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interest, and most of the papers are valuable and lasting additions to Natural History 

 literature. Entomology is not so well represented as usual, but there are notes by 

 Mr. F. D. Wheeler and Mr. James Edwards. The former notices some of the rarer 

 Lepidoptera, including Margarodes unionalis, taken at Yarmouth Denes : the latter 

 records Oastrodes abietis, found by Lord Walsingham in spruce-cones at Merton. 



The Butterflies of Europe : illustrated and described by Henry Charles 

 Lang, M.D., F.L.S. Part i. London : L. Reeve & Co. 1881. 



A good book in the English language, giving descriptions and figures of all the 

 European Butterflies, was much wanted (we might say the same for the moths). 

 Judging from Part i, Dr. Lang's work seems likely to supply the deficiency. The 

 author proposes to briefly describe, and to figure, all the European species in about 

 20 monthly parts of 16 pages, and 4 plates each. The plates are drawn by the 

 author, and coloured by chromo-lithography, and those in Part i (with the exception 

 of one figure) strike us as excellent. The letter-press is occasionally open to im- 

 provement : for instance, why does the author father the terms " Palsearctic " and 

 " Nearctic," as applied to faunistic divisions of the globe, upon Wallace rather than 

 upon Sclater ? 



P.S. — We have since received Part ii, which is mainly occupied by the " whites," 

 and which does not in any way cause us to change the favourable opinion expressed 

 concerning Part i. Perhaps the least effective figure is that of Aporia cratczgi. In 

 the text not sufficient importance is given to the slight seasonal variations in the 

 " cabbage-whites," on which our old Entomologists contrived to fabricate several 

 species ; an obvious slip occurs at p. 29, where a distinction is apparently drawn 

 between " Tropoeolums " and " Nasturtiums," but not the natural one. 



Entomological Society of London : July 6th, 1881.— H. T. Stainton, Esq., 

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



The following were elected, viz. :— George Henry, Esq., of 38, Wellington 

 Square, Hastings, Member; and Mr. A. S. Olliffe, of 36, Mornington Road, Regent's 

 Park, Subscriber. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited a ? Morplio which he believed to be that of 

 Morplio Adonis of which the other sex was already well-known in collections. 



Miss Ormerod exhibited elm leaves, from Islay, attacked by a larva probably 

 belonging to the Coleopterous genus Orchestes ; also specimens of a saw-fly larva 

 from Rochdale, which had done much mischief in the meadows ; this Mr. Fitch 

 thought was a species of Dolerus, and he had observed a similar larva damaging 

 meadow-grass in Essex. 



Miss Ormerod also exhibited two other larva?, one from Clitheroe, probably of 

 Charceas graminis, and the other from Marlborough damaging the wheat. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton showed a series of drawings by Mr. A. T. Hollick, of 

 larva? of Ephemeridce, one of which appeared to have the power of adhering to 

 stones by its ventral segments like a limpet. 



The Secretary read the report of the Committee on the parasite of the Locust, 

 which they determined to be a species of BombyVudce. 



Sir S. S. Saunders showed the imago and larva of the Bombylius, and egg-tubes 

 of the locust ; also a young live locust that had hatched out a few days before the 

 meeting. 



