bibliography: hymenoptera, 1884-5-6-7. 



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' to the favourable notice of most naturalists.' For our own part we 

 thoroughly appreciate the wisdom of this new departure, based as it 

 is upon sound principles, although it is not perfectly clear to us that 

 the authors have taken it. The work itself seems to deal with the 

 counties as politically defined, each county being taken in successive 

 paragraphs. Had we undertaken the compilation of this work we 

 should not only have adopted the river-basin province of 'Sutherland' 

 as marked out on the map, but we should have subdivided it into 

 minor faunal areas with natural boundaries, and given successive 

 paragraphs to each under the various species. The fullness of the 

 information as actually given compensates however for whatever 

 imperfection the work may exhibit under this head. Altogether the 

 work is one which we cannot conceive of any Scottish vertebrate 

 zoologist being without, and we note with pleasure from a slip at the 

 end that the authors have a further work of the same kind in 

 preparation, to deal with the ' Outer Hebrides,' a volume to which all 

 who have seen the volume now before us will look forward with the 

 keenest anticipation. — W.D.R. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY: 



Papers and records published with respect to the natural history and 

 physical features of the North of England. 



HYMENOPTERA, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887. 



Citations from The Naturalist are, as usual, not included in this 

 paper. Reference should be made to the Indexes of this journal 

 for the years of which this instalment takes cognizance. 

 Anon, [not signed]. Cheshire. 

 [Sirex gigas taken at an excursion to Halton Castle, July 12th.] Rej^ 

 Manch. Sci. Stud. Assoc. for 1884 [pub. Jan. 1885], p. 35. 

 Anon, [not signed]. Cheshire. 

 [Gall-flies found at Holmes-Chapel, Aug. 9th, 1884 ; Cynips rosa:, C. 

 guo'czis-ge/fn/ur, C. lotigipeiinis, Neitrobius reani/iiiri , and Cynips kollar{\. 

 Rep. Manch. Sci. Stud. Ass. for 1884 [pub. Jan. 1885], p. 40. 

 G. C. EiGNELL. ? Lancashire. 



Macrocentrus infirmus bred from Hydrcecia petasitis [sent by Mr. Pierce, of 

 Liverpool; locality not stated]. Ent., April 1887, xx. 114. 

 BRx\1)FOri) Naturalists' Society. Yorkshire. 

 Diary of Natural History Observations for 1884, pp. 28. [Notes on 

 various Hymenoptera. ] 

 John B. Bridgman. Yorkshire, Durham. 



Further Additions to the Rev. T. A. Marshall's Catalogue of British 

 Ichneumonidae [including Cainpoplcx uitiiiuctits Ilolmg. and C. triscidptits 

 Holmg., both taken by (1. T. Porritt at Doncaster in May 1884 ; Sagari(i.< 

 laticollis Holmg., one bred by Ci. C. Pigncll, he believes from the larva of 

 Mania typica, obtained by Mr. Peter Inchbald from the People's Park, Hull, 

 May 1884; and Glypta ccratitcs Gr., var.?, from Sunderland, A. F. Clriftith] 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, pp. 344, 345, 349, and 366. 



May 1888. 



