Notices of New Books. 



7871 



Answers to Enigmas : Enigmas still unanswered : New Enigmas 

 for solution. 



Natural History of the Tineina. 



Notes on Hymenoptera observed during the past Season ; Some 

 Observations on Hymenopterous Parasites, and a Monograph of the 

 Family Chrysididae. By Frederick Smith. 



On Hemiptera, commonly called Bugs. By John Scott. 



New Works on Entomology. 



Mr. M'Lachlan's paper is one of great interest, and does infinite 

 credit to its author : it is written throughout with the greatest care, 

 and introduces one species apparently new to Science, the 



Philopotamus scoticus of M'Lachlan. 

 Female. Antennae brown, annulated with yellowish ; head clothed 

 with golden yellow hairs ; eyes black ; thorax and abdomen black ; 

 legs pale ochreous, tibiae fuscous, spurs fuscous beneath ; anterior 

 wings rich yellow, with numerous more or less confluent, irregularly 

 formed, fuscous streaks and blotches ; the first apical cell does not 

 reach the anastomosis ; posterior wings purplish fuscous, costa and 

 inner margin narrowly edged with yellow ; pterostigma and a spot at 

 the margin in each apical cell also yellow. A single specimen is in 

 the British Museum, taken at Rannoch, in Perthshire, by the late Mr. 

 Foxcroft. 



Mr. Crewe's descriptions of the larvae of Eupitheciae are already 

 known to my readers, and I believe greatly valued by them : the 

 describing of larvae is a new feature in our science, or rather one that 

 had almost become obliterated. 



Mr. Stainton's chapter on Zygaena Minos is both useful and inte- 

 resting, but he does not seem sufficiently at home with the German 

 language, always to convey in English the exact meaning of the 

 authors he translates. The following passages relating to the larvae 

 are very valuable : — 



Larva of Zygana Minos, var. Heringi of Zeller, described by 

 Professor Hering. " The larva of the ordinary Zygaena Minos, 

 which we find here almost exclusively on Pimpinella Saxifraga, 

 ever occurs later with us than about the middle of May. The 

 larva of the above - mentioned variety or species, which flies in 

 the perfect state in August, when Z. Minos is long past, I had for 

 several years sought in vain. I find them only on Thymus Serpyl- 

 lum, on sandy places in fir woods, never in our fortification trenches, 



