148s . BLUE-BELLIED VIPER AT SKIPWITH. 
BRITISH CICADINA AND PSYLLINA. 
The : Hemiptera-Homoptera | (Cicadina and Psyllina JE the | 
: 
| scriptive Account of the Families, Gene 
einen to Grea and Ireland | wit ne as to 
Habitats, etc. | By | JAMEs Epwarps, F.E.S. | London | L. 
Co. | [2 lines of address] | 1896 [Received 22th Janus 8vo. 
tory 
i-viii+1I-271+2 plates with ex plana’ pages 
ments: price I2s.; Large paper Edition with “28 ‘ae plates, not s 
43s. net]. 
THE debt of gratitude which Messrs. Lovell Reeve & 
placed British entomologists under by the publication of t 
of entomological monographs, already great, is added 
siderably by the production of this addition to it. Inasmuch 
present work covers ground which has been previously uno 
in Britain, its appearance is to be heartily welcomed, and it 
ners Bs to i hoped that it will give a stimulus to new w 
mber of species described is about 307, as ¢0 
with the ee which Messrs. Douglas & Scott included 
catalogue of 1876. Four species are described as new, 
Liburnia thoulesst, Psylla concinna, ot brunneipennis, and P. 
€ species are treated of in ch the same manner 
othet volumes of the same series ; 08 there is the 
The weak point, regretted in the introduction, is that of 
record of localities, but this is not in any sense a fault of the 
or of its accomplished author, being simply the result of 
that there are very few students or collectors who pay 
to these particular groups in this country. 
© conclude, British entomologists are to be congratulated 
last having such a work placed within their reach, and it § 
hoped that the encouragement it gives to study will be wid 
reaching. 
NOTE—REPTIL £5. 
-bellied Viper at Skipwith Com Mr. Councillor C. 
Blue ith 
of Leeds, has just presented to the Leeds san a very fine specimens 
long, of the Viper or Adder (Vipera berus), which answers to the 
the heathe 
black, but these d.—H -R.M.S., The Mt 
Api’ bet Ser. escape ENRY CROWTHER, F R. ! 
