192 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



from Dicranura vinula. Mr. Carringtoii contributed notes on collecting at 

 Horsley, Surrey. Mr. White read a paper, "Observation y6'rs(i.s Collecting." 



June I'Sth, 1889. — John T. Carrington, F.L.S., VicH-President, in the 

 chair. Mr. Moore exhibited species of Lepidoptera from Antigua. Mr. 

 Wellman, Macroglossa fuciformis and Neineobiiis lacina; also living larviB 

 of Halia vauaria, showing variation. Mr. Helps, Selenia tetralunaria. 

 Mr. Robson, specimens of Sesia foriaicceformls with yellow bands. Mr. 

 South e.xhibited specimens of Cidarla traiicata and C. iniinanata from 

 various localities, and referred to the first named as having been honoured 

 with no less than eight names, and having been placed in half as many 

 genera, not including PhaliBna and Geometra, which were rather tribes or 

 divisions than genera. Seeing how variable the species was, the multiplicity 

 of trivial names was hardly matter for surprise ; few, if any, of the entomo- 

 logists of the present day were inclined to claim specific rank for the forms 

 now so generally admitted to be aberrations of C. truncata. As regards 

 C inDiianata, this insect was not so deeply involved in the synonymic web 

 as that previously considered. Mr. South then proceeded to refer to the 

 various forms and varieties, and illustrated his remarks by his exhibit. 

 Mr. Tugvvell made some observations on collecting during the present 

 season. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Excursion, June 22nd, 1889. — The first summer excursion of the 

 season took place under the guidance of Mr. John T. Carrington to Horsley, 

 Surrey. The party, which numbered upwards of a score, was conveyed iu 

 carriages from the station to Netley Heath, where collecting commenced. 



REVIEWS. 



Notes and Descriptions of a few Injurious Farm and Fruit Insects of South 



Africa. Compiled by Eleanor A. Ormeiiod, F.R. Met. Soc, &c. 



London: Simpkin, Marshall &■ Co. 1889. 



This little work of 110 pages is compiled from material supplied by 



Mr. S. D. Bairstow, President of the East Province Nat. Hist. Soc. of 



Cape Colony. Many of the species are actually new to science and have 



been described especially for this work by Mr. Oliver E. Janson, F.E S. 



Altogether, Miss Ormerod has noticed about fifty kinds of injurious insects, 



and the pages are profusely illustrated by woodcuts. The work cannot 



fail to be of much practical value to the Colony, as the talented authoress 



has had under consideration the commoner pests of South Africa. — J.T.C. 



A Contribution towards a Catalogue of the Neuropterous Fauna of Ireland' 



By James J. F. X. King. Glasgow, Nat. Hist. Soc, 207, Bath 



Street. 1889. 



Any contribution to a knowledge of the fauna of Ireland should be 



welcome, no matter how fragmentary. Doubtless, as Mr. King expresses 



in his opening remarks, much remains to be done in working out this 



group in Ireland. Encouragement will be found in the fact that although so 



little, comparatively, has been effected in this direction by entomologists in 



that country, four species at least have been found there, which have not 



yet occurred in Great Britain. In a summary of species at the end of the 



work there have been noticed a total of 73 genera and 211 species of 



Neuroptera as against 129 genera and 850 species recorded in Great 



Britain.— J. T. C. 



