currknt notes. 109 



exception of the more conspicuous species, the west and soulh-west of 

 Scotland are practically unknown ground. It rests with the Glasgow 

 Society to utilise wisely the forces at its disposal, and produce alist 

 of the insect fauna of the district which will make such a statement 

 as this impossible in the immediate future. 



We have to notice an excellent paper by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 

 entitled "Contributions to the knowledge of the Siphonaptera " 

 {Xoritates Zoolojicae, v., December, 1H98). The new material re- 

 lating to the exoskeleton of the PidiciiJae is of the greatest importance, 

 whilst the descriptions of new species and the excellent plates by 

 means of which the paper is illustrated, will make it of the utmost value 

 to specialists. The species dealt with are : Tuphlopsi/Ua ai/ip-tes, Tasch., 

 T. ai/i/rtcs subsp. nohiUs, n. subsp., T. (iaajjcncniuH, Rotlis., T. prnta- 

 cantlins, Roths., ('fratojist/lla eUmijatnx, Curtis, C. octacWnun, Kol., ('. 

 intcnnediua, sp. nov., Stejilnmocirens inarft, sp. nov. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on 

 February 1st, Mr. Champion exhibited three specimens of an interest- 

 ing species of Fulgoridje, Atalanta anrironia, 15urm., recently received 

 from British Honduras, from M. Blancaneaux, and stated that he had 

 found lepidopterous larvae in the white waxy matter attached to the 

 body of an allied species, KncJutphora stt'llif>r, Burm., in Central 

 America, of which insect he exhibited a specimen, together with a 

 larva taken from it. This larva was very like that of Kpipiji-ops 

 anoiiuila, Westw., an Arctiid which is attached to Fuljora eanddaria in 

 a similar way, and which is figured in the Transactions of the Ent. Hoc. 

 London, 1876, PI. vii. The same gentleman also showed numerous 

 spocimens of both sexes of an undescribed species of Aj)io>nerns (Family, 

 Ruduviid;e) found by himself in Chiriqui, and pointed out some of the 

 more interesting peculiarities of each sex. 



For some time Ave have been quite unable to supply copies of the 

 Mniioijraph of the British Pterophorina, the work being practically out 

 of print. We have just received a few copies of the book, which can 

 be sent out at the advertised price, but it is evident that the pric3 of 

 the book will have to be permanently raised for such copies as may 

 fall into our hands later. 



Stirlio(/lossa xeiiiiriifa, Er., a species of Staphjlinidae new to the 

 British list, has been taken by Mr. Harwood, near Colchester, by beating 

 oaks in May last [K.M.M., March, 1899). In the same number Mr. 

 W. E. Sharp records Phi/tosus nii/rirentris, Chev., from Flintshire. 



Mr. Harwood records {EJl.M., March, 1899) among other Myrme- 

 cophilous coleoptera, from Colchester, Ilister mdn/inatits with iM^iiis 

 J'idit/inosus and Formica riifa, and fJctcrothops quadripunctata with the 

 latter ant. Neither of these species are mentioned by Wasmann in his 

 Mtjriiiclxojihilen und Termitophilcn Arthropodcn, 1891. It is the first 

 record of the Hister occurring with ants. The Hctcrothops in the nest 

 of Formica rufa confirms Mr. Donisthorpe's record {Ent. Record, 

 October, 1897), it having only been known to occur with L. fidvjinosm 

 before. 



One of the most charming series of books on lepidoptera ever pub- 

 lished is, undoubtedly, Oberthilr's Etudes d'Entouioloiiie. The latest 

 volume, entitled " De la variation chcz lesLepidopteres" has just come 

 into our hands, and fully maintains the reputation of the series, not 

 only in the magnificent way in which the letter-press and plates arc 



