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Willem Roelofs. — Information has been received of the death of this well 

 known Coleopterist while on a journey from The Hague to Brussels. He was Dutch 

 by birth, but was for many years resident in Brussels, and was known as an artist of 

 distinction, and especially as a landscape painter. He was one of the foundation 

 Members of the Belgian Entomological Society (1856), and was its President in 

 1878-79. As a specialist he studied the CiircidionidcB, and published many memoirs 

 on the Family, mostly in the " Annales " of the Society above named. 



Hemipteea GrMNOCEEATA ExTROP^, Tomc V: by O. M. Kefter. 4to, 

 pp.392. 10 plates (8 coloured). Helsingfors. 1896. 



The 5th Vol. of this important work brings it up to the end of the Capsaria, 

 and is devoted entirely to the genera and species of that division ; it also contains 

 a systematic as well as an alphabetical index, the latter including all the synonyms 

 of the genera and species, and concludes with a Supplement giving a conspectus of 

 the genera, followed by a separate one of the 8]5ecies, both treated dichotomously. 

 Vol. I, pp. 1-187, plates 1-8, dealt with the Plagiognatharia. Vol. II, pp. 1-312, 

 plates 1-5, with the Oncotylaria, followed by additions and corrections to Vol. I. 

 Vol. Ill, pp. 313-568, plates 1-5, with the Nasocoraria, Cyllocoraria, and Dicy- 

 pharia, followed by addenda and corrigenda to Vols. I and II, and a " Dispositio 

 Synonimica " of the species and genera contained in Vols. I to III, and of the Family 

 divisions. Vol. IV, pp. 1-179, plates 1-6, contains the seven divisions from Boopi- 

 docoraria to Pilophoraria, and the synoptical tables connected therewith. In these 

 five Volumes we are supplied with an exhaustive treatise on the subject ; the de- 

 scriptions are detailed, and are preceded by full synonymy, the synoptical tables 

 are carefully worked out, and the structural and coloured plates are excellent. No 

 work of like importance has been produced on the Hemiptera, and it is to be hoped 

 that now the most difficult part of the work, i. e., the Capsida, is nearly completed, 

 we shall soon have the entire work before us. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 June 10th, 1897.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. James N. Smith, of 28, Eastdown Park, Lcwisham, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a larva of Tephrosia crepuscuJaria beaten from yew, 

 and a short series of imagines bred as a second brood from larvae taken at the same 

 place last year ; he stated that the larvae of T. biundularia from both Yorkshire and 

 Epping were quite distinct from the larvae of T. crepuscularia in marking and color- 

 ation. Mr. Tutt remarked that the young larvae of both species were similar to the 

 young larvae of the Ennomids, in being black with more or less complete white rings, 

 but said that such similarity did not necessarily show close relationship always. Mr. 



