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a uniform ground colour ; Mr. Schill, Hydrous angtistior from Milan, 

 flying round electric light ; Mr. Stott, a collection of local Hydradephaga ; 

 and Mr. Pierce, Agrotis candelaruvi from Saxony, and its British var. 

 ashworthii. — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — February ist. — The Secre- 

 tary read the annual report of the council, which showed the number of 

 members to be about the same as at the last annual meeting; and the Trea- 

 surer presented his annual report, showing a balance in hand of^4 1 8s. 4d. 

 The following officers for the ensuing year were elected : — President, 

 Mr. W. G. Blatch, F.E.S. ; Vice-President, Mr. G. H. Kenrick, F.E.S. ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. R. C. Bradley ; Librarian, Mr. A. Johnson ; Auditors, 

 Messrs. Herbert Stone, F.L.S., and A. Stone Wainwright ; and Hon. 

 Sec, Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright ; Messrs. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., and G. W. Wynn, were elected as remaining members of the 

 council. Mr. C. Runge showed cocoons of Trochilium apiformis, 

 containing larvae, which he had dug out of poplars near the roots, at 

 Arley. 



February 8t/i. — Social Meeting. — By invitation of the council, the 

 members and a few friends met at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, to 

 spend a social evening. A number of interesting books and insects 

 were shown and discussed, and music was kindly provided by a few 

 members and friends. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



^^OTICES, REVIEWS, Etc. 



The British Noctu^ and their Varieties, Vol. H., by J. W. 

 TuTT, F.E.S., published by Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., Paternoster 

 Square. Price "js. — Some two years ago, circulars were sent to some 

 of our leading lepidopterists, stating that, if sufficient names were 

 obtained, a work on "The British Noctuae and their Varieties" 

 would be published. Newman's British Moihs is twenty years old, 

 and Stainton's Manual thirty-four years, so that nothing complete on 

 any family of the macro-lepidoptera had appeared for some time. 

 Some 200 lepidopterists at once responded, including the Rt. Hon. 

 Earl Waldegrave ; the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, Ex-Pres. of the 

 Ent. Soc. of Lond. ; Mons. Oberthlir, Ex-Pres. of the Ent. Soc. of 

 France ; Herr Snellen, Ex-Pres. of the Ent. Soc. of Belgium ; Mr. H. 

 T. Stainton, F.R.S., Editor of the E.M.M. : Mr. J. Jenner Weir, 

 F.L.S., one of the Editors of the Entom. ; Mr. J. E. Robson, F.E.S., 

 Editor of the British Naturalist; Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., Ex- 

 President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; the Presidents of the 

 City of London, Lancashire and Cheshire, Birmingham, West Sussex, 

 and other Societies, etc. After some delay, owing to the publishers, 

 the first vol. was brought out in May last, the second appeared last 

 weekj the third (and last on this family) is well in hand. There must 

 be a considerable number of young lepidopterists who did not have 

 circulars at the time, who may be willing to subscribe for the only 

 work on the Noctu/e which attempts to bring our knowledge up to 

 date. If so, the author would be very pleased to have names and 

 addresses. Those who subscribe direct to him for the whole work, 

 get it for 5s. 6d. per vol., instead of 7s. — Ed. 



