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OF Pamphila comjxa. — Mr. Barrett : a pupa case and cocoon of Pam, 

 phila comma, which had been found by Mr. Hamm, of Reading, and 

 also some eggs which had been deposited on stems of grass by an 

 observed female. Food-plants of P. cojlaia. — A discussion took place 

 as to what was the usual food-plant of this species. The general 

 opinion was that it was a grass feeder, as most Pamphilids. Dipterous 

 PARASITE ON STARLING. — Mr. C. A. Briggs : a fly taken from a starling, 

 presumably Oniithomyia avicularia, one of the Hippuboscidac infesting 

 birds. Second brood example of Uropteryx sambucata. — Mr. H. J. 

 Turner, a living specimen of Uropteryx samhucata, taken in his 

 garden on October 8th, and no doubt a second brood individual. 



The Nonpareil Entomological, and Natural History Society. 

 — October 1st, 1896. — This meeting, being the annual general, 

 the exhibits were not very numerous, in view of the more im- 

 ]3ortant business of the election of officers. Exhibits : — Mr. Gurney : 

 Cyinatuphora ridens, one of which was a very dark form. Mr. 

 Huckett : Polyommatus hellanjua, both male and female, from Folke- 

 stone. Mr. Samson : Arye yalathea, from Andover Downs. Mr. 

 Martin : a specimen of Acherontia atropos, bred from a larva taken in 

 the Isle of Wight. The election of officers resulted as follows : — 

 President, Mr. Thos. Jackson ; Vice-President, Mr. W. Stevens ; 

 Curator, Mr. W. Harpur ; Secretary, Mr. F. West ; Treasurer, Mr. H. 

 Blake ; Reporting Secretary, Mr. F. A. Newbery ; Librarian, Mr. 

 F. A. Newbery ; Trustees, Mr. Gurney and Mr. Huckett ; Committee, 

 Messrs. Huckett, Gurney, Norman (E.) , Cooper, W. Harpur, Farmer, 

 Butt, Lusby, Moore, Samson, Norman (A.). Towards the close of 

 the evening Mr. J. A. Clark visited the society, bringing with him, for 

 exhibition, the following : — A male and female IS^yssia lapponaria, three 

 superb aberrations of Abra.vas yrussulariata, one of which was almost 

 devoid of black markings on the fore-wings and entirely so on the 

 hind-wings. Another was a very fine black-mantled form, whilst the 

 third showed the yellow mantle very well ; also a series of Oporabia 

 filiyramviaria, the specimens comprising which varied very greatly. — 

 F. A. Newbery, Rep. Sec. 



JHEYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



British Butterflies. By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 476 pp., 10 plates 

 and 45 woodcuts. [Published by George Gill and Sons, Minerva 

 House, Warwick Lane, London, E.G. Price 5/-.] — We are often 

 told that a cheap book resembling Newman's, but quite up-to-date, is 

 wanted. That is what this book professes to be. The bringing the 

 work up-to-date has resulted in the production of a work more than 

 twice as large as Newman, and published at two-thirds the price. 

 The larvfe, pupte and eggs which were unknown in the time of 

 Newman have been added. So also has the synonymy (generic and 

 specific), summaries of the general variation of each species, the 

 diagnoses of 282 varieties and aberrations (of which 110 are described 

 for the first time), and the foreign distribution of each species. There 

 are figures of every British butterfly. Sometimes three or four 

 figures of the same butterfly, to illustrate the two sexes, underside, 

 and variation, are given. The fviU-page illustrations and most of the 

 woodcuts have been drawn by the well-known entomological artist, 

 Mr. W. A. Pearce. 



