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was almost impossible to obtain a complete knowledge. He then 

 described the chief points of difference for separating the genera and 

 species, illustrating his remarks by a number of closely connected 

 species of the genus, Mr. C. G. Barrett, of London, explained and 

 discussed Mr. Merrifield's recent experiments on the effect of tempera- 

 ture on the genus Vanessa. Mr. C. E. Stott read a few remarks upon 

 Ammophila lutaria, Fab., and showed a specimen captured near Black- 

 pool in July, 1892. Mr. Harker exhibited living specimens of a 

 Curynetes feeding in Copra from Singapore, and Sesia scoliiformis from 

 the North of Scotland. Mr. Newstead, a nest of Yespa vulgaris, from 

 Malpas, Cheshire, which was built to a rafter inside an outhouse, a 

 most unusual position ; and Spharoden cylindrictun and larvae from a 

 pear tree near Chester. Mr. Herbert Stott, a remarkable variety of 

 Cehena haworthii from Bolton, 1893. Mr. Gregson, a specimen of 

 Heliothis p)eHigera captured at Wallasey in 1887. Mr. Watson, a 

 number of Panmssius apullo from various localities, also P. hardwickii 

 from N. W. Himalaya, F. jacquemontii from the same locality, P. 

 glacialis from Yokohama, P. smintheus from Colorado, P. pJuebus (Fab.) 

 = delius (Esp.) from Helvetia, showing female pouch, and Enycus 

 cressida from Queensland, also showing the female pouch. 



Annual Meeting. — The Annual Meeting was held on Monday, 

 Jan. 8th, 1894, in the classroom of the Free Pubhc Library (William 

 Brown Street), Mr. S. J. Capper, President, in the chair. The following 

 officers were appointed: — President, Mr. S. J. Capper; Vice-President, 

 Dr. J. W. EUis ; Secretary, Mr. F. N. Pierce ; Treasurer, Mr. C. E. 

 Stott ; and Librarian, Mr. H. Lock. The President, in the course of 

 a short address, thanked the members for the honour they had 

 bestowed upon him in re-electing him as President. This was the 

 seventeenth time he had acted in such a capacity. He congratulated 

 the Society on its continued success. They were now entering on 

 their seventeenth year, and it was most gratifying to state that they 

 had never been in a more prosperous condition than at present. The 

 sudden death, a few months ago, of the Kev. H. H. Higgins deprived 

 them of one of their most prominent members. They always welcomed 

 his kind face among them at their gatherings, and listened with 

 attention to his ever pertinent remarks. In the Kev. H. H. Higgins 

 they had lost a member whom it was impossible to replace, and few 

 men were such lovers of natural history as was their late friend. The 

 retiring Vice-President, Mr. W. E. Sharp, delivered the annual address, 

 the subject of which was " The New Entomology." The author, after 

 briefly sketching the origin and historical development of Entomology, 

 drew attention to the manner in which that study had been influenced 

 by the modern methods of scientific enquiry, and showed how great a 

 revolution had been effected in the estimation of nature by the general 

 acceptance of the theory of evolution, and how wider, fuller, and more 

 important the study of the order Insecta had become since it had 

 been treated as part of the great science of Biology, and appreciated 

 the fact that Entomology meant something more than merely the 

 collection and systematic arrangement of insects. In the course of the 

 evening a number of exhibits were displayed. — F. N. Pierce, Hon, Sec, 



