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one, and must prove exceedingly useful to all Surrey workers. The 

 reports of the meetings are still excellent, and give a great deal of 

 information, though dates of the captures exhibited and other details 

 are more often left out than inserted, in spite of the repeated requests 

 of the Secretaries to be supplied with such information. Until col- 

 lectors are more anxious to recoi'd the scientific facts relating to their 

 exhibits than to take personal credit for the element of luck in captur- 

 ing the specimens, they will possibly have the same trouble. There 

 are, as is usual in these smaller Prdceedintis, a fair number of printer's 

 errors, though these are neither so glaring, nor numerous, as those in 

 the Transaction^^ of the sister society. In the interesting presidential 

 address we find much to praise, but there is one point to criticise, viz., 

 that in which the ex-president gives a wofully incomplete picture of 

 the year's work, so far, at any rate, as relates to the additions to the 

 British fauna. Taking the " Coleoptera " for comparison, we find 

 that the President states that " five " new species have been added to 

 the British list, riz., (Edemera rircsrens, tiydrnparns bilineatiix, Tctro- 

 piitin fiisciDii, Criocepliahts poltniinis, and Aiihaiiisticus einan/inatiin. As 

 a matter of fact " nine" new species were added, as recorded by Professor 

 Beare (Knt. Hcrord, xvi., pp. 29-HO), and, assuming the other orders to 

 be as incompletely scheduled by the ex-president, it is a serious item. 

 The injury done is that, in the future, these summaries, worked out at 

 length by successive presidents, will be assumed to be accurate, and com- 

 parisons will some day be drawn between these and those of later years, and 

 all attempts at sound generalisations are frustrated by erroneous data, 

 surely more easily collected now, at the time when the literature can 

 fairly easily be overhauled, than in theyears to come when it W'ill be nmch 

 more difficult to get at. We hope that the next volume will contain a 

 complete rr^iitne of the 1908 cidditions, as well as those of 1904, 

 although one never overtakes an error once it has started. We see, too, 

 no illustrations of exhibits that one would expect from a Society tliat 

 has won such a deservedly high position in photographing natural 

 history objects. These, we suppose, will come in time. The Society 

 has much to be thankful for in its excellent membership, which, indeed, 

 it thoroughly deserves, and one suspects that, on the whole, its officers 

 and council comprise men more widely known in the entomological 

 world than many of those representing more pow'erful societies. 

 Whilst the standard of its officials remains as high as hitherto, there 

 is little doubt that the Society will maintain its position as one of the 

 premier natural history societies in the British Islands, and we con- 

 gratulate the Society heartily on an excellent year's work. The I'ro- 

 ceedini/s are published at the Society's rooms, Hibernia Chambers, 

 London Bridge, S.E. 



The Rev. G. H. Raynor is to exhibit his Abraxas if>;is.'iiflariuta in 

 the Zoological section at the British Association Meeting to be held at 

 Cambridge, on August 17th. In the exhibit will be included several 

 of the aberrations described in Ent. life., vol. xv., pp. 321-325, and 

 vol. xvi., pp. H-11. Mr. Raynor informs us that he has this year (for 

 the first time during the six years he has been working at the species) 

 at last bred some male specimens of ah. /iarofasn'ata, Huene. These, 

 six in number, appeared in two different families, and he now has egg» 

 resulting from the pairing of four of them with female flamfasciata of 

 different families. Entomologists who happen to be present at Cam- 

 bridge will find this a most interesting exhibit. 



