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Mr. S. J. Bell : two cocoons of Saturma pavonia, in which the usual 

 outlet was wanting ; they were almost spherical in shape, and smaller 

 in size than normal specimens. Mr. Bate : Orthosia xuspecta and 

 Xylophasia ^coJopachia from Dulwich Woods. 



Aug. 20th, 1895.— Principal exhibits :— Mr. Clark: four Gledeohia 

 angnstalis, from the New Forest, including a female ; also, from the 

 same locality, three female Ejnnephele ianira, two of which were 

 partially xanthic, and the third had a light tawny patch on the disc 

 of each hind wing. Mr. Nicholson : a box of insects taken last July, 

 at Pwllheli, N. Wales, which included a specimen of Vanessa urtirae, 

 with the yellow costal blotches strongly tinged with white ; and a 

 female Bowbyx qtiercus. which approached var. vaUunae in colouring. 

 Dr. Sequeira: n fine Bri/ophila perJa, suffused with broion ; a series 

 of Hi/psijteti's sordidata, mostly very dark ; and the Yorkshire form of 

 Gortyna ochracca. 



Sept. 3rd, 1895.— Principal exhibits : — Capt. Thompson : bred 

 Nonagria clijnu from Hornsea, Yorks ; several of the specimens being 

 very strongly suffused with blackish scales. Mr. J. A. Clark : a variety 

 of Vanessa iirticae, in which the large square black blotch on the inner 

 margin of the fore-wings was entirely wanting, but the twin spots were 

 abnormally large and almost coalesced ; also a series of Ejihesfia 

 kuhnielhi, bred from Dr. Allinson's Food for Infants, and living larva? 

 andpupfe for distribution. Mr. Tutt : larva-cases and newly-hatched 

 larvse of Thj/ridoptenjx epliemeyaeformis, or a species allied thereto, an 

 insect from South America, apparently closely allied to the Psychids. 

 Mr. Bayne : Hetcrogenea limacodes from the New Forest ; and a very 

 sparsely dotted SjrUosouia uienthastri from Tottenham. Mr. Tutt also 

 exhibited a storebox full of Erehia aethiojis, which he had recently 

 taken in the Tyrol. 



;g\EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Professor Grote has done excellent service in summarising the 

 general results arrived at by those entomologists who have recently 

 given so much attention to the natural classification of the Lepidoptera. 

 In his Systema Lepidopierornm Hildesiae (published Aug., 1895), he 

 summarises the results obtained, dividing the Order Lepidoptera into 

 Suborders, Frenatae and Jugatae. The former falls into the Super- 

 families — Papilionides, Spliingides, Bouihycides, Agrotides. and 

 Tineides ; the latter contains the Hepialides and ^licroptevygides. The 

 superfamily Agrotides contains a number of what were once considered 

 Bomhycid families, and the Geometiidae are given only family rank 

 in this superfamily. On the whole the system is logical, and the 

 paper is one that should be obtained at once by all our leading lepidop- 

 terists. One of the features of the entomology of 1895 will un- 

 doubtedly be the approach of the entomologists of the world to a 

 natural working basis for the classification of the Lepidoptera. It is 

 remarkable how closely the lines Professor Grote has adopted agree 

 with those which Ave had ourselves previously formulated in a small book 

 on British Moths, that we have written recently for Messrs. Routledge 

 and Sons. The only important point of difference, apparently, is in our 

 treatment of the Plati/pterygides, and the formation of a larger number 

 of superfamilies. The four large quarto sheets are written in Latin, a 

 vast improvement on German. Its cost is not stated, but is, we 

 presume, trivial. We may add that the paper is so far up-to-date that 



