5. Migration, Introductions and Local DistributionJournal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Nov., 1961), pp. 448-451Published by: British Ecological SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2317 .

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448 Abstracts

Hartnoll, R. G. (1960). Entionella monensis sp. nov., an entoniscid parasite of the spider crab Eurynome aspera (Pennant). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 39, 101-107.

Discusses taxonomy of Entoniscidae and their parasitic habits. Describes genus Entionella and the mature male and female of the new species and also their relations with the crab host. A key is provided.

Jackson, D. J. (1960). Revised determination of a Eulophid (Hym., Chalcidoidea) bred from eggs of Dytiscus marginalis L. Entomologist, 93, 181.

The parasite previously determined as Chrysocharis sp. is now recognized as Mestocharis militaris, which has not previously been reported from Britain (see 1956, J. Soc. Brit. Ent. 5, 144-149 and abstract in 1956, J. Anim. Ecol. 25, 448).

Lees, E. & Bass, L. (1960). Sex hormones as possible factor influencing level of parasitiza- tion in frogs. Nature, Lond. 188, 1207-1208.

The level of parasitization is higher in males during breeding season, but after the breeding season the difference between the sexes is less. The hypothesis that female sex hormones depress this level was tested by injecting males with oestradiol benzoate and examining parasitization after 3 weeks. A marked difference between treated and control animals supports the hypothesis. McPherson, E. A. (1960). Lice, mange and ringworm in cattle. Scot. Agric. 39, 141-144.

4. FOOD AND FOOD HABITS

Harrison, C. J. 0. (1960). The food of some urban tawny owls. Bird Study, 7, 236-240 In marked contrast to the diet in woodland, that of urban tawny owls in south London

comprised 96 %, by numbers, of five species of birds. The only mammal taken was the brown rat.

Lanktree, P. A. D. (1960). Lepidoptera: some unusual larval foodplants. Ent. Rec. 72, 187-190.

Data for five species found feeding on food-plants other than those published for Britain. A sixth, Orgyia antiqua, fed regularly on Pyracanthus during 1928-31 but was not found on it in the same suburb, where the moth was still common, during 1952-58. An attempt to rear Abraxas grossulariata on Rhamnus (for which an old record exists) was unsuccessful.

Levinson, Z. H. (1960). Food of house fly larvae. Nature, Lond. 188, 427-428. The relationship between larvae and Escherichia coli is investigated. It is concluded that

E. coli cells form an essential part of the larval diet. In Nature the diverse materials on which the larvae thrive are merely substrates for the bacteria, which most probably are the actual food of the larvae.

Pettersson, M. (1959). The despoilation of Daphne and the relative success of pest control measures. A report of a co-operative investigation. J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 84, 379-381.

Reviews attack by greenfinches on the seeds of Daphne mezereum and methods tried in combating this.

5. MIGRATION, INTRODUCTIONS AND LOCAL DISTRIBUTION

Aston, A. (1960). Lepidoptera observed at Dulwich, 1957-1960. Ent. Rec. 72, 238-243. Of the 286 species recorded and here listed, most are common, feed on common plants or are

polyphagous, but some woodland and meadow species are represented; some species have colonized ornamental trees. The numbers found on specific food-plants and food media in the different habitats are shown in a table.

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Migration, etc. 449

Barnes, H. &. Barnes, M. (1961). Recent spread and present distribution of the barnacle Elminius modestus Darwin in south-west Scotland. Glasgow Nat. 18, 121-135.

An account of the further spread of this immigrant Australasian barnacle from the Solway Firth to the Clyde Sea area.

Birkett, N. L. (1960). Some records of Chironomidae (Diptera) taken in Scotland. Entomologist, 93, 182-183.

Includes several species new to Scotland and one, Syndiamesa nivosa, new to Britain.

Collin, J. E. (1960). A fourth species of Cnemodon (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain. Entomologist, 93, 144-145.

C. pubescens, recorded from Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.

Crisp, D. J. (1960). Northern limits of Elminius modestus in Britain. Nature, Lond. 188, 681.

The northward spread of the species, following a period of 5 years with little advance, is probably to be ascribed to an increased fecundity caused by the exceptionally warm summer of 1959.

Crisp, D. J. & Southward, A. J. (1959). The further spread of Elminius modestus in the British Isles to 1959. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 38, 429-437.

Details surveys 1958 to 1959 in the Irish Sea and round the Irish coast.

Dent, T. V. (1960). Forestry in Yorkshire. Forestry, 33 (1), 74-100. Local notes (pp. 81-82) on some mammal and insect pests. The boundary between the funda-

mental highland and lowland zone is in Yorks.

Fairclough, R. (1960). Coenotephria sagittata Fabr. in Nottinghamshire. Ent. Rec. 72, 191-192.

Apparently a new county record.

Galliford, A. L. (1960). Notes on the microscopic fauna and flora of the Leeds-Liverpool canal in south-west Lancashire. Proc. Liverpool Nat. Field Cl. 1959, 23-28.

Protozoa, Ciliata, Polyzoa, Rotifera, Cladocera and Copepoda, mainly between Ford and Burscough. Harrison, J. W. Heslop- (1960). Lophopteryx capucina L. (Lep.) in the Outer Hebrides.

Entomologist, 93, 131. This record, from the Isle of Lewis, is the first for the Outer Hebrides.

Hemingway-Jones, D. (1960). The Portuguese man-of-war in Cardigan Bay. Nature in Wales, 6, 5-10.

A summary of known records of Physalia in Cardigan Bay including about fifty noted on Laughame sands in 1954. A number seen in January 1959, some as far north as Harlech.

Hemingway-Jones, D. (1961). Elminius modestus on south-east coast of Scotland. Nature, Lond. 190, 103-104.

A survey of the Forth estuary was made to determine the limits of the local population. The highest proportion of adults occurred west of the Forth Bridge, and it seems likely that the focal point of the colonization developed as a result of remote dispersal by shipping.

Hincks, W. D. (1960). A new British species of the genus Alaptus Haliday (Hym., Mymaridae). Entomologist, 93, 170-172.

A. richardsi reared from the egg-mass of a Psocid, probably Caecilius flavidus, on broom (Sarothamnus scoparius) in Berkshire.

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450 Abstracts

Hulme, D. C. (1960). Homoeosoma sinuella Fabr. in Derbyshire. Ent. Rec. .72, 219. A new county record for this Phyticid.

Lansbury, I. (1960). Ectobius lapponicus (L.) Blattidae, Orthoptera at light. Entomologist, 93, 245.

Six males of this cockroach, which frequently comes to domestic light in Berks., were taken at a mercury-vapour light-trap there.

Mason, J. (1959). The state of Manx scallop stocks, 1950-53. Rep. Mar. Biol. Sta. Port Erin, 71, 39-46.

Surveys distribution and status of scallops around the Isle of Man.

Miller, P. J. (1960). A preliminary account of the gobies of Liverpool Bay. Proc. Liverpool Nat. Field Cl. 1959, 12-22.

Status and habitat of five species of Gobius and one of Aphia.

Mylne, C. K. (1960). Bird notes from the Marloes peninsula and Skomer, summer 1959. Nature in Wales, 6, 127-131.

Notes on migrants (including a hoopoe) and on breeding species. Whereas about twenty pairs of jackdaws were recorded breeding in 1946, hundreds of breeding pairs were nesting in all parts of the island in 1959.

Newton, J. & Price, L. (1960). Coleophora leucapennella Hubn. in Gloucestershire. Ent. Rec. 72, 264.

Recorded for the first time in Gloucestershire and the second in Britain.

Parr, M. J. (1960). Three new species of Aphanogmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphrontidae) from Britain, with a redescription of A. fumipennis Thoms., 1858, a species new to Britain. Trans. Soc. Brit. Ent. 14, 115-130.

Describes A. venestus, A. cylindricornis and A. reticulatus.

Pickvance, T. J. & Chard, J. S. R. (1960). Feral muntjac deer (Muntiacus spp.) in the west midlands, with special reference to Warwickshire. Proc. Birm. Nat. Hist. Phil. Soc. 19 (1), 1-8.

A survey of known records and an appeal for new information.

Pilcher, R. E. M. (1960). The Macro-Lepidoptera of the Lincolnshire fens and marshes. Trans. Lincs. Nat. Union, 15, 23-31.

A descriptive account of the principal moths of these habitats.

Richardson, F. D. S. (1960). Sussex marine fauna list. S. East. Nat. 64 (1959), xv-xxvi. A briefly annotated list, with information on abundance, localities and habitats, compiled

from records of the Brighton Technical College (Miss J. E. Heriot), Professor Munro Fox and L. R. Brightwell.

Rowe, F. P. (1960). Golden Hamsters, Mesocricetus auratus (Waterhouse) living free in an urban habitat. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 134, 499-503.

Sage, B. L. (1960). Notes on dragonflies in Wales in 1959. Nature in Wales, 6, 10-14. Records from Breconshire, Pembrokeshire (including Skokholm), and Bardsey, Caernarvon-

shire. Lestes sponsa is a new county record for Breconshire.

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Migration, etc. 451

Sage, B. L. (1960). Notes on dragonflies in Wales in 1960. Nature in Wales, 6, 131-134. Includes two new county records, Aeschna grandis for Caernarvonshire and Orthetrum

coerulescens for Montgomeryshire.

Salmon, H. M. (1960). Ornithological notes. Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc. 87, 24-26. A list of the more unusual and interesting birds reported in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire

from October 1957 to September 1958 inclusive.

Saunders, D. (1960). Skomer bird report 12 March to 23 October 1960. Nature in Wales, 6, 120-127.

Among interesting records is that of two golden orioles seen in May - the first records for Skomer. A juvenile marsh harrier seen in October is also a first record for Skomer. One pair of choughs reared a chick.

Shearer, W. M. & Trewavas, E. (1960). A Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in Scottish waters. Nature, Lond. 188, 868.

The natural distribution of the pink or humped-back salmon is along the Pacific coasts of N. America and Asia. This specimen was taken on the sea coast off Aberdeen. The Russians have recently introduced the fish to the Kola Peninsula, from whence the specimen probably originated.

Smith, K. G. V. (1960). Notes on some insects from Caldey Island. Nature in Wales, 6, 46-49.

A list of insects belonging to six different orders collected on this Pembrokeshire island in 1958 and 1959.

Smith, K. Paviour- (1960). The invasion of Britain by Cis bilamellatus Fowler (Coleop- tera; Ciidae). Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. (A) 35, 145-155.

Suggests that this insect was introduced, before 1884, probably in specimens of Polyporus portenosus Berkeley from Australia. Gives details of its spread since that date.

Wallace, D. I. M. (1961). The birds of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, 1959. Lond. Bird Rep. 24 (1959), 81-107.

An annotated list of eighty-five species seen during 1959 with a table of minimum breeding populations. Notes the bullfinch for the first time breeding successfully in inner London. Discusses resident, winter migrant birds and compares with earlier records.

Warwick, T. (1961). The vice-county distribution of the Scottish freshwater leeches and notes on the ecology of Trocheta bykowskii (Gedroyc) and Hirudo medicinalis L. in Scotland. Glasgow Nat. 18, 130-135.

Twelve freshwater leeches have been recorded from Scotland, but there are no records at all for twelve of the forty-one vice-counties. T. bykowskii, a recent addition to the British fauna, has now been recorded from five places in the British Isles, including the Braid Burn, Edinburgh.

Williams, R. G. F. (1961). The distribution of freshwater leeches in the Glasgow region, with notes on their ecology. Glasgow Nat. 18, 136-146.

Seven of the twelve Scottish species of freshwater leech have been recorded for the Glasgow region.

de Worms, C. G. M. (1960). Heliothis nubigera H.-S. (Lep., Noctuidae), new to Britain. Entomologist, 93, 217.

At light in Dorset and Norfolk in 1958.

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