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At the Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, held on November Ttli, 

 1877, the Chairman, Mr. W. T. P.lanfonl, F.R.S., and Vice-President of the Society, 

 announced as follows : — 



" That arrangements had been made for publishing an extra volume, containing the 

 descriptions by Messrs. Moore and Hewitson of the new species of Lepidoptera in the late 

 Mr. Atkinson's collections, as announced at the March Meeting. It was proposed that the 

 volume should hv m Four Parts, quarto. The first Part would be put in hand at once ; and 

 the remaining three Parts would be completed in the course of the next two years. The 

 work would be illustrated by coloured Plates. Owing to the expense, 225 copies * only 

 would be printed, and would be available to Members by purchase after presentations 

 had been made to the Societies interested in Natural History exchanging with the 

 Society." 



The scheme of publication here described was an enlargement of that which, on the 

 suf'gestion of Mr. F. Moore of the India Museum, I had proposed to the Society early in 

 1877. The Society's 'Proceedings' for March of that year, to which Mr. Blanford makes 

 reference, record the letter submitting my recommendation, as well as the Councils action 

 thereon. 



Brictly, my letter stated that Mr. Atkinson's magnificent collection of I.,epidoptei-a, 

 specially rich Jis it was known to be in Heterocera, had been purchased b\ Mi llewit-son, 

 and had since gone to Germany, but that Mr. F. Moore had made arrangements with the 



• Afterwards extended to 52.5 copies, of which 300 were to be publiahod with uncolourcd plates. The work 

 moreover, will consist of Three Parts only. 



