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trunk ; on tall shrubs the larvae may be found working high up in the 

 stems. The pupa, which is very active, lies some distance from the 

 bottom of the gallery, but may move considerably therein. Half -grown 

 and nearly mature larvae are very plentiful ni winter. The wood- 

 boring habit of the larva is interesting, but Williams says is not 

 unique among the Alucitidei>. 



Mr. Oscar Schultz sends us his fifth contribution to a " Catalogue 

 of gynandromorphous lepidoptera," reprinted from the Ent. Zeits. 

 Guben. The new part contains records of 125 examples — 51 butterflies, 

 17 Sphingids, 36 Lymantriids, Arctiids, Lachneids, Dimorphids, 

 Attacids, and Notodontids (still all lumped together as Bombyces), 12 

 Noctuids, and 9 Geometrids. This brings the grand total of recorded 

 examples up to 514, 162, 379, 41, and 103 in these groups respectively. 



The last meeting of the Entomological Club was held on the 

 evening of March 12th, at " Wellfield," Lewisham, at 6.30 p.m., 

 when the members and friends were received hy Mr. and Mrs. Adkin. 

 Tea was served by Mrs. and Miss Adkin, and then some time was 

 spent in looking over some of the special things in Mr. Adkin's 

 excellent collection. Supper was served at 8 p.m., the following 

 members and friends being noted. Messrs. R. A. Adkin, Armstrong, 

 J. E. ColHn, W. Distant', H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, T. Hall, A. 

 Harrison, H. Main, G. T. Porritt, A. Sich, R. South, and J. W. Tutt. 

 Many invitations unfortunately had to be declined owing to the ill- 

 health that appears to be so prevalent just at present. 



Mr. Frohawk describes (Ent.) the general features of the life- 

 history of Ar(j!/nnis laodicr, from which we learn, among other interest- 

 ing items, that the larva hybernates in the egg-shell, as in the case with 

 A. aiUppe and A. niobe, and not outside the egg-shell, as in A. aglaia. 

 The larvi© seem to hatch (February 19th) almost at the same time as 

 those of A. adippe. The coloured plate illustrating the notes, the 

 work of Werner and Winter, Frankfort-on-Main, appears to be 

 exceptionally well done, and does credit to Mr. Frohawk's careful 

 drawing. 



The second volume of "The Moths of the British Isles," by Mr. R. 

 South, has now been published, and continues the good features of the 

 preceding one, the plates being on the whole equally well-done, and 

 letterpress as much as could be got into the limited space at disposal. 

 Some of the colour- work is very satisfactory, and, of the black and 

 white reproductions, the half-tones from Mr. Main's photographs, and 

 the life-like appearance of some of the larvfe drawn by Mr. Sich, are 

 alike excellent. Mr. South still maintains the unfortunate union of 

 Tc'phrosia bistortata and 2\ crepiiscularia (biundtdaria), whilst in another 

 place (p. 116), Mr. South doubts Mr. Prout's determination of Acidalia 

 dilutaria (misspelt dilataria), Hb. ; he also advances the (tons) unten- 

 able theory that Anthrocera stephensi (hippocrepidis) may be the hybrid 

 offspring of Anthrocera trifoUi and A. filipendulae, in which case there 

 must be, in some localities, every year, hundreds of hybrids, with the 

 same facies. We took nearly 400 in two days in 1893, in one field, 

 and have often seen them as numerous in other years. On the whole, 

 however, the book is remarkably free from these little walks into the 

 region of doubt, an excellent feature in a book essentially intended for 

 beginners. 



One little paragraph in the " preface " of this book, however, 



