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interest. The Presidential Address by Mr. W. Buckley on " Collecting and 

 Breeding Acidalia contiguaria " gives in detail the author's observations on 

 this pretty and very local little Geometer extending over a number of years, 

 with valuable results, from the Mendelian point of view, of his experiments in 

 pairing and breeding the moth, and is illustrated by an excellent half-tone 

 plate. We would also call attention to the beautiful plate which accompanies 

 Mr. J. H. Watson's paper, " New Hybrids a'nd Races of Philosamia and Antherea 

 {recte Anthersea) " and exhibits the now familiar " three-colour" process at its 

 best. The list of local records of Lepidoptera is of considerable intei-est, 

 though one or two serious misprints have escaped correction. 



"A Monograph of the Genus Teracolus." By Emily Mart Bowdler 

 Sharpe. 4to pp. 56, 44 plates. London : L. Reeve & Co., Ltd., 6, Henrietta 

 Street, Covent Garden. 1914. 



The handsome qiiarto volume now under notice consists of the eleven parts, 

 published between 1898 and 1902, of Miss Bowdler Sharpe's revision of the 

 exceedingly beautiful and interesting Pierine genus Teracolus, the members of 

 which form so conspicuous and beautiful a feature of the butterfly fauna of 

 Africa and South-Western Asia. These are now issued with title-page and index, 

 and although professedly incomplete — some of the more remarkable members of 

 the genus, such as the large and fine T. protomedia, not being dealt with — and 

 lacking the very considerable accessions to our knowledge of the life-history and 

 seasonal forms of numerous species, which since the appearance of the final part 

 have resulted from the researches of many able workers in Tropical Africa and 

 elsewhere, the book is of great value to all serious students of butterflies. The 

 descriptions of the 51 species included in the volume are carefully drawn up, 

 with full synonymy and particulars of the seasonal and geographical variation 

 as were known at the time of writing, as well as long lists of localities and such 

 bionomic details as were then available. A general introduction to the volume 

 might with advantage have been added. The chief feature of the work is the 

 extensive series of plates, executed in chromo-lithography, and including no 

 fewer than 450 figures. The butterflies lend themselves excellently to this 

 method of illustration, and though in a few of the figures a certain lack of 

 finish is perceptible, and those of the magnificent "purple-tipped" species 

 scarcely do justice to the opalescent beauty of the insects — siich a feat of colour- 

 work is perhaps hardly possible —a high standard of excellence is on the whole 

 maintained. We would add that the work is issued at a price considerably less 

 than the original cost of the parts. 



^ociities. 



Lanca.shire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting held at 

 the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, Monday, October 19th, 1914. — 

 Mr. R. Wilding, President, in the Chair. 



