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trolling insect pests, and gives the results of investigations made in 
the months of August and September for the past three years. 
Especial nots was made of the moths of the genera Huwoa, Heltia 
and Ayrotis, the parents of the various ‘“‘ cutworms.’ The results are 
remarkable. The total moths collected only exceeds the number of 
useful insects (1176) by 196. Male insects in nearly all orders greatly 
exceed the females. Some of the species of “cutworm’”’ moths col- 
lected have by no means been recognised as of economic importance. 
Taking all this into consideration, the author remarks, “ We are left 
in doubt as to whether this method does not actually do more harm 
than good.” 
In reference to the announcement of the capture of Notodonta 
bicoloria in the Irish Naturalist of last October, Mr. T. Greer says that 
the captor, the Rev. G. Foster, took two specimens, beating them out 
of a small alder wood in the daytime. There was no birch in the 
locality. 
In the Scottish Naturalist for April, Mr. R. 8. Bagnall, F.L.S., 
gives a series of records of Myriapoda from the Forth area, including 
a number of additions to the Scottish fauna. Miss Dorothy Jackson 
gives a long series of Notes on the Aphides of Ross-shire, with the 
descriptions of two species new to science, viz., Macrosiphum alii, found 
on leek (Allium porrum), and Pemphigus glebae, of which the food-plant 
was not ascertained. ‘The latter article is illustrated by one plate and 
numerous figures of the minute structural details. 
In the Entomologist for April, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown discusses 
the Scandinavian forms of Plebetus argus and Mr. P. J. Barraud lists 
the species of Rhopalocera which he had observed in 1916 and 1917 in 
Macedonia. é 
Will our readers who are interested in the preservation of Wicken 
Fen please note that Mr. H. Rowland-Brown has ceased to be 
Treasurer of the Wicken Fen Trust. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, the Hon. 
Treasurer of the Entomological Society of London, has kindly -con- 
sented to act on behalf of the Trust. Subscribers to the Fund are 
asked to send their subscriptions and communications to him at 
“ Youlgreave,” S. Croydon. 
In the Bull. Soc. ent. France for February, M. Moreau reports that 
Tortrix pronubana, which has been so abundant for the past twenty 
years around Paris, and the larve of which were extremely common 
in the autumn of 1916, were totally absent in the spring of 1917. He 
suggests that the long and rigorous winter of 1916-17 was the cause 
of this disappearance. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for April, Dr. R. C. L. Perkins continues 
his records of British species of Stylopidae and describes as new Stylops 
analis from the New Forest, and S. spreta from Cambridge, etc. In 
the genus Halictoxenus he describes two other species, viz., H. eylin- 
driei, from the South of England, parasitic on species of Halictus, and 
H. tumulorum, from N. Wiltshire, infesting Halictus tumulorum. There 
is a plate of structural details of the new species described, 
Above the initials H.S. in the Entomological News for April are 
some remarks which are quite worth producing. “As to Typzs.— 
Perhaps since the following list of kinds of types has gone to the 
printer it has been increased to at least fifty-seven varieties: Type, 
Holotype, Allotype, Cotype, Paratype, Syntype, Morphotype, Lecto- 
