280 THE entomologist's record. 



C. Ferin, A. F. Griffith, W. Farren, T. Baxter and Lord Walsingharn 

 are well to the front. It is advisable, before leaving the collecting 

 portion of our work to notice the success of Dr. Chapman in 

 hybridising A/nphidasys prodromaria and A. betularia, and that of 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher in crossing Zygcena lonicerce with Z. filipendula, 

 and Z. lonicerce with Z. trifolii. 



From the collector to the chief articles in our magazines is an easy 

 step, and here, far and away the best are those of Drs. Chapman and 

 Wood. It is doj-ibtful whether anything so good, relating to the 

 physiological aspect of entomology, has before been brought before the 

 entomological public. Mr. Fenn's diagnosis of Cidaria truncata and 

 C. ivunanata is, perhaps, the best paper of its kind printed this year ; 

 whilst the notes of Dr. Buckell and other entomologists on '• Wing 

 Expansion " are increasing our physiological knowledge in another 

 direction. Tiie Mo?iograph of British Pte.ropiwrina brings up our 

 knowledge of this group to date, and many a macro-collector, who does 

 not generally dabble in micros, will be enabled to study this group. A 

 cheap monograph on the group has long been a desideratum. The 

 series of papers on " Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidop- 

 tera " has been brought to a close, and can now be obtained bound 

 in cloth in a separate volume. 



The Societies all round have done well. The Entomological Society 

 of London has gone on in its prosperous way. Series of papers of the 

 utmost scientific value have been printed. The City of London 

 Society has done, perhaps, more scientific work than any humble 

 Society has ever before attempted, as the list of papers read before the 

 Society, and published month by month in the Record, testifies. The 

 South London Society, under one of our very best collectors, has not a 

 barren record this year. Two years' reports in one volume were 

 published e^rly in the year. The Annual Exhibition was a great 

 success. Last year's Report is in hand, and, when Mr. Tugwell leaves 

 the chair, if he can only get this part of the work well forward, he 

 can certainly look back to a successful year of office. The Lancashire 

 and Cheshire and the Birmingham Societies do their best, and run the 

 London Societies close, but have, I believe, not yet adopted any 

 systematic plan of printing their scientific papers. 



Of the publications, the Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London are quite up to their usual excellence. ]\Iay I again appeal to 

 entomologists to aid this, our leading society, by becoming members, 

 as its scientific publications are only limited by its income ? The 

 Entomologisf s Monthly Magazine still holds the even tenor of its way, 

 undisturbed by the petty jealousies of its commoner rivals. The 

 British Naturalist has some most interesting entomological matter. 

 Collectors of exotic species can still get a considerable amount of 

 descriptions of new Chinese, Japanese and Indian Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera from the Entomologist, amounting to eighty pages in the 

 present volume. Our own magazine, essentially popular in its contents, 

 increases in favour with the public, who appear to have got at last 

 something to their taste, and a magazine that they can read from 

 beginning to end and understand the whole. 



Of independent works valuable to British lepidopterists, there is very 

 little to record. Local lists of the Lepidoptera of Leicestershire, Suffolk 



