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place of the increasingly expensive bran, sawdust has been tried, but 
though successful, it is considerably below the effectiveness of the 
former substance. The effectiveness of various poisons have also been 
tested ; the result shows a slight balance in favour of Paris green over 
the other arsenic compounds used. The results of various mixtures 
with the bait, such as molasses, lemon, banana, etc., have also been 
tested, with a strong favour for lemon extract. 8, A reply to Mr. 
Wolley Dodd’s criticism of their Check List by Messrs. Barnes and 
MeDunnough, in the main accepting the various suggestions of the 
critic, ‘one of the most careful students of Noctuidae in America.” 
The Ent. News for June is mainly taken up with anatomical studies 
in the Diptera—wing veins of Tipulidae-—, Hemiptera—Lopidea of the 
United States, life-histories of Coleoptera, Diptera, etc., and records of 
Odonata, Psyllidae, etc. 
The Scottish Nat. for June contains a summary of the occurrence 
this year up to date of the Camberwell Beauty (Huvanessa antiopa) in 
Scotland, and the writer raises the suggestion that those captured are 
almost undoubtedly individuals which have passed the winter in 
hibernation, as remnants of the extraordinary immigration which 
visited Britain in the autumn of 1917. ‘There are also a few notes on 
the occurrence of the dreaded Anopheles maculipennis in Aberdeen. 
The Irish Nat. for June gives along account of Agrius convolvuli in 
Ireland, referring to the records from Birchall onwards, with special 
description of its area of occurrénce in the prolific year 1917. ‘The 
writer discusses the possibility of the occurrence of the larve, and says 
that the records on this stage are noticeably few compared with those 
of the imagines. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for June, Dr. Perkins gives a long account 
of the effect of stylopization on the various species of bees attacked, and 
to this he adds an interesting account of the Assembling and Pairing 
of the various Stylops species. Mr. P. Harwood adds a new genus and 
species to the list of British Coleoptera in Scaphium immaculatum, taken 
in April near St. Margaret’s Bay, Kent. Mr. E. A. Butler discusses 
the close association between Hemiptera-Heteroptera and vegetation in 
almost every species. 
The Hntonologist for June contains notes on “ The Death Watch,” 
by Dr. Gahan, “ The Life-history of Ancyclis uncana,” by Mr. W. G. 
Sheldon, “Contributions to our Knowledge of the British Braconidae” 
(cont.), by Mr. G. T. Lyle (with several figures), and various notes. 
The Naturalist for July contains an interesting account of a visit 
of the Union of Yorkshire Naturalists to Barnard Castle, with notes on 
insects in all orders observed during the three days spent in the area. 
In the Hnt. Mo. Mag. for July Mr. D. Sharp discusses the phe- 
nomenon of Gynarchy in several families of the Coleoptera, and points 
out that although well known cases exist in other orders, but little 
attention has yet been given to the subject in this order. Mr. G. C. 
Champion announces the discovery of a species of Coleoptera new to 
the British List in Atomaria zetterstedti, found by Mr. Collins in sallow 
catkins, near Bedford. Mr. Perey H. Grimshaw records the occur- 
‘ rence of a Dipteron new to Britain, Chortophila pilipyga, an Anthomyid 
only described last year as new in France. It was taken by Prof. | 
Carr in two localities in Nottingham. Mr. R. 8. Bagnall describes 
two new species of Campodea, C. meinerti, from Manchester, etc., and 
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