98 the entomologist's record. 



dehiscence," " Time of appearance," " Habits," " Habitats," " British 

 Localities," and " Distribution." 



The last meeting of the Entomological Club was held on March 

 19th, at 27, Hereford Square, S.W., when Mr. A. J. Chitty was the 

 host. The members and friends, who commenced to arrive soon after 

 6.30 p.m., were received by Mr. and Mrs. Chitty, and afterwards 

 inspected the various entomological treasures collected by Mr. Chitty. 

 At 8.30 a goodly company sat down to supper, including among others 

 Professor T. Hudson Beare, Dr. F. A. Dixey, Dr. Joy, Rev. F. Morice, 

 Messrs. R. Adkin, J. Collin, H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, H. Rowland- 

 Brown, G. C. Champion, T. W. Hall, M. Jacoby, A. H. Jones, W. Kaye, 

 G. Marshall, G. T. Porritt, G. H. Verrall, J. J. Walker, J. W. Tutt, etc. 



We want very badly, larvae of Polyommatus bellarpus in the final 

 and antepenultimate stages, for comparison with larvae of P. corydon. 

 Will some of our readers please oblige ? 



The result of the sale of Lang's beautiful collection of Palaearctic 

 butterflies, at Stevens' auction rooms, on March 19th, could not be 

 considered at all satisfactory from the point of view of the seller. The 

 specimens were all in splendid condition, and, on the whole, possibly 

 did not fetch a tenth of Staudinger's prices. The Satyrids especially 

 appeared to be given away. A lump sum of £10 was offered for the 

 Papilios, but this was refused, although, under the hammer, and sold 

 by lots, they only produced £9 10s. A sum of £40 was offered for the 

 Parnassiids and Thaids ; this also was refused, and the specimens 

 fetched £44 8s. For the Pierids a sum of £10 was offered, and these 

 ultimately produced 13 guineas under the hammer, whilst the Coliads 

 produced £50 10s. 6d. The Nymphalids produced £37 3s. 6d., whilst 

 a long and magnificent series of Satyrids, including all the rarest 

 Paltearctic species, brought only £13 Is. The Ruralids, for which £20 

 was offered, produced £28 lis., and the Urbicolids £8 18s. As 

 showing the lowness of prices at the sale, it may be noticed that a pair 

 of very fair British Ohrysophanus dispar were sold for £2. One suspects 

 that, in actual cash, Dr. Lang must have spent much more in buying 

 the rarities of the collection than the whole produced. 



Students of variation of European butterflies and moths should 

 provide themselves with Aigner-Abafi's Schmetterlings-Aberrationen aus 

 fier Sammlung des ungarischen National Museums, with two coloured 

 plates and 23 figures in the text (published by Franklin-Tarsulat, 

 Budapest). There are also several new forms described in his " Neue 

 Falterformen aus Ungarn " (Ent. Zeits. Ouben, vol. xix., no. 35) 

 (published by H. Scholz, Guben). We wonder which of the forms of 

 Malacosoma neustria he renames ab. unicolor. The author seems to 

 have quite overlooked our notes on the variation of this species (Nat. 

 Hist. Brit. Lep., ii., pp. 548-9) where the five unicolorous forms of 

 this species are dealt with. We believe a few of the other forms here 

 described have already been named. It is most interesting, however, 

 to have this increased knowledge of the distribution of some of these 

 rarer aberrations. 



The second part of the Bulletin of the Societe lepidopterologigue <!<' 

 Geneve is to hand, and the contents and get-up are not only worthy 

 of a young society, but do the greatest credit to a town, steeped in 

 science from the days of Bonnet, and kept at the highest level by de 

 Saussure and other great leaders of the last century. To Messrs. 



