
concludes his observations on Peronea cristana, the Messrs. HK. and H. 
Drabble give Notes on the Diptera of Derbyshire, and Mr. J. W. H. 
Harrison, D.Sc., contributes a series of notes and observations on the 
rarer species of Hemiptera- Heteroptera in the North-Hastern Counties. 
| Our colleague, Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, during the year 1916, 
occupied the Presidential chair of the Malacological Society of Great 
Britain, and his Address to the Society at their Annual Meeting 
reached us a short time ago. Although the subject, «A Systematic 
List of the Maryinellidae,’ is not entomological, yet we must refer to 
it as a piece of real hard work, which no one, we know from experience, 
could produce without many months of sheer hard research work, with 
its verification and reverification and comparison with all original 
references. We congratulate Mr. Tomlin on the achievement. 
