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News from the Magazines. 
The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for April contains the con- 
clusion of ‘ The Aquatic Coleoptera of the Channel Islands,’ by F. Balfour- 
Browne ; ‘ Atheta ( metaxya ) cambricina. A Staphylinid Beetle new to 
Science,’ by J. H. Keys (founded on specimens taken in Windsor Forest 
by Mr. H. Donisthope) ; ‘ Arctic Ichneumide in the Perthshire 
Highlands ’ (including 13 additions to the British list), by R. B. Benson ; 
‘A New Species of Terracaecilins (Psocoptera) by J. V. Pearman (T 
greeni sp. n. from Camberley) ; ‘ The effects of absence of humidity on 
the eggs of Dysdercus spp. in the Field,’ by A. M. Alston (Dysdercus 
is the ‘ Red Cotton Bug ’ of Nigeria etc.) ; ‘ Further Comments on 
Meigen’s 1800 paper on Diptera,’ by J. M. Aldrick and ‘The Pierinae 
in the collection of the late Admiral Edmund G. Bourke, now in the 
Hope Department of the University Museum, Oxford,’ by F. A. Dixey. 
There are also three short notes including ‘ A teratological specimen of 
Phigalia pedaria F.,’ from Scarborough, Yorks. 
Proceedings of the Cleveland Field Club, 1928-1932, Vol. IV, Part II, 
1932, edited by T. A. Lofthouse, F.R.I.B.A., F.E.S., and M. Odling, 
M.A., B.Sc., F.G.S. This issue is a welcome contribution to the natural 
history of the Clevelands. It contains notes of great local interest on 
Place Names,’ by Major R. B. Turton, and on ‘ Wild Flowers,’ by 
Chas. Postgate and M. Odling, and Reports on Cleveland Lepidoptera 
(T. A. Lofthouse), Coleoptera and Hemiptera (M. L. Thompson). 
Meteorological observations by M. Odling, and notes on the Alum 
Industry by H. N. Wilson, and an article from the pen of the late J. J . 
Burton on ‘ The Cleveland Whin Dyke ’ are valuable contributions ; 
a paper on the ‘ Floods in the Esk Valley, July, 1930, and September, 
1931,’ by J. W. R. Punch, is a very interesting and we 11 -illustrated 
account of those disastrous floods. It may be obtained from H. and F. 
Stokeld, Middlesborough, price 3/-. 
Number 26 of Volume IV of the Natural History Magazine (Published 
by the Trustees of the British Museum, London, S.W.7, 1/-, postage 
extra), contains articles on the Natural History Museum, Berlin ; The 
Southern Sea Lion ; A new exhibit of Iguanodon ; and two contributions 
dealing especially with museum arrangements. That describing a 
scene illustrating British Freshwater Insects should prove of value to 
all interested in the natural display of specimens. The scene, which 
has been recently installed in the Insect Gallery of the Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington, is that of a pond in the Midlands during the 
month of June. The exhibit is divided at water level in such a way 
that life above and below are displayed in a manner suitable for 
study . 
The Transactions of the Entomological Society of the South of England, 
Vol. VIII, Part II (1932) contains many very important papers, and 
keeps up the high standard of this publication which should be in the hands 
of all entomologists. It contains ‘ The Prey of British Dragonflies,’ by 
B. M. Hobby (113 observations of the prey of 24 species) ; ‘ Synonymic 
Notes on the Dipterous family Syrphidae,’ by E. R. Goffe (Syrphus, 
Scaeva and Xanthogramma ) ; ‘ The Parasites of Neuroptera,’ by F. J. 
Killington (25 parasites of 19 species) ; ‘ A Preliminary List of British 
Collembola,’ by F. A. Turk (124 species listed) ; ‘ Lithocolletis 
concomitella Bankes (Lep.) and its Allies,’ by W. P. Curtis ; Descrip- 
tions of four aberrations of Argynnis selene and one of Aricia medon, the 
former taken in the New Forest and the latter in the Isle of Wight, by 
W. P. Curtis ; ‘ The Aculeate Hymenoptera of Hampshire : Supplemen- 
tary List,’ by H. P. Jones (20 species of Apoidea, 7 of V espoidea, 4 of 
Sphecoidea and 19 of Chrysididae , with an appendix of 6 of Bethylidae ) ; 
and ‘ A Bibliography of Entomological Notes and Papers contained in 
the serial publications issued by local scientific societies in the British 
Isles, Part I,’ edited by B. M. Hobby (a most valuable compilation). 
The Naturalist 
