240 THE entomologist's record. 



dislodo-ed with a stick ; ('nijitin-epJudus In/pochoeridis, one of several 

 taken from flowers of Hicrariuiii, Box Hill, 26th May, 1895 ; 

 Timairha coriaria, from Box Hill, 16th April, 1895. Mr. Jennings 

 remarked that the mild weather of last week had induced three 

 species of Diptera to emerge from hybernation, riz. : Mu.sca (hDiicHica, 

 ('allipluira cri/thrDccjilKila and Pnllciiia rudis. A letter received 

 yesterday from a friend at Colchester announced that small Diptera 

 were on the wing there on Sunday the 19th, and that one yanrssa 

 nrticai' had been seen. Mr. R. W. Bobbins recorded the recent 

 emergence of a specimen of Spilosoma urtirac. Mr. Quail gave an 

 admirable summary of the entomology of 1895. Roughly speaking, 

 the season had been good in the N. and N.W., but below the average 

 in the E. and S. The unusual captures included two or three 

 L'hoerucampa reli'vio, imagines of Sphin.v convulvuli from various parts, 

 and several larvse from Cornwall, Catorala fra.rini from Hastings, 

 Folkestone and Farnboro', several Plmia inoneta, and a specimen of 

 KnuDtiKix autiiiiiuaria from Hythe. Mr. Quail also summarised the 

 entomological literature of 1895, and referred to the deaths of 

 Profs. Huxley and Riley, Mr. W. H. Tugwell and Major J. N. Still. 

 Mr. Quail exhibited a cabinet drawer containing examples 

 of British Rhopalocera, arranged according to Dr. Chapman's scheme, 

 put forward in his paper on the " Phylogenesis of the Rhopalocera." 

 Mr. Wattson summarised the occurrences of the Odonata in 1895. 

 In his experience they had been unusually scarce, and he thought 

 this might be due to the unusual abundance of the Coleoptera. 

 Dragonflies would have a fair chance if hatched at the same time as 

 beetles, but if the latter had a start they would probably take the lead 

 throughout. Mr. Lucas, of Kingston-on-Thames, had captured a 

 specimen of .Ksclnia juncca paired with yK. ci/cnwa, and the same 

 entomologist had also recorded the capture of Knallaijina ri/atliincruni 

 by Sundew / ]>nis,'ra n'tuudifolid j, whilst carrying a specimen of the 

 latter in his hand. The greatest event of the year was Mr. Nunney's 

 paper in the October number of Scii'iur (iossip. 



J^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The Transactions of the City of London EntomolO(.;ical 

 Society for 1895 contain an original article, " On the modern 

 principles on which the classification of the Lepidoptera is based," by 

 J. W. Tutt, in which the larval, pupal and imaginal characters used 

 by Dyar, Chapman, Comstock, Sec, are explained. The siibject of 

 neuration is rather fully dealt with, and the evolution of the neura- 

 tion of the I'icridac from that of the I'apUionidae is illustrated by 

 diagrams of the neuration of Papilia, Ajmria, Picris, Knrhhie and 

 Lcucopliasia, the development of the highly specialised neuration of 

 Li'iicopluisia being traced by successive steps from the more generalised 

 neuration of PapiUu. Copies can be obtained from Mr. C. 

 Nicholson, 202, Evering Road, London, N.E, 



Errata. — p. 146, line 17 — for " auriroma " read " cuplmrhiae,'' 

 and for " PlutMra " read " Airtumi/xcis " ; p. 146, lines 40-42 — delete 



" though the moth congeneric," and substitute " The 



name Ijisnlcia falls before Craniophura, Snellen (1872), with the same 

 type." — A.R.G. 



