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duplicate an account of Sphinx convolvuli larvae taken at Eoystone, by 

 Mr. Whitaker. This capture may be important, but we would have 

 preferred the list of " Everingham Lepidoptera " that has been 

 promised on the cover of The Naturalist so long to the duplication. 



We are pleased to see that M, Lambillion is about to publish a 

 work entitled " Histoire Naturelle et Moeurs de tous les Papillons de 

 Belgique." The first volume will contain an account of the 103 

 Belgian butterflies, under the headings — Imago, Egg, Larva, Pupa, 

 Foodplants, Time of Appearance, Localities, and Geographical 

 Distribution. We are particularly anxious that the work should give 

 a really complete list of all the known Belgian localities, for all except 

 the most common species, as such a list, if sufficiently complete, 

 would probably throw light on the distribution of some of our own 

 more local forms. The subscription price for the volume is only six 

 francs. (Published by Messrs. Douxfils, Namur, Belgique.) 



Mr. Verrall's new edition of his " List of British Diptera " will be 

 published in December, and will be obtainable from him price 1/-, or 

 printed on one side only price 2/-. 



We are requested to remind the Fellows of the Entomological 

 Society of London that dinner takes place after each Council meeting 

 and before the ordinary meeting, at Pagani's, at 7 p.m. Fellows are 

 kindly invited and welcomed. Particulars of Mr. H. Eowland-Brown, 

 Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald. 



Another very useful little monograph appears from the pen of M. L. 

 Dupont, entitled " Les Procrines dela Normandie." We wish we could 

 persuade M. Dupont to use a form of generic synonymy that is in 

 strict accord with " the laws of priority," and thus lend his support 

 to the attempt now being made by advanced workers to secure 

 uniformity of nomenclature that can only be disturbed by the con- 

 sideration of works not yet thoroughly studied. The contents of this 

 brochure are in every way useful and accurate, and have a special 

 interest to British lepidopterists owing to the similarity between the 

 fauna of southern England and Normandy. 



At the meeting of the Entom. Society of London, held on November 

 6th, 1901, Mr. F. B.Jennings exhibited a specimen of Trachi/phloeusmjir- 

 mecophilus, Seidl., taken at Hastings in September last, retaining intact 

 the deciduous "false mandibles," with the aid of which the imago of 

 the species of this and certain other genera of weevils is said to work 

 its way to the surface after emerging from the pupa underground. 

 These mandibles are usually shed as soon as the imago begins its life 

 above ground, as there is no further use for them. 



At the same meeting Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a collection of 

 butterflies made by him in Trinidad, with several hitherto undescribed 

 species. He said that the probable total of the rhopalocerous fauna was 

 about 250 species, the island — about the size of Somersetshire — being 

 thus remarkably rich in butterflies. The numbers of the species in the 

 families exhibited were 34 Xijuijihalidae, 13 Sati/ridac, 6 Pajiilionidae, 

 31 Pieridae, 29 Krijcinidac, 27 Li/caciiidac, 62 Hcsperiidae — nearly all 

 taken within three or four miles of Port of Spain. The series of Heli- 

 coninstiicliinia and Tithoica tiiri/ara yslY. jiavcscens were particularly fine, 

 showing the yellow coloration only found in these species in Trinidad 

 and upon the coast of Venezuela immediately opposite. A long series of 

 Fapiliu wiixis and Papilio abjattm, many of them bred from the same 



