112 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
In the Entomologist for February Prof. Fred. V. Theobald describes 
a new geaus of Aphididae, Truncaphis, in which he places a new species 
he describes under the name Truncaphis newsteadi, taken in Gloucester 
and at Camberley. He also describes another new species, Sipha para- 
dowa, from Rothamsted, on Poa trivialis (among moss). In the same 
number Mr. R. Adkin writes on the “ Abundance of White Butterflies 
in 1917,” and Mr. W. D. Sheldon discusses a cure for specimens affected - 
by verdigris, advocating the use of silver pins for fresh caught speci- 
mens, and immersion in toluol for old insects. 
In the Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. for January, M. Culot describes a new 
species of Larentia from the Bernese Alps as Larentia alpinata. It is 
closely allied to L. miata and L. siterata. M. Culot had previously 
received the species from the Hautes-Pyrénées. It will be figured in 
his Jconoyraphie des Géometres. M. Oberthtir announces further 
Specimens of the extremely rare Mamestra renati from the Alpes 
Maritimes ; only one specimen, a female, had been known hitherto of 
this species from the Pyrénées-Orientales. M. Oberthur also an- 
nounces that Mr. Harold Powell has bred a Noctuid new to Franee, 
via., the delicate Gracilipalpus ephialtes (nubilaris), a native of Algeria. 
In the Canadian Entomoloyist for January is an obituary notice of 
Wm. D. Kearfott, who died after an attack of apoplexy in November 
of 1917, at the age of 58. He was a keen student of the micro- 
lepidoptera, and was specially interested in the Tortricidae of North 
America. It will be called to mind that great objection was taken by 
many entomologists interested in nomenclature to his long series of 
peculiarly inappropriate and illiterately fashioned new names. His 
collection has gone to the American Museum of Natural History. 
In the March number of the Irish Naturalist, Mr. T. W. L. Keane 
writes of the abundance of Lepidoptera in Ireland in 1917. Argynnis 
paphia in very large numbers, Coenonympha pamphilus common, Hip- 
parchia semele, Pyrameis cardui and Rumicia phlaeas all more numerous 
than usual; Zygaena filipendulae was swarming, and a specimen of 
Agrius convolvuli was taken. This was in co. Waterford. 
In the Entomologist for March, Miss D. Haviland describes a new 
British Aphid from thistle under the name of Myzus carthusianus ; it 
was found at Godalming. Mr. R. Adkin, in his remarks on the abun- 
dance of ‘‘ whites” in 1917, gives a description with a figure of his 
aberration of Pieris brassicae with striated apical markings. 
In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for March, Mr. Donisthorpe records a Coleop- 
teron new to Britain, Caenocara (Hnneatoma) subglobosa, Muls. It was 
bred from puff-balls, Lycoperdon, found at Barton Mills in September, 
1917. Mr. Jas. Edwards discusses the species of the aquatic Hemip- 
tera of the genus Notonecta. Dr. R. C. L. Perkins commences a 
Synopsis of the British species of Stylops, and describes the following 
species as new :—Stylops wilkellae from Woking, S. hammella, parasitic 
on Andrena chrysosceles, from near Oxford; S. nevinsoni, parasitic on 
Andrena synadelpha, and 8. bimaculatae, parasitic on Andrena bimacu- 
lata var. vitrea, from south Devon. 
The Naturalist for March contains an account of Yorkshire Hnto- 
mology in 1917 by Mr. B. Morley, and of Yorkshire Coleoptera in 
1917 by Mr. W._J. Fordham, F.E.S. 
In the Canadian Entomologist for March, under ‘‘ Popular Practical 
Entomology,” Prof. Criddle discusses light-traps as a means of con- 
