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NEWS FROM THE MAGAZINES. 
G. B. C. Leman gives descriptions of some further new aberrations 
of Hippodamia variegata in The Entomologist’s Record recently. 
W. Mainbridge describes Blastohasis lignea Wlsm. (Lep.), a species 
new to Britain, in The Entomologist for July. The record is from Lan- 
cashire. 
J. H. Orton writes on ‘The Mode of Feeding of the Jelly-fish, 
Aurelia aurita, on the Smaller Organisms in the Plankton,’ in Nature 
for August 5th. 
Mr. G. Granville Clutterbuck was too busy in the spring of 1920 to 
do much, but he ‘ realized one of his ambitions ’ by finding a locality 
for the Red Helleborine ( Entomologist , July, 1922.) 
Part 19 of The Outline of Science contains valuable and well-illustrated 
papers on the Biology of the Seasons ; What Science means for man ; 
Ethnology, and the Story of Domesticated Animals. 
E. R. Brown writes on ‘ Peratological Variations in the Wings of 
Lepidoptera,' and A. A. Dallman on ‘ The First Liverpool Flora and 
its author,’ in The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist for June 26th. 
In a note on ‘ Scotland and the Fur Supply ’ in The Scottish Naturalist, 
we learn that ‘ even in the early half of the nineteenth century, as many 
as 600 skins of the ‘Polecat have been offered for sale at one time at the 
annual Fur Fair of Dumfries.’ 
The Antiquaries Journal for July is full of good matter as usual, 
and includes ‘ The Hallstatt Period in Ireland,’ by E. C. R. Armstrong, 
and ‘ Further Discoveries of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages at Peter- 
borough,’ by E. T. Leeds. There is also the usual useful summary of 
recent publications. 
Part 17 of The Outline of Science (G. Newnes, Ltd., is. 2d.), contains 
a particularly fine coloured plate of ‘ Precious Stones,’ a well illustrated 
paper on ‘ The Making of the Earth ’ (with a photograph of ‘ A mass of 
Ammonite Shells ’ from the Lias at Whitby), and another article on 
‘ The Science of the Sea.' 
From the State Museum of the University of Washington we have 
received some numbers of The Murrelet, the official bulletin of the 
Pacific North-west Bird and Mammal Club, which is an unusual pro- 
duction, inasmuch as the valuable records the publication contains 
are all produced by means of type-writing, the sheets being tastefully 
bound together. 
The Annotationes Zoologicae J aponenses recently to hand contains 
a varied quantity of matter, including papers on a New Species of 
Limnocodium from Japan ; a New Nematode ; a case of Conspicuous 
Sexual Difference in Coloration in Stomatopod ; a new Decapod Crus- 
tacean ; Description of Four New Birds ; and Pseudocrangonyx, a New 
Genus of Subterranean Amphipods. 
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co; have published No. 17 of the Journal 
of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society. It contains 
some plates, is well printed, and among the contents we notice ‘ Phyto- 
phagous Coleoptera of the Family Chrysomelidae,’ by A. F. J. Gedye ; 
‘ Colour Patterns in Lycaenidae,’ by V. G. L. van Someren ; ‘ The 
Wasanye, ’ by A. M. Champion ; ‘ The Bajun Islands, ’ by J . T . J . Barton ; 
and ' East African Mammalia,’ by A. Loveridge. 
British Birds for August states that the first Fulmar’s egg was taken 
on the Bempton Cliffs on May 26th, and that four others have since been 
obtained. The ‘dimmers’ naively report that they have left four on the 
ledges, ‘ as they were fully alive to the fact that the addition of these 
birds to their ledges was a further inducement to ornithologists to visit 
them.’ It is estimated that there are twenty pairs of Fulmars on the 
cliffs. The same number includes a fine paper on the ‘ Migration of 
British Starlings : Results of the Marking Method,’ by A. Landsborough 
Thomson . 
Naturalist 
