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occupies six lines, and in these six lines the food-plant is incorrectly 

 given ; the pupa four lines. The only incidental scientific statement 

 made reads, " when disturbed the larva slioots out a forked orange- 

 coloured appendage from behind the head which, no doubt, is in some 

 way a protection" (The italics are ours). The two plates are excellent, 

 but altogether wasted on sucii letter-press. It would be interesting to 

 know how many parts of eight pages each will be required to deal witli 

 the Macro-lepidojitera. We should think at least two hundred, be 

 the accounts never so meagre. As the parts are to be published 

 quarterly, it might be well for intending purchasers to arrange specially 

 for the delivery of the latter parts. The book supplies no want, 

 and competes but poorly with existing cheap works. 



goCIETIES. 



The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of London, 

 was held on January 16th, 1895. The Treasurer's report showed a 

 good balance in the Society's favour. Prof. Eaphael Meldola, F.R.S., 

 was elected President for 1895, and has appointed Lord Walsingham, 

 L.L.D., F.R.S., Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.L.S., and Prof. E. B. Poulton, 

 M.A., F.R.S., as Vice-Presidents for the Session 1895-6. Mr. Herbert 

 Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., are the 

 Secretaries. The out-going President, Mr. H. J. Elwes, delivered an 

 address '' On the Geographical Distribution of Insects." He remarked 

 that though a gi'cat deal had been written of late years on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Plants, Mammals, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles, 

 comparatively little had yet been done by Entomologists to show how 

 natural divisions of the Earth's surface which have been established for 

 other classes were aj^plicable to insects. Perhaps the proportion of 

 known as compared with unknown insects was still too small, and the 

 classification of the known species still too uncertain, to allow anything 

 like the same methods to be ajjplied to insects that had been used for 

 mammals by Dr. Wallace, for birds by Dr. Sclater and Dr. Bowdler- 

 Sharpe, and for jilants by Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. Thistleton Dyer and 

 Mr. W. B. Hemsley. The President enumerated the genera of the 

 Rhopalocera, and pointed out which of them were characteristic of the 

 various Regions and Sub-regions into which the world had been divided 

 by the Zoologists and Botanists above-mentioned. He also exhibited 

 specimens typical of these Regions and Sub-regions. The President 

 then alluded to the prosperous condition of the Society, and to the 

 increase in its numbers and income. Reference was also made to various 

 Fellows of the Society and other Entomologists who had died during 

 the year, special mention being made of Herr H. T. Christoph, Mr. J. 

 Jenner Weir, Dr. F. Buchanan White, Mons. Lucien F. Lethierry, 

 Pastor Wallengren, Dr. Jacol) Spiinberg, Major-General Garden, Dr. 

 Hearder and Mr. Wellman. 



We are glad to add The North London Natural History Society 

 to the list of the Societies of Avhose doings we are able, from time to 

 time, to give some account. The indefatigable Secretary of the Society 

 is Mr. L. J. Tremayne, 4, Lanark Villas, Maida Vale, W. At the 

 meeting on Jan. 2-ith, Mr. Bacot exhibited a specimen of Ni/ssia 

 hispidarid, which had wings, thorax and head of a male, witli the body 

 of a female. Mr. Rose reported the abundance of Vanessa antiopa on 

 the Continent during the past season. Mr. Nicholson indulged in a 



