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costal spot of the same, (3) the normal apical colour, (4) the marginal 

 area next the apex powdered with black and crossed by black nervures; 

 the lower wings have the basal area normal, the median area black, 

 the external area normal but crossed Ijy strong black nervures. Below, 

 the forewing8 have the markings united, and the hindwings largely 

 silvered, with shining green central and sulj-al;dominal areas. 



The LoiiduH XatKialist for 1921 has recently been issued. It is 

 largely (oO pages out of 90j taken up with an extremely interesting 

 and enlightening article by Dr. E. A. Cockayne on " Structural 

 Abnormalities in Lepidoptera," an attempt to collect and group such 

 aberrations as have been recorded in British and foreign periodicals. 

 The grouping is stated to be only provisional since our knowledge of 

 causes is so slight. However the large number of headings is aa 

 undoubted advantage as it suggests to the ordinary lepidoplerist what 

 to look for, i.e., various kinds of scale defects, errors of metamorphosis. 

 There is one plate, referring to this article. The remainder is largely 

 taken up with Ornithology. The late Arthur Bacot was an active 

 member of the Society ti'om its couimencement and also of its fore- 

 runner the old City of London Society, hence there is a particularly 

 interesting obituary by one with especial knowledge of him. 



Some of the books from the library of the late H. Rowland-Brown 

 have passed to the shelves of the Entomological Society of London, 

 and among Lbem are four volumes of a collection of separata dealing 

 with the local lepidopterous fauna of France, a set which the Fellows 

 will no doubt find of great use for refence when premeditating their 

 holiday collecting tours. 



Iris for May contains fifteen plates with figures of the " Typen 

 der Gattung Aiinitin der Collection Staudinger." There are altogether 

 356 figures of these, all of the Palaearciic Fauna. 



The Ainudes th la Sm: Knt. Ijel<p'(juf pt. II. contains " New 

 Plecoptera," part 4, by Prof. F. Klapalek, and " Neotropical ants of 

 the genus ( aiiijifiiidtiis," by F. Lantschi. 



On July Hist was published parts 1 and 2 (1922) of the Trans. 

 Knt. Suriettj nf Loinltui, nearly 300 pages and eleven plates. It con- 

 tains New South African I'yrolidai', by A. J. T. Janse ; Exotic Ti)>n- 

 lidae, by Piof. P. Alexander ; S. American Micro-lepidoptera, by 

 Edw. Meyrick ; Notes on Ortboptera in the Jiritish Museum, by B. P, 

 Uvarov ; Two new British I lydniptila, Ijy Martin E. Mosely ; New 

 Neotropical (Jnrrnlinnidae, by Guy A. K. Marshall ; Intersexual form& 

 of I'lpbeius actjoii, by E. A. Cockayne ; liutiertlies on the Nile, by H. 

 Mace and G. A. K, Marshall ; Types of Carahidae in the Stettin Museum, 

 by 11. E. Andrews; Mullophaga of Spitzbeigen, by Jas. Waterston ; 

 The genus Larino/inda, by H. Eltringham ; Deceptive Resemblance in 

 Long-horned Grasshoppers, by B. P. Uvarov. What a pity it is we do 

 not get any portion of the most interesting Proceedings until, it may 

 be, more than a year after the date of the m^'etings. 



l)uring last winter Lieut. -Col. U. D. Peile exhibited a case of most 

 intei-esting butterflies taken by himself in Mesopotamia, and containing 

 >ome new and reinarkable forms from this outlying portion of thft 

 Palaearctic area, l^'iill notes and descriptions of these have now been 

 published in the Jr. liombai/ Xat. IJist. Sue., Leeember, 1921, and 

 March, 1922, with an excellent c<doured plate of the new forms. The 

 author writes, "In character the butterfly fauna of Mesopotamia, like 



