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reduced to mere dots) and the broad black margin of the hindwings, 

 sometimes reachinp: to their middle. 



A proposed new Entomological Exchange Club for the British Isles 

 is under consideration by the City of London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, and suggested rules, on similar lines to those 

 of the long-established and very successful l^otanical Exchange Club,, 

 are published in the Kut(molo<jii<t for January (vol. xxxvi., p. 16). 

 "We understand that Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.8., Caracas, Ditton Hill, 

 Surbiton, is anxious to enter into correspondence with lepidopterist^ 

 who may be interested in the proposed movement, and invites further 

 suggestions for carrying it into eft'ect. 



Herr W. Neuburger describes [Soc. F.nt., xvii., p. 155) a new al)er- 

 ration of (innjilirla riibricollis as ab. ttaricolli^^, Neubr. Its collar is 

 bright yellow instead of red, and the ground colour of the forewings 

 is more brownish (less black) than in the type. He has received a 

 number from Dr. Ed. Fleck, from Az.uga, Roumania. 



The Ofiicers and Council of the Entomological Society of London 

 for 190;-? are : — President, Professor Edward I>. Poulton, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S ; Sec- 

 retaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and Mv. Henry RoAvland- 

 Brown, IM.A. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and 

 as other Members of Council, Colonel Charles T. Bingham, F.Z.S. ; 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr, B.A., F.L.S. ; Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, F.Z.S. ; 

 Mr. Arthur John Chitty, M.A. ; Mr. Hamilton H. C. J. Daice, F.Z.S. ; 

 the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. ; Professor Raphael 

 Meldola, F.R.S. ; Professor Louis Compton Miall, F.R.S, ; the Rev. 

 Francis D. Morice, M.A. : Dr. David Sharp. M.A. , F.R.S. ; Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe. ^I.A., F.L.S. ; and Colonel John W. Yerbury, R.A.,. 

 F.Z.S. It was announced that Professor Pouhon, the new President,, 

 would appoint the Rev. Dr. Fowler, Professor jNIeldola, F.R.S., and 

 Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1908-1904. 



At the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of London,, 

 held January 21st, 1903, Canon Fowler, the retiring President, in the 

 first part of his address, dealt chiefly with many facts that have 

 been recently brought forward with regard to cryptic coloration and 

 mimicry, more especially as aft'ecting the order coleoptera ; the facts,., 

 he says, are indisputable, but the hypotheses founded upon them are, he 

 considers, perhaps, sometimes pressed too far. In the second part,, 

 the question of the origin of the coleoptera was discussed. Canon 

 Fowler states that there is no satisfactory evidence of the appear- 

 ance of the Order in the Paheozoic period, but the leading families 

 are found in the Lias, as completely ditt'erentiated as at the present 

 time ; in fact, many of the genera and even the species of coleoptera 

 are almost identical with those now living and appear to have altered 

 but little from the time at which they existed side by side with the 

 gigantic extinct saurians and the pterodactyles ; the whole question 

 of the origin and history of the insects generally is of the first 

 importance in the history of evolution. 



The Hon. Secretary of the New Forest Natural History Society, 

 which is under the Presidency of the Hon. John Scott Montagu, M.P. 

 of Beaulieu, makes appeal to entomologists who visit the Forest tO' 

 become members. Copies of the rules, etc., can be obtained from Mr.. 

 E. Morris, lirockenhurst. 



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