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B. H. Crabtree read a paper : — " Some Butterflies of the Rhone 

 Valley." During July, 1912, he visited Chamonix, Zermatt, and 

 Berisal, and took between fifty and sixty species, specimens of most 

 of which were exhibited. The species of the genera Lyccena, Golias, 

 Parnassius, Erchia, &c., were particularly noteworthy. — Mr. J. H. 

 Watson exhibited Ornithoptera priamus (male and female) and 

 0. paradisea, and an example of 0. d'urvilleana. He also showed 

 Papilio laglaizei and a moth which mimics it in a most remarkable 

 manner — Alcides agatliyrsus. — -Mr. W. Mansbridge showed Tortrix 

 costana with var. latiorana, from the Liverpool district, and var. nov. 

 liverana, taken by himself at Liverpool, and by Mr. A. E. Wright at 

 Burnley. He showed also Amphidasys hetularia, from Simonswood, 

 Lancashire, an intermediate form between the type and var. double- 

 day aria. — Mr. R. Tait, Jr., recorded the capture, by Mr. W. A. 

 Tyerman, of Dasypolia templi, in Oldham Road, Manchester, on 

 February 5th, 1912.- A. W. Boyd, M.A., Hoii. Secretary. 



RECENT LITERATURE, 



Forty-second Annual Beport of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 1911. (Published by Ontario Department of Agriculture, 1912.) 

 This report, consisting of one hundred and fourteen pages with a 

 number of illustrations, relates chiefly to useful and injurious 

 insects. One or two short papers are of a more general nature, 

 including one on " Insect Migration at Aweme, Manitoba." A dis- 

 cussion on the " Catalogue of Canadian Insects," to be at once 

 undertaken, will be found of interest. WIT 



Tlie Early Stages of our Dragonflies.'''- By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.B.S. 



We have now received a print of the very interesting address 

 which Mr. Lucas presented to the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomo- 

 logical Society at their last Annual Meeting. A brief summary of 

 the address was embodied in the account of that meeting which 

 appeared in the 'Entomologist ' for February last, but we find that 

 Mr. Lucas was there wrongly reported to have drawn " particular 

 attention to the habit Ischnura elegans possesses of descending 

 beneath the surface of the water" for the purpose of oviposition. 

 The species really referred to was, of course, Enallagma cyathigerum, 

 and on one or two occasions we have ourselves witnessed the same 

 insect engage.d in subaqueous oviposition. 



Mr. Lucas traces in some detail the progress of our knowledge of 

 dragonfly nymphs, but he seems to regard Moufet's ' Insectorum 

 Theatrum ' (1634) as containing the earliest reference to them. 

 According to some other bibliographies which we have seen, how- 

 ever, the literature of the subject begins with the writings of 

 Rondelet (1555) and Aldrovand (1618). At the present time, Mr. 

 Lucas says, "leaving out Sympetrum vulgatiLtn, S. fonscolomhii, and 



■''- Tliirty-fifth Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Entomological Society. Session 1911. 



