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Mhondo forest, a favourite collecting-ground, which lies close to the 

 lake, at a distance of about three miles south of Bukoba, butterflies 

 — Lycaenids and Acraea — would frequently alight on my bare arms 

 to imbibe moisture, while I was resting in the shade beside a stream 

 which flows through to the lake. Several of these were captured, 

 but I regret I am unable to identify them at present. — N. C. E. 

 Miller ; Mwanza, Lake Victoria Nyanza, E. Africa, July 9th, 1922. 



Hybridisation in Nature. — Be the note in the August number 

 of the ' Entomologist ' on hybridisation in nature, on June 24th, 

 while sugaring in some woods a few miles from here, I took an X. 

 monoglypha (male) and A. nebulosa (female) in cop. Unfortunately 

 both died while still paired, so that no ova were obtained. — 

 Alfred H. Sploring; 65, Manners Eoad, Southsea, Portsmouth, 

 August 8th, 1922. 



EECENT LITERATURE. 



Natureland : A Quarterly Journal of Natural History. Edited by 

 Graham Renshaw. Manchester : Sherratt and Hughes. 



Number 3, Vol. I, of this comparatively new periodical contains 

 some excellent photographic reproductions, including one of Eu- 

 vanessa antiopa, but is devoted mainly to Vertebrates and contains 

 little of direct entomological interest. It is, however, well got up, 

 and touches on many matters of more general interest, as suggested 

 by its title. 



The London Naturalist [Journal of the London Natural History 

 Society) for 1921. Pp. xx -f- 80, with 1 plate. London : 

 Published by the Society. 



To those interested in structural abnormalities in Lepidoptera 

 this volume should prove of immense assistance, as the greater part 

 of it is occupied by an exhaustive paper on that subject by Dr. 

 E. A. Cockayne, who has most successfully attempted to collect and 

 group all the scattered references in entomological literature to this 

 subject, supplementing this information throughout with a number 

 of new observations of his own. 



Becords and Observations of British Lepidoptera during 1921. By 

 S. Gordon Smith and E. Nevill Wilmer. Pp. 71, 2 plates. 

 Chester : G. R. Griffith, Ltd., 1922. 

 This small publication, consisting of a complete list of the 356 

 different species obtained by the authors in one season's collecting, 

 chiefly around Chester, N. Wales and the New Forest, is mainly of 

 interest on account of the methods employed. By means of a self- 

 contained motor- caravan, fitted with a powerful electric light, some 

 interesting data as to times of flight and the suitability of atmo- 

 spheric conditions were obtained. A temperature below 50 u Fahren- 

 heit proved fatal to good results, but the barometer readings afforded 

 little clue. _ 



