248 THE entomologist's record. 



URRENT NOTES. 



A meeting of the Entomological Club was held at Oxford, on July 

 2nd, Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., etc., being the host. Dinner 

 was served at Jesus College, and a very pleasant evening was spent. 

 The following were the members and guests present : — The Junior 

 Proctor; Messrs. H. R. Brown, Chitty, Collin, Dixey, Donisthorpe, 

 Druce, Geldart, Jacoby, Jones, Lucas, Meldola, Trimen, Verrall and 

 Commander Walker. 



At the British Association meeting at Cambridge, in August, 1904, 

 very few entomologists were noticed, among them, however, being 

 Professor Poulton, Professor Beare, Dr. Sharp, Messrs. Collin, H. St. 

 J. Donisthorpe, E. C. Lamb, C. Morley, G. H. Verrall, etc. Several 

 very pleasant excursions were made during the stay, and Mr. Verrall, 

 who had a houseparty, entertained 150 members of the Association to 

 luncheon on the occasion of the visit to Wicken Fen. In the Hand- 

 hook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire, issued for the benefit of 

 the members of the Association, a most useful and well got up little 

 volume, the articles on entomology are as follows : — Orthoptera, by 

 M. Burr ; Neuroptera, K. J. Morton ; Hemiptera, W. Farren ; Cole- 

 optera, H. St. J. Donisthorpe ; Lepidoptera, W. Farren ; Diptera, J. 

 Collin ; Hymenoptera, C. Morley. 



The last monthly meeting of the Entomological Club was held at 

 27, Hereford Square, S.W., on Thursday, July 14th, at half-past six 

 o'clock, when Mr. Arthur J. Chitty was the host. A large number of 

 members and friends assembled, and were received by Mr. and Mrs. 

 Chitty, an adjournment being made to the gardens of the Square 

 before supper, which was served at 8.30 p.m. Among others present 

 were Professor E. B. Poulton, Dr. F. Dixey, Dr. Joy, Colonel 

 Swinhoe, Commander J. J. Walker, Messrs. R. Adkin, Donisthorpe, 

 Elliot, T. W. Hall, Jacoby, R. W. Lloyd, Lucas, Morley, Porritt, 

 W. E. Sharp, R. South, J. W. Tutt, Verrall, C. 0. and E. 

 Waterhouse, &c. An excellent supper was served, and a collection 

 of the menu cards recently used will make a delightful souvenir 

 of these friendly, and in every way desirable, social meetings. We 

 hope, however, that those members who do not feel equal to these more 

 elaborate functions, will have no compunction in still keeping np the 

 simplicity of the early ones, and remember that we value friends 

 because they are friends, and because we like them, and for no other 

 reason whatever. 



Herr M. Gillmer publishes {Arch. Ver. Fr. Nat. Meckienb., Iviii., 

 pp. 64-99) the second instalment of an " Uebersicht der von Herrn 

 E.Busack bei Schwerin und Waren gefangenen Grossschmetterlinge," 

 the present paper dealing with the Sphini/ides. It is an excellent piece 

 of work, including more than the title implies, for a survey is given 

 of the previous literature of this superfamily in Mecklenburg, Avith 

 various notes on the life-histories, etc. The working-out of the variation 

 of Snierinthus (Aniorpha) populi is particularly " eingehend," being on 

 the lines followed in Tutt's British Noctiiae and British Lepidoptera 

 with respect to the more variable species, even to the admission of 

 some of the "double-barrelled" names for sub-aberrations, to which 

 Rothschild and Jordan seem to take exception, such as " ab. (//v'scrt- 

 diluta," " Qjh. jiallida-fasciata,'' etc. If the rest of the Macrolepidoptera 

 are treated in the same exhaustive style, the work will form, when 

 completed, one of the best faunistic lists — probably, indeed, the best — 

 yet published in the German magazines. 



