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Sacium pusillum, GylL, at Birmingham. — On Christmas day last, one of my 

 Bons found a small beetle walking on the outside of an orange in my house at 

 Smallheath, Birmingham. Being in some uncertainty as to the species, I sent it to 

 the Rer. A. Matthews, who pronounced it to be Sacium pttsilluyn. — W. G. Blatch, 

 214, Green Lane, Smallheath, Birmingham : February 10th, 1887- 



Bythinus glabratus, Mye, at Sandoiun, Isle of Wight. — On April 12th, 1884, I 

 captured a Bythinus, under a stone, on the side of a cliff at Sandown, Isle of Wight : 

 it was found in company with ants, and with it I took Trichonyx MaerJcelii : I did 

 not pay much attention to it at the time, but, having lately had occasion to work 

 at the Pselaphidce, I found that it was a specimen of Bythinus glabratus ; the 

 species is easily recognised by its rufo-testaceous colour, glabrous elytra, and the very 

 long first joint of the antennse ; it was originally taken by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse's 

 sons ill August, 1865, in a mossy hollow on the chalk, on Scaford Downs, in 

 company with Trichonyx Maerlcelii, and a small yellow Myrmica. The same locality 

 at Sandown has yielded me such good species as Atemeles paradoxus, Cathormiocerus 

 tocius, Otiorhynchus ligustici, &o. — W. W. Fowleb, Lincoln ; February 5th, 1887. 



The Btjtteeflies of Nobth America : by W. H. Edwards. Thied Series, 

 Part i. Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co. London : Triibner & Co. 

 1887. 



True to his promise at the conclusion of the second series of this magnificent 

 work, the author has commenced a third series, based on the original lines, which 

 may probably contain sixty plates : and a notable feature is that several plates will 

 be devoted to figures of the eggs of Butterflies, as indicating generic affinity and 

 divergence. The author states that he has never found any difficulty as to obtaining 

 eggs of Butterflies. This first part of the third series concerns varieties (or forms) 

 of Colias Furydice, Argynnis Nitocris (a truly magnificent species), and A. Lais. 

 The text is as exhaustive, and the plates are as beautiful, as heretofore. Colias 

 Furydice, like many others of the genus, is liable to dimorphism, which in this case 

 appears to be seasonal. Females of the autumnal brood were described by Mr. Henry 

 Edwards under the name amorphce, which refers to the food-plant fAmorpha 

 calif ornicaj . 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 January 27th, 1887 : R. South, Esq., F.E.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Barclay and 0. Roberts were elected members. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited Nilasera Pirama, Moore, and N. Amantes, Hewt. 

 Also a piece of amber containing five insects. Mr. Billups, living specimens of 

 Mhagium bifasciatum, Fab., from Braemar, and contributed notes. Mr. Weir com- 

 municated a paper, " Notes on the comparative rarity of Lepidoptera — Bhopalocera, 

 once common in the neiglibourhood of Lewes." He said that Aporia cratcegi was 

 very abundant at Keymer in the year 1838, the following year he saw but one, and 

 although he visited the locality for 15 years afterwards, he never saw the species there 



