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partly by Speiser, occupy 206 pages, or about foui- times as much 

 space as the Lepidoptera, thus reversing the usual order of things. 

 The Siphonaptera, by the Hon. Charles Rothschild, are interesting ; 

 there were 250 specimens, representing six species of which three were 

 new, one requiring a new genus. The Anoplura are treated by 

 Enderlein, and the Neuroptera, Pseudo-neuroptera and Hemiptera by 

 various authors ; of the latter order, the Goridae, ('ori.iidae and 

 Notonectidae were worked out by the late G. W. Kirkaldy, who enjoyed 

 an unrivalled knowledge of these groups, his etirly favourites. 



The Orthoptera are discussed by Sjostedt himself, with the 

 exception of the Blattodea by Shelford and the earwigs by Burr. 



The Corrodentia, Collembola and Tlujmnura are also well treated. 

 Leaving the insects we find the Mijiiapnda, Arachnoideo, lkca}>()da, 

 Isopoda and Vermes treated in detail by various specialists. 



It is a great work and a splendid monument to the -energy of 

 Professor Sjostedt and to the public spirit and generosity of his 

 country and countrymen, who are always ready and willing to come 

 forward in the support of Science. 



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City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Noveviber 1th, 1911. — Orthosia lota from France. — Dr. T. A. Chapman 

 exhibited three specimens bred from larvae taken at Amelie-les-Bains, 

 South France, and fed on Coriana iiiijrti folia ; the three imagines (all 

 that emerged) were of three different forms, leaden, dark red, and 

 fulvous, pointing to the existence of much more variation than is 

 found in the British race. Melanic Acidalia virgularia. — Mr. G. H. 

 Heath, a specimen taken atBrockley, September, 1911, of aunicolorous 

 dark grey with white cilia. Cerastis vaccinii ab. suffusa.- — Mr. B. S. 

 Williams, two examples taken at Finchley, September, 1911. Ematurga 

 atomaria 5 with J coloration. — Mr. H. B. Williams exhibited a $ 

 with tawny ground colour of J , taken at Oxshott, July, 1911. — 

 November 2lst, 1911. — Lepidoptera from Mucking. — Rev. C. R. N. 

 Burrows exhibited a number of lepidoptera taken in his garden at 

 sugar during September, including one Mellinia ocellaris, Calamia 

 lutosa, Lencania co)iima (presumably a second brood), a melanic Thera 

 variata and Melanippe fluctiiata var. costorata. Pyrameis cardui and 

 High Temperature. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a long series bred ab ovo 

 from a Folkestone 2 taken on Septemoer 2nd ; the larvje were fed up 

 in a temperature of about 80", and all the imagines had emerged by 

 October 16th. In a few specimens the inner large white apical blotch 

 was almost entirely obscured by black scaling, while many others 

 showed the same peculiarity in a less accentuated degree. Vanessa io 

 AB. cYANosTicTA. — Mr. H. B. WiUiauis, a series including an example 

 of this aberration bred from larvje taken at Chalfont in July. 

 Variation in Chesias spartiata. — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, a series from the 

 Wanstead district, including pale gre}^ brownish, reddish-fawn, and 

 melanic forms. ^Egeria myop.eformis. — Mr. Willsdon also exhibited 

 a series of this clearwing, and stated that it had been secured by 

 searching the grass at the foot of apple trees early in the morning. 

 Celastrina argiolus, third brood. — Rev. C. R. N. Burrows reported 

 the appearance of a third brood at Mucking late in September. 



