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insects found in Kent and Surrey ; and, for the purpose of showing, &a fully as pos- 

 sible, the distribution of Lepidoptera in these two counties, I renture to ask for help 

 from entomologists who are able to furnish local lists, more especially of districts 

 above twenty miles from London. — J. Platt Baebbtt, 34, Radnor Street, Peckham. 



Entomological Society of London: Anniversary Meeting, 2Uh January, 

 1876.— Sir S. S. Saundees, C.M.a., President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Council for the present 

 year, viz. : H. W. Bates, F.L.S., A. G-. Butler, F.L.S., G-. C. Champion, J. W. Dun- 

 ning, M.A., F.L.S., F. Grut, F.L.S., Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., &c., R. McLachlan, F.L.S., 

 R. Meldola, F.C.S., Rev. R. P. Murray, M.A., Sir S. S. Saunders, C.M.ft., H. T. 

 Stainton, F.R.S., Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., and J. J. Weir, F.L.S. Prof. 

 Westwood was elected President, and Messrs. J. J. Weir Treasurer, F. Grut and R. 

 Meldola Secretaries, and W. E. Poole Librarian. 



An Address was read by the outgoing President, which was ordered to be 

 printed ; and the meeting terminated by a vote of thanks to the retiring ofEcers, 

 Messrs. McLachlan and Jauson acknowledging the same. 



February 2nd, 1876. — The President, who was absent, appointed Sir S. S. 

 Saunders and Messrs. Bates and Stainton as Vice-Presidents for the year. Sir S. S. 

 Saunders took the Chair. 



E. Y. Western, Esq., was elected a Member. 



Messrs. McLachlan and Bates called attention to the habits of Cychrus cylin- 

 dricollis, Pini, from Mont Codeno, as detailed by M. Baudi in the " Petites Nouvelles 

 entomologiques " for February 1st. This species, which has only been found in the 

 locality named, attacks a species of Helix {U.frigida), its long head and prothorax 

 enabling it to penetrate the interior of the snail shell. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on the StaphylinidcE of the Amazon Valley, 

 chiefly worked up from the materials collected by Mr. Bates. Ke described 487 

 species, of which 467 were new ; but he estimated the probable number existing in 

 the Amazon regions at 4000 to 5000. Naturally, many new genera were included. 

 Being interrogated as to the proportion the small forms of Insecta bear to the larger 

 in a tropical country, Mr. Bates said he believed it would prove the same as tliat 

 which we find in Europe, but the larger forms were, of course, more commonly cap- 

 tured in a country where so many new and fine species were to be found. 



6bituari|. 



Br. Ludwig Redtenhacher. — It is with great regret that we record the loss of 

 this well-known Coleopterist, who died at Vienna on the 8th ulto., after a long 

 illness, in his 63rd year. The list of his works is not a long one, for he was no 

 voluminous distributor of separate copies ; nor did ho habitually describe new species 

 (though his contributions to science in that respect with regard to the voyage of the 

 Novara, and also Kotschy's collections from Syria and the western Taurus, are well 

 known) ; but his excellent descriptive treatise on the Coleoptera of his country, 

 forming a thick volume of the " Faima Austriaca," and of which he lived to see the 

 completion of a third edition, will always keep his name familiar to European Colo- 

 opterists, if only for the sake of its instructive introductory portion. Dr. Redten- 

 hacher was for many years Director of the Royal Vienna Zoological Museum. He 

 retained his interest in Entomology to the last ; and scarcely a month before his 

 decease made a careful examination of types and communicated some resulting ob- 

 servations io this Magazine. • 



