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will be available only for men. The Executive Committee invites an 

 early provisional notice of intention to join the Congress, in order to 

 be able to make the arrangements for the necessary accommodation. 

 We understand that the Procecdini/fi of the First Congress are in the 

 press and will be published shortly. All communications and enquiries 

 should be addressed to the Hon. General Secretary of the Executive 

 Committee, Dr. Malcolm Burr, c/o The Entomological Society of 

 London, 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. 



We understand that there is no truth in the rumour which has 

 been current that Messrs. Kernen, the new publishers of Seitz's Macro- 

 li'pidoptera of the World, contemplate the discontinuance of the work 

 with the completion of the current volumes. Such a lapse would be 

 an immense loss to the study of lepidoptera throughout the world. 

 When we remember the price of most of the more reliable and well 

 illustrated works hitherto published on this group, we think it is 

 marvellous to be able to obtain a volume of 8,470 coloured figures, 

 generally excellent and faithful representations, with concise explan- 

 atory letterpress, for the small outlay of £3. We must certainly write 

 it down as " reliable and cheap," for it most certainly belies the phrase 

 usually associated with the word " cheap." 



We regret to announce the death on October 23rd of Edith 

 Wollaston, widow of the late T. Vernon Wollaston, the well-known 

 coleopterist and explorer of the Madeira and Canary Isles and also of 

 St. Helena. Marrying at a very early age, she threw herself heartily 

 into her husband's journeyings and entomological excursions, which, 

 however, were nearly all taken on account of the delicate state of his 

 health. She camped out with him on the north side of Madeira, and 

 helped to enlarge his collection considerably, both in coleoptera and 

 lepidoptera, the latter were, however, her favourite group, and on their 

 return from a prolonged sojourn in St. Helena, she set herself the task of 

 working out this section of their collections, the result of which 

 appeared in the Annals ami Maij. of Nat. Hiatori/ for the year 1879, 

 when she resorded ninety-four species from that rock, of which only 

 four were butterflies. In this paper, she described thirty-eight new 

 species, all but two being Tineina. Mrs. Wollaston was the daughter 

 of the late ]Mr. Joseph Shepherd, of Bristol. She has done but little 

 collecting since her husband's death, the delicate state of her health 

 making it necessary for her to be lying down a large portion of the 

 day. She leaves no issue. — G.T.B-B. 



Mr. Donisthorpe writes that he has taken specimens of Eryx 

 fainnairei, Reiche, a species of Coleoptera new to the British fauna, 

 in Sherwood Forest. An article describing this beetle will appear 

 shortly. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — September lith.- — -Melanic Lithosia deplana. — Mr. Turner exhibited 

 the photograph of a very dark specimen of LithoHia deplana {helreola) 

 sent him by Mr. Cockayne and asked if such melanic specimens had 

 been recorded. Variation in Pieris napi in 1911. — Mr. Grosvenor, 

 an extensive series of I'ieris napi taken and bred in 1911, selected to 

 show every phase of variation obtained, including a gynandromorph, 



