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known in America, some parts of Europe, and Australia. The contents 

 of all these publications intimate, that it is now well recognised, that 

 only by a thorough detailed knowledge of the life-history of the posts 

 is it at all j)ossible to work out adequate methods of dealing with and 

 controlling their depredations with a minimum of loss of the crops 

 concerned. 



In the Bulletin of the State TlniverHitij of loira is an account of 

 " Some Recent Collections of Fossil Coleoptera from the Miocene 

 Shales of Florissant," by H. F. Wickham. The district of Florissant 

 is quite a historic locality for the discovery of so many examples of 

 the invertebrates of an earlier age. Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, who 

 long ago was an active member in the South London Entomological 

 and Natural History Society, has during the past five or six years 

 organised parties of exploration for the express purpose of getting fresh 

 material. These efforts have been so far successful that this 

 preliminary report has been written describing and figuring a number 

 of new forms, and an intimation is given that the United States 

 Museum have in hand a detailed and comprehensive report upon the 

 whole of the coleopterous material from the Florissant area in their 

 collections. 



In the last part of the Verhanillun(jen der k.k. zoo. hot. Getiell. in 

 Wieu, in the report of the meeting on January 12th, Dr. Rebel 

 describes a new species of Coleop/iora, 0. meridionella. The new 

 species comes nearer C. tro(flo(h/tella, and was bred from cases found in 

 Dalmatia, 1893, and near Riva in 1911. Subsequently Dr. Rebel has 

 detected several in the " Mann " collection in the Hofmuseum under 

 the name therinella, Tengstr. 



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The Entomological Society of London. — May l.sf, 1912. — The 

 Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., Cadney Vicarage, 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Aberkations 

 in Aglais urticae, var. ichnusa. — Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited three 

 examples of Aylah urticae, var. ichnni^a, showing the absence of scales 

 in the centre of the wings, where the central spots are present in the 

 type. Variation in Euchloe damone.^ — Mr. Jones also exhibited 

 examples of Euchloe dawone, from Asia Minor and Sicily, showing 

 difference in the depth of colour of the transverse black streak on 

 forewings, and in the tone of colour of undersides. A very scarce 

 Egyptian Pierid. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited a series of twelve 

 specimens (five males and seven females) of the rare white butterfly, 

 Pinacopteri/x do.vo. Scarce Coleophorids. — Mr. Alfred Sich exhibited 

 two specimens, with their cases, of Coleophora tritjeuiinella, Fuchs, and 

 one specimen of C. badiipeuneUa, Dup., with its case for comparison. 

 Brazilian Ithomiines. — Mr. W. J. K&je exhibited three small groups 

 of Ithomiine butterflies that had been taken by himself in S. Brazil. 

 New Mimacr.eas. — -Mr. Hamilton H. Druce exhibited J and $ of the 

 new Miuiacraea eltriufihanii, captured by Mr. S. A. Neave in the 

 Bugoma Forest, Unyoro, Uganda, and another new Miwacraea which 

 he proposed to name costle>/i, after its discoverer Mr. Costley White at 

 Mlanji, Nyassaland, which appeared to be allied to M. marshalU, 

 Trimen, a specimen of which was also shown for comparison, Mr. S. 



