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Mr. South seems to be mixing the study of Vertebrata with En- 

 tomology. Last month, he found one of those continuously recurrent 

 developments, known as "a mare's nest," relating to Noctua confiiia, 

 Tr. This month a similar development appears to have been dis- 

 covered relating to a Continental species called Luperina nickerlii, 

 Frr. 



Mr. Robson received a very hearty welcome at the City of London 

 Society's meeting on Feb. i8th, and read a most interesting paper on 

 "The Genus HepialusT Among other visitors, we noticed Mrs. 

 Bazett, F.E.S., Miss Kimber, F.E.S., Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., R. Adkin, F.E.S., A. Robinson, B.A., F.E.S., and many of our 

 leading London lepidopterists. 



Mr. G. Ehsha, F.E.S., has just concluded, in The British Naturalist, 

 the best series of " Practical Hints " for each month in the year ever 

 published for micro-lepidopterists. 



A paper on " Coleoptera from Central China and the Korea '' has 

 just commenced in the Entomologist. 



The portrait of Mr. S. J, Capper, F.L.S., appears in the current 

 number of The British Naturalist. He is well-known as the father 

 of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



Mr. South's probable error in naming certain larvx from Notts, as 

 those of Apamea ophiogram?7ia, which we pointed out in our 

 "Current Notes," vol. ii., p. 277, has been referred to by Mr. W. H, 

 Harwood, who supposes that the larvae are those of A. unanimis, a 

 surmise which appears very probably correct. 



The attention of London collectors is again directed to the notice 

 of the City of London Entomological Society, re the compilation of 

 the fauna list, which they have in preparation. 



The Hampshire Field Club Papers for the year contain, among a 

 large number of most interesting papers, "The Lepidoptera of 

 Hampshire, Pt. V., Tineina," by the Rev. A. C. Hervey. 



Mr. S. E. Cassino, 832, Exchange Bldg., Boston, Mass., U.S.A., is 

 publishing an lnter7iational Naturalists' Directory and solicits the 

 names and addresses of British Naturalists. 



What an active condition Entomology must be in ! Mr. Reid 

 collects again, by subscription, in Scotland, and Mr. W. Salvage also 

 intends working Sutherlandshire and Inverness. I believe the Shet- 

 lands also are to be worked. Both Messrs. Reid and Salvage want a 

 few subscribers to complete. 



Another of our best private collections, that of Mr. R. E. Sahvey, 

 comes under the hammer this month. The specimens are in first class 

 condition, and contain some remarkably good forms. 



We would call the attention of our micro-lepidopterists to Mr. Head's 

 advertisement this month. 



It is with the greatest regret that we have to record the death of that 

 ardent entomologist Henry \V. Bates, F.R.S., on February i6th. 

 The Naturalist on the Amazons was his most extensive, though by no 

 means his only published work. 



I was very much disappointed to find that the specimen recorded by 

 Mr, C. G. Barrett from Howth {E.M.M., p. 48), "as an exact repre- 

 sentative of the darker Shetland variety," was not N conflua at all, but 

 N. f estiva \3ir. grisea. It was, at the Lond. Ent. Soc. Meeting, com- 



