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collcH't(Ml in August. The t'Dllowiug are also wortliy of note: — On/i/id 

 pudibunda, Hah'a hrnnneafa, Ihiotropha leucostitjma (Throxonby IJog)." 



SIOTICES AND REVIEWS. 



Abstk.\.ct of Pkoceedings of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for the yeah 1894. (Published at the 



Society's rooms, Hibernia Chambers, London Bridge. Price 2s. 6d.). 



The Society is to be congratulated on the very interesting volume of 

 Proceedings which it has just issued, as well as upon the satisfactory 

 condition, both as regards numbers and finances, in which it finds 

 itself. The address of the retiring President, Mr. Edward Step, first 

 demands notice. After an appreciative reference to the members 

 who had died during the year, Messrs. Weir, Wellman and J. T. 

 Williams, attention is directed to the important service which the 

 magic-lantern may render to the illustration of scientific papers. Next 

 follows an earnest protest against the nse of technical and uncouth 

 language wliere the simpler Saxon would be equally exact. Mr. Step 

 then puts in a plea for the old folk-names which, however, he wrongly 

 calls trivial names, the trivial name being the Latin word added to the 

 generic name to indicate the species. The address concludes with 

 some remarks u^ion the efficient carrying out of the Wild Birds' 

 Protection Act. At the end of the volume are reports of the several 

 Pield-meetings of the Society, from the pens of Mr. Lewcock, Mr. H. J. 

 Turner, and Mr. E. Step. Then follow papers on Zygaena exuhins by 

 Messrs. Tugwell and Tutt ; a series of palters on species of Zygnena h\ 

 Mr. Tutt; one on "A morning's sport near Rockhampton, Queensland," 

 by :\[r. W. P. Warne ; another on " The Pihopalocera of the Indian 

 Territory in 1893-4," by Mr. W. Mansbridge, F.E.S. ; whilst Mr. 

 Robt. Adkin contributes some interesting " Reflections upon odd 

 Rambles on the Sussex Downs." The reports of the meetino-s are 

 much more amplified than those which appear in the magazines, and 

 contain numerous notes on specimens exhibited, together with an 

 epitome of the discussions which took place. Non-members will do 

 well to add the work to their library. — E. J. B. 



To Nature-lovers wo can recommend Nature in Acadie, ])y 

 n. K. Swann. [Swann <l' Co., 2, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C. 

 Price OS. 6d.J It is a little booklet of 74 pages dealing- with the 

 rambles of a naturalist in Nova Scotia, and contains many interestino* 

 notes relating to the scenery and to the birds of the distinct travelled 

 over. Here and there other natural objects are noted, but the birds 

 occupy by far the greater portion of the book. 



It is scarcely necessary to call the attention of our readers to The 

 London Catalogue of British Plants, by F. J. Hanbury, F.E.S. 

 We can hardly suppose that any entomologist is without it. A ninth 

 edition has just Iteen published by George Bell Sc Sons. Price Is. cloth 

 and interleaved ; Gd. in })aper cover and not interleaved. It l^rin^s 

 many of the more difficult genera cpiite up to date and is an absolute 

 necessity even to those who have the previous editions. 



