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and larger part, all oiir British and a few of the more striking European 

 butterflies, with a selection of the representative forms of " Moths," are 

 succinctly dealt with, a large amount of valiiable information being condensed 

 into a relatively small space. We notice a few obvio\is slips, notably on p. 39, 

 where the larva? of our two well-known "Bee-Hawks," Hsernorrhagia tityiis and 

 fuciformis, are bracketed with the " clearwings " and stated to " pass their 

 lives in galleries bored in the living wood until they emerge as perfect 

 insects" (!). Misprints are few and far between, and there is an excellent 

 Index. It is a much less pleasant task to refer to the plates, which, 

 though artistically mounted on brown paper, fall very far short of what 

 illustrations of insects ought to be. A few of the figures, as the two 

 Papilios on Plate I, and the highly-coloured design of Apaturids on the cover, 

 may be regarded as tolerable, but many are crude in the extreme, and some 

 remind one of nothing else than a ehild's first attempt to draw a butterfly. 

 For ourselves, we should like to see the letterpress issiied separately at a low 

 price, as a very useful introductory work on the subject of whicli it treats. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 Thursday, Sept. 12th, 1912.— Mr. A. E. Tonoe, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited an Ephestia sp. bred from an Egyptian date. 

 Mr. Moore, galls found on the wild rose. Mr. Gibbs, a R^imicia phlaeas from 

 Woburn, a combination of ab. radiata and ab. cceruleopunctata. Captain 

 Cardew, an Apatura iris with much fulvous shading on the fore-wings and 

 apex of hind-wings, a series of E^ipithecia suhfulvata bred from Northumber- 

 land, and living larvse of Acidalia immutata. Mr. Curwen, a large summer 

 form of Pieris napi with rays evanescent, Polyommatus icarus ab. semi-arctiata, 

 Agriades coridon with aberrant markings on the undersides, and an Argynnis 

 niohe var. eris with an extremely deep green groiind on the undersides of the 

 hind-wings. Dr. T. A. Chapman, specimens of Agriades alexins and of Polyom- 

 matus icarus ab. icarimis, and gave a detailed account of the former species 

 which Freyer pxit forward in 1858. Mr. Tonge reported Leucania alhipuncta at 

 sugar at Deal, and specimens of Polia chi at Winslow in Bucks. Mr. Sich read 

 his Eeport as delegate to the International Congress of Entomology at Oxford 

 in early August. 



Thursday, Septemher 26th, 1912. — The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited varieties of " blues " taken in the French Alps this 

 year where several species were of unusually large size, they included Polyom- 

 matus icarus resembling P. escheri, Agriades thetis ab. punctifera, a possible 

 hybrid between P. damon and A. coridon, &c. Mr. Colthrup^ long series of 

 Parliygastria trifolii from Eomney and Eastbourne, the former showing much 

 variation, especially in the males ; specimens of Satyrus semele with the eye- 

 spot in the anal angle of the hind wings absent, an unusually large example of 

 Colias edusa ab. helice, &c. Mr. NcAvman, a long bred series of Pajpilio machaon, 



