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Fellows of the Society who had died during the yeai*, special mention 

 being made of Mr. Henry W. Bates, F.R.S., Professor Hermann C. C. 

 Bnrmeister, M.D., Dr. Carl A, Dohrn, Mr. H. Berkeley-James, Mr. J. 

 T. Harris, Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.E.S., Mr. Henry T. Stainton, 

 F.E.S., Mr. Howard Vaughan and Professor J. 0. Westwood, M.A., 

 the Hon. Life-President. A vote of thanks to the President having 

 been proposed by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. and seconded by Mr. J. H. 

 Leecli, Mr. Godman replied. Dr. D. Sharp, F.E.S., then proposed a 

 vote of thanks to the Secretaries, Ti'easnrer and Librarian, which was 

 seconded by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Goss and 

 Canon Fowler then severally replied, and the proceedings terminated. 



The first Annual Exhibition of the North London Natural History 

 Society was held in the Lecture Hall of the North-East London 

 Institute, on the evening of Saturday, 7th January, when most branches 

 of Natural History were represented in the exhibits. About twenty 

 members showed cases of British Lepidoptera, including series of 

 C edusa taken last year (with examples of the var. Jielice) by Messrs. 

 A. J. Hodges, L. B. Prout and C. B. Smith ; also C. hyate by Mr. A. 

 Quail. Among others were T. subsequa, by Messrs. A. J. Hodges (a 

 series from the I. of Wight) and E. W. Bobbins (from Lyndhurst) ; 

 A. iris, from Lyndhurst, by Messrs. A. U. Battley and J. A. Simes ; 

 many beautiful Papilios from British Columbia, by Mr. A. Eose ; and 

 some remarkable varieties of British species by Mr. F. G. Hanbury, 

 F.E.S. Living larva? and pupa? of Neuroptera were also shown by 

 Mr. E. M. Wattson. 



The jDlace of the late Mr. H. T. Stainton on the editorial staff of 

 the Ent. Mo. Mag. has been offered to and accej^ted by Lord Walsingham. 

 Photographs of the late Professor Westwood and H. T. Stainton appear 

 in the current number of that Magazine. That of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell 

 appears in the current number of the British Naturalist. 



Little enough is known yet of the entomology of Ireland. Those 

 interested in the fauna of the sister island will be pleased to see the 

 list of Hemiptera taken in the north of Ireland by the Eev. W. F. 

 Johnson, published in the current number of the Ent. Mo. Mag. 



Mr. Bignell has detected a new si:)ecies of Pimpla which he has 

 named epirce. He describes it from four females, bred July, 1891, 

 from cocoons found in the egg-bag of the spider Epeira cornuta at 

 I\'y bridge. 



Mr. Porritt describes the larva of, and Dr. Chapman gives some 

 critical notes on, the affinity, as shown by the egg, larva and pupa, of 

 Dyschorista snspecta. Dr. Chapman says : — " In larvse and pupa?, the 

 species of Xanthia and Orthosia differ from each other often in small 

 matters only, and Glcea (Orrhodia) is not far off, but suspecta much more 

 resembles Glcea than it does Xanthia or Orthosia, at least, as pupa, and 

 as egg and young larva." This apj^ears conclusive proof that its 

 separation of suspecta from Orthosia generically, as has long been done 

 on the Continent, is fully warranted. 



Mr. Atmore records both Steganoptycha pygmceana and S. ahiegana, 

 as well as Halonota ravulana, from the neighbourhood of King's Lynn. 

 He also notes a probably new Gelechia from Suceda fruticosa. Mr. 

 Eustace Bankes records Gelechia tetragonella and Micropteryx Icaltenbachii 

 from the Isle of Purbeck. 



Mr. J. E. Eobson of Hartlepool, comes to London to read a paper 



