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deposition of that of Lep. and Serv. Dr. Puton, however, says that when I can 

 quote a work of Latreille, prior to 1825, in which he established the genus Pachy- 

 merus in Coleoptera he will be of my opinion. It rests on Dr. Puton's inference 

 that such a priority does not exist, that the name Pachymerus, Lep. and Serv., 

 must be revived in Hemiptera and Pachymerus, Latr., be suppressed in Coleoptera. 

 — J. W. Douglas, 8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : May 22nd, 1880. 



The G-eological Antiquity of Insects, twelve papers on Fossil Entomology : 

 by Herbert Gross, F.L.S. London : John Van Voorst, 1880, 50 pp. 8vo. 



Mr. Gross, with a view (as we believe) to rendering them known amongst 

 Greologists as well as amongst Entomologists, has reprinted and published (in a cheap 

 separate form) the series of papers by him that appeared in Vols, xv and xvi of this 

 Magazine, with such additions and corrections as appeared necessary. The combined 

 papers constitute a very useful outline sketch of what is known, and of what has 

 been done, in a special branch of palaeontology, and cannot fail to be useful, especially 

 for the copious bibliographical references. 



©bituarg. 



Professor Kirschbaum. — On the 2nd March last, Dr. Carl Ludwig Xirschbauin, 

 Professor at the G-ymnasium at Wiesbaden since 1848, died at the age of 68 years. 

 In the " Entomologische Nachrichten " of the 15th April is a long biographical notice 

 extracted from the " Niederrheinischen Zeitung," by which it appears that he was 

 for 25 years Inspector of the Natural History Museum at Wiesbaden, and that he 

 was highly esteemed in his own country and honoured in others. To Entomologists 

 in general he is known by his " Die Rhynchoten der Gregend von Wiesbaden, Die 

 Capsinen," 1855 ; " Die Atbysanus-Arten der Gregend von Wiesbaden," 1858; and 

 "Die Cicadinen der Gregend von Wiesbaden und Frankfurt a.M.," 1868. These 

 works have their merits and demerits ; the errors of identification, re-description of 

 known species as new, &c, being due in a great degree to want of research and 

 communication with contemporary workers. 



Entomological Society op London, April 7th, 1880. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., 

 F.R.S., &c, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected ordinary Members, viz. : — Messrs. C. Gr. Bignell, of 

 Stonehouse, Plymouth ; W. D. Cansdale, of Witham, Essex ; Frank Crisp, LL.B., 

 Secretary Royal Microscopical Society, and the Rev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. , of 

 Repton, Burton-on-Trent. Mons. E. Andre, of Beaune, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited a pale variety of Arctia caja, bred by an experimenter 

 as to the effects of coloured glass with reference to variation ; there was no reason 

 to believe in any correlation between the variety exhibited and the conditions under 

 which it was bred. 



Mr. Rothney communicated " Notes on the attraction the Dahlia causes to 

 insects in North India," as opposed to remarks by Mr. J. W. Slater, at the meeting 



