THE SUBSTITUTE. 
141 
The Entomologist’s Annual 
FOR 1857. Van Voorst. 
Tlie contents of this volume are 
enumerated in the advertisement 
on p. 144. The papers we espe- 
cially like are ‘ A Synopsis of the 
British Dragon Flies,’ by Dr. 
Hagen ; ‘ Observations on the 
Myrmecopbilous Coleoptera or 
Ants-uest Beetles of Britain,’ by 
E. W. Janson; and ‘How In- 
sects Breathe,’ by John Lubbock, 
F. G.S. Dr. Hagen is acknow- 
ledged in Germany to be a master 
in his knowledge of the Neuroptera, 
and this admirable paper will sup- 
ply a blank in our British ento- 
mological literature, and no doubt 
advance the claims of the dragon 
flies to be noticed. Mr. Janson’s 
paper is full of matter which will 
be new to the bulk of English 
Coleopterists, and will direct at- 
tention to a very curious and in- 
teresting phase in insect economy. 
Mr. Lubbock’s paper is a laudable 
endeavour to call attention to phy- 
siological Entomology, which is so 
much neglected in this country: 
it is written with an evident desire 
to accomplish this object, and ex- 
hibits an admirable conscientious- 
ness in the author. The other 
papers are all good : the ‘ Supple- 
mentary List of British Ento- 
mologists’ will astonish a good 
many by the number of names 
unknown to fame, and is a pleasing 
evidence of the numerical increase 
of collectors ot insects. The plate 
is engraved on steel, and is un- 
usually good, and we observe it is 
by Mr. E. W. Kobiuson, a new 
entomological artist. Altogether 
this is the best ‘ Annual ’ that has 
appeared, and the issue of the three 
editions, each at a different price, 
will, we hope, induce entomolo- 
gists of every grade to possess 
themselves of this record of the 
progress of their Science in Bri- 
tain. A 
EXTRACTS. 
Notes on Nocture; from 
Guenee’s Noctuelites. 
[Continued from p. 120. ] 
Manxes tTa. 
The genus Mamestra, as Och- 
senheimer had created it, could 
not subsist, because it contained 
many species which do not differ 
from ordinary Hadence. I have 
therefore employed this name for 
the present genus, which besides 
contains several of the Mamestrce 
of the German authors. I have di- 
vided it into four groups: the first 
comprises species of rather large 
size, of which the abdomen is 
slightly crested, and which princi- 
pally inhabit mountainous coun- 
tries. The second group comprises 
insects with rounded wings, in 
which the reniform stigma is 
marked externally with one or 
several pale dots ; the abdomen is 
not more crested than in the pre- 
ceding group. In the third the ab- 
domen is strongly crested in both 
sexes, and the reniform stigma en- 
tirely or almost entirely pale ; the 
lines begin to be move ilistinct. 
The larvae are better known than 
those of the preceding group. In 
the fourth group the abdomen is 
strongly crested, the wings are 
dentate, and the posterior marked 
with a dark border (this fourth 
group consists only of species from 
