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made that is not based on personal experience. We think the question of preventives 

 and remedies will be treated at length in a second lecture ; but they are touched 

 upon somewhat at length in the present paper, hydrocyanic gas and kerosine emul- 

 sion taking first place. It is gratifying to find that the state of beech trees badly 

 attacked by Cryptococcus fagi is not so hopeless as was formerly considered. We 

 understand that copies of this most excellent article can be obtained from the 

 author, Grosvenor Museum, Chester. 



Teichopteetgia illusteata et desceipta, a Monogeaph of the Tei- 

 CHOPTEHYGiA, Supplement : by the late Rev. A. Matthews ; edited by P. B. 

 Mason : pp. 1 — 114, with seven plates. London : O. E. Janson and Son, 1900. 



In reviewing the Monograph of the CorylophidcB and SphceriidcB by the same 

 author {antea, p. 66), we ventured to express a hope that the Supplement to the 

 Trichopterygia would soon be published. This has now been issued. It contains 

 full descriptions of all the new genera and species known to Mr. Matthews that 

 have been brought to light since the publication of the previous volume, in 1872, 

 two species only being added in the present work. Brief translations of the de- 

 scriptions of the species recorded by other authors since that date are given on 

 pp. 2 — 7, and a systematic list of all the Trichopterygia (under which Mr. Matthews 

 includes Hydroscapha, as the type of a separate family) known to him is given on 

 pp. 8 — 11. The structural characters of eight genera are fully shown on the plates 

 (Mr. Matthews' original drawings having been successfully transferred to zinc by 

 Mr. J. Collin, of Newmarket, as before), Hydroscapha being illustrated by a photo- 

 graphic reproduction of the plate previously published in Mr. Matthews' " Essay 

 on Hydroscapha " (1876) ; this genus is regarded by him as a connecting link 

 between the Trichopterygida and Staphylinidce. Mr. Mason is to be congratulated 

 at having successfully concluded the task of seeing his late friend's unpublished 

 work through the press. — G-. C. C. 



BlEMINGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : July XQth, 1900. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Bakee, President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. C. F. Thornewill was elected a Member of the Society. 



A letter was read from Mr. G. H. Kenrick, announcing his purchase of the late 

 Mr. W. G. Blatch's special collection of Midland Coleoptera for the City of Bir- 

 mingham, and his intention of placing it in the charge of this Society until Birming- 

 ham had a Museum to receive it. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited a series of Libellula depressa taken at various 

 places this year, Selsby, Glos., Moseley, London, &c.,and remarked that it appeared 

 to have been exceptionally abundant and widely distributed this year. Mr. C. J. 

 Wain Wright, short series of Trypeta onotrophes from St. Ive's, Cornwall, and T. 

 tussilaginis from West Hide, Hereford.— Colbean J. Wainweight, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal Histoey Society : 

 June 28ih, 1900.— Mr, W. J. LccAS, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Kemp exhibited (1) a var. of Bombyx rubi, in which the bands on the 



