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par mes soins. M'est-il permis apres cela trop de temerite, de me 

 considerer comme relativement assez bien renseigne sur la matiere en- 

 tomologique? Cependent je declare n'avoir jamais vu de subspecies, 

 selon le sens attribue a se mot. J'ai vu des Varietes geographique, des 

 Races et Formes locales, des Aberrations." But the reviewer is cer- 

 tain Oberthiir is not very clear on this subject. Alpheraky's paper is 

 a review of an extended one by Semenov Tian-Shansky, published in 

 Russian in 1910, and by R. Friedlander in German. 



Alpheraky En concluont ces notes, noms, mona croyons de notre 

 devoir de recommander le memoire de M. Semenoz Tian-Shansky a 

 1'attention de tons ceux qui s'interressant a la Classification du regne 

 animal, car ils y trouveront ample matiere a reflexion ct a meditation." 



Finally the second part of fascicule V has a very valuable contribu- 

 tion : Revision iconographique des Especes de Phalenites (Geometrae) 

 enumerees et decrites par Achille Guenee in the Species general des 

 Lepidopteres, 1857; with colored illustrations; this is of great in- 

 terest to systematic lepidopterists generally, and of course to the 

 numerous students of geometridae in this country. Our ideas of cer- 

 tain species may change with colored illustrations of the types before 

 us. There is a sympathetic sketch of Guenee's life, and a reprint of 

 "Ecrits humoristiques de Guenee ;" showing the latter's fine literary 

 style and broad-mindedness; it is further entitled, "Les Entomolo- 

 gistes peints par eux-mimes." The superb photographic reproductions 

 of scenes in Algeria and the Pyrenees are of interest to the zoogeo- 

 grapher; the photos from life of the larvae of various species and the 

 beautiful lithographs of J. Culot make a very valuable volume. 

 FORDVCE GRIN NELL, JR. 



Doings of Societies. 



THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



The sessions of the Second International Congress of Ento- 

 mology were held in the University Museum, Oxford, Eng- 

 land, from August 5th to August (jth, I9f2, inclusive. The 

 first extensive meeting of the members with each other, how- 

 ever, was at an informal reception given by Oxford entomol- 

 ogists in the Dining Hall of New College, at 8.30 p. m., August 

 4th. In spite of its name, this Hall dates from the latter part 

 of the fourteenth century ; its height, its great, stained-glass 

 windows, the portraits of eminent past members of the college 

 on its walls and, above all, its historic associations combined 

 to make it a most charming and appropriate gathering place 



