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April 2&th. — Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. W. West (Greenwich) exhibited numerous rare and interesting 

 specimens taken mainly by himself forty or fifty years ago. Many 

 were of local interest to entomologists of S.E. London. Included 

 were Pier is dajjlidice (Folkestone), Agrius convolvuli (Greenwich 

 Park), Hippotion celerio (Greenwich), Deiopeia pulcheUa (St. Mar- 

 garet's Bay), Spilosoma urticcB (Greenwich), ^"E. cynipiformis and 

 ^. myopcBformis (Greenwich), ^. culiciformis (Darenth), j3il. ichneu- 

 vioniformis (Lee), Colias hyale, C. edusa, and var. helice from the 

 Brockley railway-banks. — Mr. E. Adkin exhibited specimens of 

 Anthrocera, including the form supposed to be a hybrid between 

 A. achillecB and A. filipendiila, and stated that an examination of the 

 genitalia by Mr. Pierce had shown that the example in question 

 was the latter species. — Mr. Turner, a large number of Diptera, 

 IchneuraonidiB, and other Hymenoptera, sent to him from Waroona, 

 West Australia. — Mr. Sperring, specimens of Amphydasis strataria 

 bred from ova, all having extremely dark bands. — Mr. Sich read a 

 paper entitled "The Legs of Lepidopterous Larvae." — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Beport. Sec. 



EECENT LITEKATURE. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalcencs in the British Museum. 



Vol. ix. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. Pp. i-xv, 1-552. 



London. Printed by Order of the Trustees. 1910. 

 The present volume concludes the Acronyctinse, subfamily of the 

 Noctuidae. Including those in the Addenda, 727 species are here 

 catalogued and described, and these are distributed among some 187 

 genera, of which sixty are new. The British species included are 

 the following : — 



Gortyna, Treit. (1825), t. leucostigma, Hiibn. (also type of 

 Helotropha, Led., 1857). Apamea, Ochs. (1816), t. nictitans, L. 

 Xanthoecia, Hampson (1910), t. flavago, Schiff. Hydroecia, Dup. 

 (1844), t. micacea, Esp. Pyrrhia, Hiibn. (1827), t. jmrpurina, Esp., 

 includes umhra, Hufn. Ipimorpha, Hiibn. (1827), t. retusa, L., in 

 which is sunk Plastenis, Boisd. (1840), t. subtusa, Schiff. Meristis, 

 Hiibn. (1827), t. trigrammica, Hufn., also the type of Grammesia, 

 Steph. (1829). Calymnia, Hiibn. (1827), t. trapezina, L., also of 

 Eitperia, Guen. (1839) ; the other British species in the genus are 

 diffinis, L. (t. of Eustegriia, Hiibn. (1827) ), pyralina, Schiff., and 

 affinis, L. Dicycla, Guen. (1852), t. oo, L. (also type of Eugramma, 

 Steph. (1850)). Enargia, Hiibn. (1827), t. paleacea, Esp. (also type 

 of Eitperia, Guen. (1841)). Phragmatiphila, Hamps. (1910), t. typha, 

 Thnb. (also type of Nonagria, Hiibn. (1827)). Arenostola, Hamps. 

 (1910), t. phragmitidis, Hiibn. ; the other British species included in 

 this genus are lutosa, Hiibn., brevilinea,'Eenn., elymi, Tveit., fluxa, 

 Hiibn., = hellmanni, Ev., pygmina, Haw., = fulva, Hiibn., bo7idii, 

 Knaggs, = morrisii, Tutt, and extrema, Hiibn., = concolor, Guen. 

 Archanara, Walk. (1866), t. No7iagria polita, Walk. (E. Asia) ; the 

 British species referred to this genus are geminipiincta, Haw., 

 dissoluta, Treit., = neurica, Hiibn., figs. 659-661, neurica, Hiibn., 

 fig. 381, = edelsteni, Tutt, sparganii, Esp., algce, Esp., = cannce, Ochs. 



