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of necessity, purely speculative. We do not find in this work any special tendency 

 to originate theories and suppose facts, and in this we rejoice ; for, with the firm 

 conviction that the evolution theory has a groundwork of great truths, we regret, 

 nevertheless, to find that its too zealous advocates often do it more injury than is 

 possible to be done by its most violent opponents. Putting theory on one side, 

 there is enough of facts in this volume to astonish even the advanced naturalist. 



Haggekston Entomological Society. — The Sixth Annual Exhibition of this 

 Society was held at their rooms, 10, Brownlow Street, Dalston, on the evenings of 

 Thursday and Friday, November 13th and 14.th. The insects exhibited were quite 

 up to the average. Among the rarer species were Sesia andrenifonnis, exhibited by 

 Mr. Bryant, taken at Greenhithe ; Leucania alhipuncta, shown by both Mr. Bryant 

 and Mr. Oldham ; Xylina conformis and Nonagria Irevilinea, by Mr. E. GI-. Meek ; 

 Pachetra leucophcBa and Leucania l-album, by Mr. Stevens ; Dianthmcia irregularis 

 and Zygana meliloti, by Mr. Downing ; Depressaria pallorella, taken in Headley 

 Lane, by Mr. Machin ; a bred series of HypercalUa Christiernana, togeilier with the 

 pupse cases, by Mr. J. A. Clarke ; Erastria veiiustula, by Mr. Harper ; and numerous 

 varieties of more common Lepidoptera. Mr. Skertchley exhibited two fine cases of 

 Rhopalocera from Ashanti, taken by himself. Several microscopes were placed in 

 one of the rooms, and afforded entertainment and instruction to many of the visitors. 

 — E. G. BuBEY, Secretary, Haggerston Entomological Society. 



Entomological Society of London, hth January, 1874. — Prof. Westwood, 

 I'resident, in the Chair. 



Capt. G. Cockle, of 9, Bolton Gardens, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Meldola exliibited specimens of magnified photographs of entomological 

 preparations, taken from the objects themselves with the assistance of a dark box or 

 camera obscura. 



Mr. Butler made some remarks on a paper by Mr. C. V. Riley, published in 

 the Journal of the St. Louis Academy of Science, concerning two species of Apatura 

 from N. America, noticed by Mr. Eiley as A. Hyrse, Fab., and A. Lycaon, Fab. 

 Mr. Butler thought these were in reality A. Alicia, Edwards. 



Mr. McLachlan called attention to a paper in the last part of the Annales Soc. 

 Ent. France by M. Bar and Dr. Laboidbene, on a species of BomlycidcB closely re- 

 lated to the Tiger-moths, described and figured by M. Ear as Palu.itra Lahoulbenei, 

 and of very extraordinary habits, the larva being aquatic, living in the canals of the 

 sugar plantations in Cayenne, and feeding upon an aquatic plant. The hairy larva 

 had all the form usual for the group, and breathed by means of veiy small spiracles, 

 a supply of air being apparently entangled in its hairs. The cocoons were joined 

 together in little masses floating on the surface of the water. 



Mr. McLachlan also stated that M. Ernest Olivier, of Moidins, France, grand- 

 son of the old entomologist of the same name, desired him to make known to the 

 Society that he possessed many of the types of Coleoptera described by his grand- 

 father, and would be happy to lend them to specialists working at particular groups. 



Dr. Sharp communicated a paper on the FselaphidcB and ScydmcBuidce of Japan, 

 collected by Mr. George Lewis ; there were 24 species of the former and 5 of the 

 latter. 



Mr. F. Smith read a Monograph of the genus XyJocopa, enumerating 123 species. 



