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physiology and anatomy. It is diTided into thirteen chapters with introduction, and 

 each chapter mostly treats on a separate subject. All the details are given in the 

 clearest possible manner, and the illustrations in the text are excellent, and do credit 

 to Mr. Hammond's well known skill as a delineator of microscopic preparations. 

 Prof. Miall has taken De Q-eer, Lyonnet and Reaumur as his models, and gives in- 

 teresting sketches of the lives of these great masters. Much of the test that is not 

 original is also derived from their works, and especially from Reaumur. If there be 

 ;i fault it is, tliat in our opinion, some more modern authors have scarcely received 

 commensurate notice. 



Abstract of rnocEEDiNGs of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for the year 189t, together with the President's 

 Address. 8vo, pp. 136. Published at the Society's Rooms (Ilibernia Chambers, 

 London Bridge). 1895. 



This bulky pamphlet brings out in detail the large amount of work done in one 

 year by the old established and flourishing local Society that issues it. Most of it 

 naturally concerns matters connected with our own islands, but the Alps of Europe, 

 Queensland, and even the United States have been made to furnish part of the 

 materials. The President in his Address says, with regard to the " Act to amend 

 the Wild Birds' Protection Act, 1880 :" — "What is sadly needed is a law to make 

 penal the destruction of those distinguished visitors in feathers who cannot alight 

 in our fields or woods, or even fly over them, without falling victims to some 

 miserable gunner;" but we fail to find any allusion to the concerted destruction of 

 our local Butterflies that is going on from year to year, and which (in at least one 

 instance) will result in speedy extinction. This is just the sort of subject that 

 should be taken up by a Society such as the " South London." 



^oi|i(jties. 



This South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 July Wth, 1895.— T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Fremlin exhibited a long and variable bred series of Phorodesma smarag- 

 daria, Fb., all of which were set with the aid of a blowpipe ; also a bi'ed series of 

 Geometra papiUonaria, L. Mr. Oldham, a Sirex gfgas, L., from Wisbech, and a 

 number of Xejo!t/o/>/ero taken during the Society's field meeting at Oxshott, June 

 29th, including Eurymene dolahraria, L., Macaria lituraia, Clerek, and Hadena 

 pisi, L. Mr. Adkin, a yellow variety of Ematurga atomaria, L. Mr. T. W. Hall, 

 a pupa of Se!iia sphegiformix, Fb., and a bred series of Eupilhecia valerianata, Hb. 

 Mr. Edwards, a specimen of Papilio Sesostris, var. Xe.ttos, from South America. 



July 2oih, 1895.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Hall oxhibiti>d a long and variable bred series of Bianthaecia carpophaga, 

 Bork., the larva? having been found on Lychnis vespertina ; one specimen had all 

 the usual markings nearly obliterated, and gradations led to the opposite extreme of 

 a specimen with the markings much extended and intensified. Mr. Robson, a var. 

 of Smerinthus tilicB, L., without the usual dark band across the fore-wing, and an 

 exceedingly pretty suffused form of Zonosoma pendularia, Clerek. Mr. Dennis, e 



