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to the NymphaHdcB, and the specimen was remarkable as being in 

 more perfect condition than any fossil butterfly from the European 

 Tertiaries. He also stated that he had found a bed near the White 

 Kiver on the borders of Utah, in which insects were even more abun- 

 dant than in the Florissant beds. Dr. Sharp, Mr, Kirby, Mr. H. Goss, 

 and the President took part in the discussion which ensued. Mr. Goss 

 exhibited hybernating larvae of Spilothyrus alcea;, which had been sent 

 to him by Mr. F. Bromilow from St. Maurice, Nice. Mr. W. F. H. 

 Blandford read a paper entitled " The Khynchophorous Coleoptera of 

 Japan. Part III. Scolytidas." The President, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Cham- 

 pion, Mr. McLachlan, and Mr. J. J. Walker took part in the discussion 

 which ensued concerning the distribution of the group and the ad- 

 mixture of Palaearctic and Oriental forms in Japan. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker read a paper entitled "Notes on some Lepidoptera 

 received from the neighbourhood of Alexandria," and exhibited the 

 specimens. Mr. McLachlan suggested that the scarcity of insects 

 in Lower Egypt was possibly to be accounted for by the fact that much 

 of the country was under water for a portion of the year ; and Dr. Sharp 

 said that another cause of the scarcity was the cultivation of every 

 available piece of laud for centuries past. The President and Mr. J. 

 J. Walker continued the discussion. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse read a 

 paper entitled " Further observations on the Tea-Bugs (Helopeltis) of 

 India." Dr. F. A. Dixey communicated a paper entitled " On the 

 Phylogeny of the Pieriim, as illustrated by their Wing-markings and 

 Geographical Distribution." — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Sees. 

 January llth, 1894. — The 61st Annual Meeting. — Mr. Frederic 

 Mernfield, Vice-President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's 

 accounts, showing a balance in the Society's favour, having been read 

 by Mr. J. Jenner Weir, one of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, 

 read the Eeport of the Council. It was then announced that the 

 following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 

 1894 :— President, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. 

 Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S. , 

 and the Eev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the Council, Mr. Walter 

 F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S., Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A., Mr. 

 Frederic Merrifield, Prof. Edward B. Poultou, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. George H. Verrall, Mr. James J. 

 Walker, E.N. , F.L.S., and the Eight Hon. Lord Walsingham, LL.D., 

 F.E. S. Mr. Merrifield then read the President's Address, in which, after 

 alluding to the principal events of the past year, and the prosperous 

 condition of the Society, he referred to the additions which had been 

 made in 1893 to the literature of Entomology, calling attention 

 to the 'Butterflies of China and Japan,' by Mr. J. H. Leech; the 

 ' Moths of India,' by Mr. G. F. Hampson ; the ' Butterflies of 

 North America,' by Mr. W. H. Edwards ; ' Lepidoptera Indica,' 

 by Dr. F. Moore ; and the continuation of the ' Biologia Centrah- 

 Americana,' by Messrs. F. D. Godman, F.E.S., and Osbert Salvin, 

 F.E.S. He also commented on the recent publications of the Grand 

 Duke Nicholas Mikhailovitch, Mons. Charles Oberthiir, and Dr. 

 Staudinger, on the Continent. The President concluded by referring 



