no I May. 



African Ea.temirt. He said that such labels, having been once set up in type, could 

 be reproduced in electrotype very cheaply and efficiently. Black ink was considered 

 better than red on account of its greater permanence. Mr. 7errall said he was of 

 opinion that no species should ordinarily be described from a single type, but from 

 many specimens, and he wished every so-called " type " could be destroyed as soon 

 as a species had been described from it. Mr. Blandford explained the system of 

 labelling types in the Brussels Museum. Dr. Sharp, Prof. Meldola, Mr. McLaehlan, 

 and Prof. Poulton continued the discussion. Mr. Blandford exhibited a series of 

 lantern slides showing the uses to which pliotography could be put in entomological 

 illustration. Prof. Meldola expressed surprise that photography had hitherto been 

 so little employed in the illustration of works of Entomology. Prof. Poulton read 

 a paper, entitled " On the Courtship of certain European AcridiidcB." The Author 

 said that these observations upon the courtship of Swiss AcridiidcB were made in 

 exceedingly favourable weather at the end of August and beginning of September 

 last year. He was much indebted to Mr. F. Jenkinson, of Cambridge, and Mr. V. 

 F. Dickens for many independent observations and valuable confirmation. Prof. 

 Poulton stated that Dr. Sharp had been kind enough to name the species referred 

 to in the paper. Prof. Meldola expressed great interest in the paper, and said that 

 the observation of the habits of insects in the field seemed to be much neglected by 

 many Entomologists. Dr. Sharp remarked that there was a greater variety in the 

 organs capable of producing sound in the Orthoptera than was generally supposed. 

 Mr. G. F. Hampson read a paper, entitled, " On the Classification of Three 

 Subfamilies of Moths of the Family Pi/ralidcB : the Epipaschiinee, Endotrichince, 

 and PyralincB." — H. Goss, Ron. Secretary. 



AN ANNOTATED EEVISION OF THE BRITISH CKHYSIBIBM. 

 BY THE EEV. F. D. MOBICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



I have for some time felt convinced that the accepted list of 

 British Chrysids stood in need of revision. Shuckard's description 

 of our native genera and species, published so far back as 1837, was 

 but little improved upon by F. Smith in his " Monograph " (Ent. Ann., 

 1862), nor can it be said that much additional light has been thrown 

 on the subject by Marshall's "Catalogue" (1872). Of late years 

 immense progress has been made in the study of continental and 

 exotic Chrysids. Mocsary's Encyclopaedic " Monographia Chrysidi- 

 darum orbis terrarum universi " appeared in 1889 ; and even this 

 great work is being in part superseded by the Vicomte Eobert du 

 Buysson's magnificent volume now approaching completion in Andre's 

 "Species." But, in the meantime, our knowledge of the British 

 Chrysids seems to have remained, practically, where Smith left it. 

 His identifications have been accepted, with little or no question, both 

 here and abroad. Not a single fresh insect has, I believe, been added 

 to our list; nor has any one, to my knowledge, attempted to deal with 



