266 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
sand in the neighbourhood of Folkestone,” by H. C. Sorby, LL.D., 
F.R.S.; “On instincts which in some insects produce results corre- 
sponding with the moral sense in man,” by F’. Merrifield, F.E.S. ; 
“The colour of pupe in relation to their surroundings,” by F. 
Merrifield, F.E.S.; ‘Dust: its living and dead constituents,” 
by H. Gabbett, M.D.; ‘Science at the end of the eighteenth 
century,’ by A. W. Brackett; <‘The skin of liquids,” by C. H. 
Draper, D.Sc., B.A.; ‘‘The Raised Beaches of Brighton and their 
microscopical contents,’’ by F. Chapman, A.L.8., F.R.M.S.; ‘The 
protection of wild birds in the south-eastern counties,” by J. H. 
Allchin. The important paper contained in the volume, however, is the 
Presidential Address by Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., &e., 
the Secretary of the Linnean Society. Well thought-out papers on 
the general and broad principles underlying the study of natural 
history, of the weight, accuracy, and undoubted ability exhibited in this, 
are rarely met with in the lesser publications, and every entomologist 
who is a naturalist in the wider sense should certainly read it. We 
recommend this publication particularly to our wealthy provincial 
naturalists as being entirely worthy of their generous support. 
Mr. King records (Hnt. Mo. Mag., August) the capture of Somatoch- 
lora metallica 1n some numbers at Loch-en-Ang and other lochs in 
Strathglass. It first appeared on June 16th (1899), but was much 
more abundant in July and August. 
Lord Walsingham gives (Ht. Mo. May., August) a review of the 
Tineid genus Meessia. He determines the Dorset species (that has 
been for some time standing in British collections) as not being 
identical with the Meessia vinculella, H.-Sch., of the continent, and names 
the British species Meessia richardsoni. At the same time, he asserts 
that the true Meessia vinculella, H.-Sch., does occur in Britain, there 
being a good specimen in the collection of Mr. Bankes, which was also 
taken in Dorsetshire. 
Mr. Katon adds (Ent. Mo. Mag., August) the little black Trichop- 
teron, beraea articularis, Pict., to the British list, from specimens 
captured on Haven Cliff, near the mouth of the Axe, on a wet grass 
slope moistened by a dribbling spring. Wallengren placed the species 
in the genus Hrnodes created for it, and Mclachlan thinks that the 
genus should stand. 
We are pleased to inform our readers that Lord Walsingham has 
acquired the Micro-Lepidoptera of the late Dr. O. Hofmann, so that 
the collections of Frey, Stainton, Zeller, Hofmann, &c., are all now 
available for scientific entomological students. As these will ultimately 
go to the national collection and become public property and so be 
available for future reference so long as the collections exist, entom- 
ologists generally owe Lord Walsingham a deep debt of gratitude for 
his action. me 
Mr. Saunders notes (Wnt. Mo. May.) the capture by himself and Mr. 
Morice of Nomada atrata(brevicornis)on August 4thand 13that West Clan- 
don, and near Chobham, on Scabiosa arvensis and S. succisa. This species 
was erroneously sunk by F’. Smith as a variety of NV. germanica (=ferru- 
ginata), and so has to be reinstated in the British list. The same 
entomologist adds Pompilus sanguinolentus to the British list, a @ of 
this species having been taken by Dr. Sharp between Holiday Hill and 
Emery Down, in the New Forest, on July 18th last. 
