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of the Entomological Society of London and fiiends to spend a social 

 evening at his museum at 36, Addison Gardens. After his extensive 

 collections of lepidoptera had been overhauled, he entertained the guests 

 at an excellent supper, after which a most pleasant evening was 

 spent. It is interesting to observe the kindly intercourse that is 

 rapidly spreading among the members of our fraternity, which has 

 for so long hitherto been dependent on the Entomological Club for 

 its entertainment. The following, among others, were present : — 

 Colonel Bingham, Colonel Pilcher, Drs. F. G. Drewitt and N. H. 

 Joy, Messrs. A. J. Chitty, W. L. Distant, H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, 

 H. H. Druce, F. A. Heron, M. Jacoby, A. H. Jones, W. J. Kaye, H. 

 Rowland-Brown, etc. Ill-health alone prevented us from being present 

 in person on this occasion. 



Mr. Lofthouse records the capture of Aylupha.sia :,olUkoferl at 

 Linthorpe, Middlesborough, on September 26th last. Details of the 

 previous captures of this species in Britain are given in " British 

 Noctuae and their Varieties," i., p. 71. 



Mr. E. Saunders, F.R.S., has added Corizm hyaUnnn, Fab. (a 

 Mediterranean species), to the British list, on the strength of a 

 specimen taken by Mr. A. Beaumont, near Gosfield, in Essex. 



Mr. Holdaway records {Ent. Mo. Mat/.) the capture of another 

 specimen of Lencania Inrei/i. This was taken at sugar on 

 September 27th, 1900, at Torquay. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have to announce that one of 

 our oldest correspondents. The Very Reverend Canon Bernard Smith, 

 who has for over half a century been priest at Great Marlow, died in 

 October last, at the ripe age of 89. Also that Dr. Philip B. Mason, 

 of Burton-on-Trent, one of the prominent members of the Entomo- 

 logical Club, and the possessor of one of the finest collections of 

 British lepidoptera that has ever been made, and on which large sums 

 of money have been expended, passed away on November 5th last. 



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The Butterflies of Switzerland and the Alps of Central 

 Europe, by George Wheeler, M.A. (London : Elliot Stock, 62, 

 Paternoster Row, E.C. Price 5s., or interleaved 6s.) — Mr. George 

 Wheeler's Buttertiiea of Snitzerland and the Alps of Central Europe is a 

 welcome addition to the very scanty literature of the British butterfly- 

 hunter abroad. Dr. Lang's pioneer volume as a library contribution 

 to our knowledge, is not for the knapsack, and much has been 

 discovered which, fifteen or twenty years ago, was not available to the 

 author. Mr. Kane's handier Manual also suffers somewhat from 

 " anno domini," and a revised edition would, no doubt, witness the 

 elimination of a few patent errors, and the addition of much that, 

 by force of circumstances, is left unwritten. In the matter of 

 nomenclature, however, we cannot honestly say that we think Mr. 

 Wheeler has improved on either. The average collector — and we 

 make so bold as to suppose that Mr. Wheeler addresses himself to 

 this class particularly — does not care a dead mite for priority fancies. 

 He asks for uniformity at any price, and, in the existing welter of 

 opinions, will not bother his head about who misspelled a name first 



