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the Entomological Society of London feels that the tinae has arrived when some 

 check should be placed upon the practice, of more weight than that which can 

 be exercised by any single individual, society, or publication, and would urge 

 upon the International Congress the estal^lishment of a permanent International 

 Committee to deal with questions of nomenclature as affecting Entomology ; 

 to consider what ekicidations, extensions or emendations, if any, are required in 

 the Intex-national Code ; and to confer with the International Commission of 

 Zoological Nomenclature. The Entomological Society of London recommends 

 that the International Entomological Committee, when formed, shall take such 

 action as to ensiue the adequate representation of Entomology on the Inter- 

 national Zoological Commission. The Society also recommends that, considering 

 the difficulty of frequent International meetings, the leading Entomological 

 Society of each country be invited to appoint a Committee whose duty it shall 

 be to deal with all questions arising in their own country, subject to reference 

 to the International Committee ; and suggests that the International Committee 

 be composed of two, or three, members of each of the National Committees, 

 elected either by the Committees, or directly by the electing Societies. 



(Signed) Chas. O. Waterhouse, Chairman, Gr. T. Bethtme-Baker, T. A. 

 Chapman, Jno. Hartley Durrant, Louis B. Prout, Hy. J. Tiu-ner, George 

 Wheeler." 



The Eeport was adopted. 



Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a series of thirteen specimens of Physocephala 

 nigra, De G., the largest British species of the Conopidse, caught on Studland 

 Heath (Dorsetshire), during the last week in May, when Colonel Yerbury 

 Mr. C. J. Wainwright and himself took some 24 specimens. He remarked that 

 though widely distributed, the species was always considered a great rarity, 

 and its occurrence in such numbers had never before been recorded. Dr. T. A. 

 Cliapman, a specimen of HydrcBcia hurroivsi, Chpmn., a new species that has 

 turned tip (from Vladivostok) since Mr. Burrows's paper on the group was 

 written ; also a specimen of Lycsena {Alhulina) jjiheretes, 9 , bred at Reigate 

 from the egg, supposed to be the first (and only) bred example of the species. 

 Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited two uncommon Sudanese butterflies, Calopieris 

 eulimene and Tcracolus pleione,andveiid notes on them. Colonel Yerbury observed 

 that the yellow ? 9 of Teracolus pleione were much brighter at Aden 

 than those now exhibited. Mr. S. A Neave exhibited some specimens 

 of the Asilid genus Hyperechia, representing three, perhaps four, species, 

 all taken during his recent tour in East Africa. He also showed for com- 

 parison four common species of Xylocopa, bees to which the flies bore a 

 marked superficial resemblance ; also a remarkable new Nymphaline butterfly, 

 probably belonging to the genus Pseudacrsea, taken on Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland. 

 He pointed out that it bore a marvellous superficial resemblance to Amauris 

 lohengula whytei, Butler, the Danaine which occurred in the same place ; also 

 a niunber of unnamed Lycsenidm, principally from Uganda. Mr. Main, series 

 of P. napi and var. hryonix, and observed that pupae from ova of var. bryonim, 

 both from Lapland and Glarus, had produced a partial second brood. Mr. K. G, 

 Blair, larvae of Cebrio sp. (? gigas) from Sicily, which were dug up in a patch 



