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(1), Carphotricha pupillata (1), Palloptera ustulata (3), Toxoneura muUebris (4), 

 Heteroneitra albimana, Stomphasiica flava (1 and 3, 1896), Stegana coleoptera (1), 

 Phora flava (2), and P. maculuta (1). 



Fop introducing me to L. annulus, M. luteola, B. bioolor and A. hemiptera, I am 

 indebted to Col. Yerbury, and lie also gave me a live specimen of Lipara lucens 

 (N". F.), and two Eumerus sabulonum from Christchurch Bay.— Feed. C. AdamS, 

 68, St. Ermin's Mansions, S.W., and Lyndhurst, Hants : January, 1898. 



Mites wanted .'—Mr. A. D. Michael, of 9, Cadogan Mansions, Sloane Square, 

 S.W., who is preparing a Monograph of the British TyroglypUdcB (so-called " cheese- 

 mites ") for the Eay Society, would be obliged to any entomologists who will send 

 him specimens of dry insects attacked by mites, with the mites on them, or mites 

 picked off the insects. In every case the name of the insect should be given. If 

 the mites are sent without the insect, and are not sent alive, they should be in dilute 

 acetic acid, dilute alcohol, or dilute glycerine. — Eds. 



Eepoet op the Q-oternment ENTOMOLoaiST POE THE Yeae 1896. Cape 

 of Grood Hope : by Chas. P. Lotjnsbuet, B.Sc. 8vo, pp. 153, with one chromo- 

 lith. plate and many illustrations in the text. Cape Town : W. A. Eichards and 

 Son. 1897. 



As the Cape Government Entomologist is an importation from the United 

 States, it is quite in keeping that his Eeport should be drawn up on the American 

 plan : and it would scarcely be possible to find a better. The majority of the insects 

 treated on (chiefly Coccidm) seem also to be importations, mostly from Europe. 

 Judging from his Eeport, Cape Colony has few indigenous injurious insects, except 

 migratory locusts. A feature in the work being done is the supervision exercised 

 over importations of living plants, or fruits, from abroad, and this, with field work 

 also, can scarcely be done single-handed. 



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George Henry Sorn, M.D., President of the American Entomological Society, 

 was born April 7th, 1840, in Philadelphia, and died November 24th, 1897, at 

 Beesley's Point, New Jersey. He graduated in medicine in 1861, and from 1862 to 

 1866 was surgeon in the U. S. army. Subsequently he established himself as a 

 physician in Philadelphia, and had an extensive practice. Before he graduated he 

 published on recent and fossil corals, but eventually turned his attention entirely to 

 North American Coleoptera, as a pupil of, and fellow-worker with, Leconte, until the 

 death of the latter in 1883, and afterwards on his own account. It has been said 

 that if the death of Leconte was a severe blow to North American Coleopterology, 

 that of Horn is probably greater. His first entomological paper was published in 

 1860, and was followed by others (jointly or separately) to the number of about 

 150, appearing almost entirely in America, but he worked out the Eucnemidce for 

 the " Biologia Centrali-Americana." He visited Europe on several occasions, and 

 was not unknown at the meetings of the Entomological Society of London. His 

 collections, and a sum of money, have been left to the American Entomological 



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