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October 2ith, 1889.— T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. Messrs. W. Mansbridge, V. Garrard, C. H. CoUings, H. C. 

 Picliard-Cambridge, J, T. Wiukworth were elected full members ; and 

 Messrs. O.J. Wainwright and A. Ford as country members. Mr. Wellman 

 exhibited series of the second brood of Acidalia marginepunctata. Mr, R. 

 Adkin, specimens of Retinea resinella, with pupae and cocoons, and read 

 notes on the life-history of the species. Mr. W. West, Gordius aquaticus, 

 and contributed notes. Other exhibits were made by Messrs. Tugwell, 

 J. J. Weir, Ince, Adye, Moore, Fremlin, Auld, Mera, Manger, and by 

 Mr. Billups, on behalf of the Rev. W. F. Johnson and Mr. G. J. Grapes, 

 — H. W. Barker, Hon. See. 



REVIEWS. 



A Monograph of Oriental Oicadida. By W. L. Distant. Published by 



order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Oalcutta. Part I. 



pp. 24, S plates. Royal 4to. 1889. London: King & Oo., E. W, 



Janson, Oalcutta : India Museum, and ThacUer, Spink & Oo. Berlin ; 



R. Friedlander & Sohn. In parts, five shillings each. 



Mr. Distant has long been celebrated for his monographs of certain 



groups of Eastern Insects. In this he bids fair to excel those already 



issued by him. The fauna of the Oicadidae treated in this work comprises 



Oontinental India, Ceylon, the islands in the Bay of Bengal, Burma, the 



Malay Peninsula, the Malayan Archipelago, and Ohina and Japan, 



This area was not chosen by the author, but was selected at the request 



of the Indian Museum authorities. No monograph has previously been 



attempted, and Walker's "species" will now be analysed, and, where 



admitted, figured. Most of the Oontinental museums have placed the 



whole of their collections of the family in the hands of the author, who, 



with his own unrivalled collection, and those of the Oalcutta and British 



Museums, has seen all available material. 



The author has written in the style of his ' Rhopalocera Malayana,' to 

 which this will form a companion volume. The production of the work is 

 alike admirable for its scientific value, the accuracy of drawing of figures 

 (some being coloured) on the plates, which are by Mr. Horace Knight, and 

 the general production by Messrs. West, Newman & Oo. It will evidently 

 become a standard work on the Eastern Oicadidae. — J. T. 0. 



Notes on an extraordinary Race of Arctia mendica, Linn. By George T. 

 PoRRiTT, F.L.S., &c. 2 pp. Bvo, 1 coloured plate. 

 This is a reprint of a paper read before the Ent. Soc. Lend., July 

 3rd, 1889, and will be found useful to those who make special study of 

 variation in the Lepidoptera. Most of the remarkable forms figured are 

 now well known to British lepidopterists, but they have not hitherto been 

 figured for comparison upon one plate. When thus seen, we get a better 

 estimate of the value of variation, which in this case seems to point to an 

 immediate formation of a very distinct local race — dark, like some Lepi- 

 doptera occurring in Lancashire and Yorkshire, if such race has not long 

 existed near Huddersfield, and been overlooked, which seems improbable. 

 —J. T. 0. 



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