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Papilio ; devoted to Lepidoptera exclusively. Organ of the New York Ento- 

 mological Club. Nos. 1 — 3, January — March, 1881, pp. 1 — 42, 8vo (Communications 

 to Mr. Henry Edwards, 185, East 116th Street, New York). 



A nicely printed and generally well got-up Magazine, of which it is intended to 

 issue ten parts per annum. The publication Committee consists of Messrs. A. E.. 

 G-rote, Hy. Edwards, and T. L. Mead, whose names are well known to Lepidopterists 

 generally. According to a prospectus, support has been promised from most of the 

 prominent American Entomologists. The contents consist principally of descriptions 

 of new species ; amongst the few more general articles is one by Dr. Hagen on the 

 probably apocryphal Papilio ecclipsis, L. 



In No. 1 is a coloured plate representing a beautiful moth recently described as 

 Edward sia brillians ! (Neumoegen), an unfortunate name, the generic term having 

 been preoccupied for about forty years, the specific suggesting a scarcity of Latin 

 dictionaries in the States. 



We trust that " Papilio " will have more than the short, if merry, life the title 

 suggests ; omission of the words " devoted to Lepidoptera exclusively " in the 

 title, and acting up to the omission, will certainly tend to the realization of this wish, 

 and also elevate the Members of the Club in the estimation of other Entomologists. 



Baron de Chaudoir. — We regret to have to announce the decease of this eminent 

 Coleopterist. Next month we hope to give a notice of his life and labours. 



John Blackwall, F.L.S., died on May 11th, at the great age of 92 ; a short 

 notice will appear next month. 



Entomological Society or London : 4th May, 1881.— H. T. Staijtton, Esq., 

 E.R.S., &c, President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected, viz. : R. W. Fereday, Esq., of Christchurch, Canter- 

 bury, New Zealand (formerly a Corresponding Member), and C. Eoran, Esq., of 

 Eastbourne, Members ; and James Edwards, Esq., of Norwich, Subscriber. 



Mr. Roland Trimen exhibited S & ? of Papilio Camea, Stoll, taken in copula, the 

 $ of which he considered the mimic of a day-flying Noctua. He also exhibited speci- 

 mens of Tinea vastella, Zell. (giyantella, Staint.), the larva? of which had fed in an 

 inkstand fabricated from a hoof of the late Prince Imperial's horse, from which 

 multitudes of the insect appeared. Mr. Stainton said he considered it was still an 

 open question as to whether this moth attacked living animals. 



The Secretary read a letter received from the Colonial Office, relative to the ap- 

 pearance of Phylloxera on the vines in Yictoria ; this letter was accompanied by 

 the minutes of evidence taken before a Committee of the Victorian Legislative 

 Assembly, and by other documents. The President announced that the Council had 

 appointed a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Fitch, McLachlan, and Trimen, to 

 investigate, and report upon, the matter. 



Mr. Butler communicated " Description's of new species of Heterocerous Lepi- 

 I'jpl- ra from Japan." 



