194 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
shook his head. ‘ Don’t like to kill you. Saved my life, I guess; 
what shall I do with you?” Then, with inspiration, “I know,’— 
clapped it on his neck again—‘“ Put you back on full rations!” 
In the Naturalist for September we read that the colleetion of the 
Mymaridae collected and mounted by the late Fred Enock has been 
acquired by the authorities of the Manchester Museum. It contains 
“a large number of beautifully mounted typical specimens of a group 
of the Hymenoptera that are parasitic upon the eggs of leaf-hoppers, 
plant-bugs, and aphids, insects destructive to food plants.” The late 
C. O. Waterhouse had been working on the Mymarids with Fred 
Bnock for some years past. We wonder what has become of his col- 
lection of these beautiful “ fairy-flies.” 
The Entomologist for September contains an account of “ Butter- 
flies eollected in the Pyrénées-orientals in 1917 and 1918,” by J. RB. 
McClyment, with Notes by H. Rowland-Brown; ‘‘ Gleanings from my 
Note-books,” by J. W. H. Harrison, D.Sc. ; “ Collecting in 1917,” by 
C. G. Clutterbuck ; with a further instalment of the List of British 
Noctuidae by R. South. 
There is a detailed description of the extremely rare male of the 
now very common “ walking-stick’’ Bacillus rossii, in the Bull. soc. 
ent..H'r., No. 12, with a figure of the genital armature. 
In the H. M. M. for September, Mr. EK. A. Newbery adds a new 
species to the List of British Coleoptera in Trogophloeus timpressus 
taken in July, 1877, near Hammersmith. 
The field meetings of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union are usually 
very popular as well as being very successful from a scientific point of 
view. In the Naturalist for September we find an account of a visit 
paid to Crosshills on July 18th, which was attended by close upon 
eighty ; the weather was said to have been ‘‘ ideal” and the routes 
chosen for the various sections afforded a capital survey of the natural 
delights of the valleys of Glusburn and Lothersdale. At the end of 
the meeting reports were given of the results of the work of the 
different sections in entomology, geology, botany, bryology, ornith- 
ology, etc. 
In the Bull. Soc. ent. F'r., No. 12, M. Daniel Lucas reports the 
capture of Chrysophanus dispar var. rutilus in the forest of Lassivour, 
Aube, where it occurs in the drier open spaces just as C. hippothoé 
dog§ in its habitats. It will be called to mind that C. dispar. v. rutilus 
occurs in some numbers in the Bordelais, but there it frequents actual 
marshes and areas interspersed with marshy lakes. Corresponding to 
a different character of habitat there is a difference in the two forms. 
The form from the Aube is nearly the size of the Bordeaux form, but 
is distinguished by a more angulated apex to the fore-wing, a less 
bluish tint on the hing-wings below, with the presence of much smaller 
black spots on both wings below. The female has the whole area of 
the fore-wings, except the marginal portion, almost uniformly black, 
as in the Bordelais specimens. On the discal and extra-discal portions _ 
of the fore-wings above, the black spots are much emphasised. ~ 
A very interesting little brochure, ‘“ printed for private circulation, ” 
Memoir of the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., has— 
been on our table for some time. It is written by his son, A. W. 
Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. The 
uecord of a good life of a hard-working, clever man was a great plea- 
