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Treasurer : Albert Hugh Jones, F.E.S. Secretaries : Henry Rowland 

 Brown, M.A., F.E.S. ; Commander James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. Librarian : George C. Champion, F.Z.S., F.E.S. Council : 

 Gilbert John Arrow, F.E.S.; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bingham, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S.; Dr. Thomas A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S.; 

 James Edward Collin, F.E.S. ; Dr. Frederick A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 

 F.E.S. ; Hamilton H. C. J. Druce, F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; Herbert Goss, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S. ; William John Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. ; Prof. Edward 

 r.. Poiilton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.E.S. ; Louis Beethoven Prout, 

 F.E.S. ; Edward Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.E.S. ; Colonel John W. 

 Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. The annual meeting will be held on 

 January isth, 1905, at 8 p.m., when Prof. E. B. Poulton will read his 

 retiring Presidential Address. 



British lepidopterists who hunt European butterflies have, on 

 the whole, an excellent reputation for accuracy in naming their 

 captures among their continental confrh-en, but, with the increase 

 in our numbers, and a failure to edit evident errors out of exist- 

 ence, this reputation looks like being lost. In the Kntoiiwloiiist, 

 last year (1908). Mr. Denis Turner recorded the common ('ociKmi/inpJia 

 atrania from lirittany as ('. iphii^ (see antca, xv., p. 278). In the 

 current number of the Kntomoloiiist, p. 301, Mr. Meade- Waldo ptates 

 that he found Vanesm et/ea-'- tolerably common at Gace in Normandy. 

 He may have done so, of course, but wc feel we should like to see 

 some oi these specimens, and also those of one or two other species 

 reported as captured. Pictures of common European butterflies are 

 not difficult to get for reference. We notice also, in the same number 

 of the Kntnmoloi/ist, that Mr. G. H. Gurney, in this year (1904), at 

 Guines, between Boulogne and Calais, found Apatura irU just out on 

 August 20th, whilst LimenitU sibijlla swarmed on every side, and A. 

 selimc and A. eii/iln-oftj/ue were common enough with A. paphia in 

 beautiful fresh condition, and A. adippe, worn, &c., whilst Thecla 

 n-albiim and T. pnini were both occurring with T. ijKcinh and T. 

 hftidac. From June onwards, the season this year (1901) has been in 

 central Europe remarkably early, and we suspect something hopelessly 

 wrong here as to dates or captures, and that some of the fifty species 

 of British butterflies which "one may get here in June, July, and 

 August," have been unwittingly added to those actually caught on 

 August 20th and the following days. The French entomologists will 

 have much real fault to find with perfidious Albion, if many records 

 like these find place in our entomological magazines. We applied to 

 Mr. Gurney for a sight of these captures, and were informed we might 

 see them if we called on him in Norfolk, Mr. Gurney naively adding : 

 " If you look at any of the standard works on European butterflies 

 you will find that the majority of the ' Hairstreaks ' fly in August," 

 Sec. We wonder which of the " standard works" we ought to refer to. 



Mr. E. A. Butler records {hhit. Mo. \la<i.) the addition of two 

 species of Hemiptera to the British list. The first of these is Pri/mits 



• To make sure that we ourselves were not at fault, we (Iropped ii note to M. 

 Oberthiir, who writes : " Vniiexnti (Polyqouui) egea does not appear to ko west 

 beyond Montpellier. I have never seen it in the I'yronues-Orientales, although 

 not rare in the Alpes-Maritimes, particularly in the environs of Nice. North- 

 wards egea does not occur beyond Avignon. The species inhabits the south-east of 

 France ; it does not live in the south-west ; it has never been found in the centre 

 or north. The species has never been taken in Normandy." — En. 



