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monthly journal under the title quoted. It will be edited by Mr. 

 Guy A. K. Marshall, and will deal chiefly with insects that are known 

 to be either noxious or useful ; a summary of the current literature 

 on the subject from all parts of the world will be given. Further 

 particulars will be furnished by Messrs. Dulau & Co., Soho Square, W. 



Hewitson's Drawings of Lepidoptera. — Key to the Species. 

 — In the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-on-Tyne, is to be found 

 an octavo volume of plates painted by Hewitson ; not to be seen, 

 however, in the library with the other books of Hewitson, to 

 which museum Mr. Hewitson at death bequeathed the whole of 

 his splendid entomological library ; this volume reposes carefully 

 in the safe. It consists of 532 exquisitely painted plates by Mr. 

 Hewitson, with the name of the species opposite each in copper- 

 plate writing ; they are magnificent miniatures of the species, 

 not all, however, described by Mr. Hewitson. There 532 plates, 

 averaging five illustrations to a page, with 1,881 specimens, and 

 figuring in all about 1,537 species. They illustrate amongst others 

 the following : PapilionidiE, Pieridae, Danaidae, Heliconidse, and other 

 families. Mr. E. Leonard Gill, the Curator of the museum, first 

 showed me this work during 1911, and I was much struck with the 

 beauty of the drawings and the value as an adjunct of Hewitson's 

 other books. This book indeed appears unknown, and recently when 

 I was over I took the above particulars of it. It is bound with a 

 title-page and notes by Lieutenant-Colonel Adamson as below : — 



" This wonderful collection of drawings of Butterflies was made 

 by W. C. Hewitson. It contains 1,537 species, all beautifully 

 coloured, and most of them named by him. It was bequeathed 

 by him to the Natural History Society. April, 1899." 



The title-page is as follows: "A collection of original water-colour 

 drawings of Rhopalocera by Wm. C. Hewitson ; was bequeathed by 

 him with his Entomological library to the Natural History Society 

 of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle. August 6th, 1901. 

 C. H. E. Adamson, Lt.-Col." 



I think some valuable determinations could be elucidated by a 

 critical examination of this book.— -J. Henry Watson. 



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Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, November 

 6th, 1912.— The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— 

 Dr. Emile Frey-Gessner, La Roseraie, Geneve, Switzerland, was 

 elected to the Honorary Fellowship rendered vacant by the death of 

 Prof. Ganglbauer. — Messrs. G. C. Bodkin, Government Entomologist, 

 George Town, British Guiana; C. Talbot Bowring, Acting Com- 

 missioner of Customs, Wenchow, China ; Frederick Lionel Davis, 

 J.P., M.R.C.S., (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Behze, British Honduras ; 

 Dr. John Dewitz, Devant-les-Ponts, Metz, Lorraine ; Howard 

 Mountjoy Hallett, 13, Earl Road, Penarth, Glamorgan ; A. D. Imms, 

 D.Sc, B.A., F.L.S., Forest Zoologist to the Government of India, 

 Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, U.P., India; Nigel Jardine, 



