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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



represented almost every form of divergent opinion on the subject of 

 nomenclature, but nevertheless arrived at a unannnous report which 

 they recommend to the Society for presentation to the International 

 Congress. It will be evident that if these recommendations are 

 adopted by the Society, and the suggestions of the Society by the 

 International Congress, an opportunity will be afforded for putting 

 before the International Committee the different views on matters of 

 detail held by the members of your Committee, or by any other 

 entomologists." The report, which is signed by every member of the 

 Committee, is as follows : — " The present independent and irre- 

 sponsible methods of giving and adopting names having resulted in 

 much unnecessary synonymy, and even graver abuses, the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London feels that the time has arrived when some 

 check should be placed upon the practice, of more weight than that 

 which can be exercised by any single individual, society, or publica- 

 tion, and would urge upon the International Congress the establish- 

 ment of a permanent International Committee to deal with questions 

 of nomenclature as affecting Entomology ; to consider what elucida- 

 tions, extensions or emendations, if any, are required in the Inter- 

 national Code, and to confer with the International Commission of 

 Zoological Nomenclature. The Entomological Society of London 

 recommends that the International Entomological Committee, when 

 formed, shall take such action as to ensure the adequate representa- 

 tion of Entomology on the International Zoological Commission, 

 The Society also recommends that, considering the difficulty of 

 frequent International meetings, the leading Entomological Society 

 of each country be invited to appoint a Committee, whose duty it 

 shall be to deal with all questions arising in their own country, 

 subject to reference to the International Committee ; and suggests 

 that the International Committee be composed of two, or three, 

 members of each of the National Committees, elected either by the 

 Committees, or directly by the electing Societies. (Signed) Chas. O. 

 Waterhouse, Chairman ; G. T. Bethune-Baker, T. A. Chapman, Jno. 

 Hartley Durrant, Louis B. Prout, Hy. J. Turner, George Wheeler." 

 The report was adopted. — Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a series of 

 thirteen specimens of Physocephala nigra, De G., the largest British 

 species of the Conopidae, caught on Studland Heath (Dorset- 

 shire) during the last week in May, when Colonel Yerbury, Mr. 

 C. J. Wainwright, and himself took some twenty-four specimens ; 

 though widely distributed, the species was always considered a 

 great rarity, and its occurrence in such numbers had never before 

 been recorded. — Dr. T. A. Chapman, a specimen of Hydroecia 

 burroicsi, Chpn., a new species that has turned up (from Vladivo- 

 stock) since Mr. Burrows's paper on the group ; also a specimen of 

 L. {Albulina) plieretes, female, bred at Eeigate from the egg, supposed 

 to be the first (and only) bred specimen of the species.^ — Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, two uncommon Sudanese butterflies, Calopieris eiiUmene 

 and Teracolus pleione. — Mr. S. A. Neave, some specimens of the 

 Asilid genus Hyperechia, representing three, perhaps four, species, all 

 taken during his recent tour in East Africa; also, for comparison, 

 four common species of Xylocopa, bees to which the flies bore a 

 marked superficial resemblance ; also a remarkable new nymphaline 



