190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[In Kirby and Spence's ' Introduction to Entomology' the 

 line is stated to be one-twelfth of an inch ; but there is a 

 diversity of practice in this respect, which is extremely 

 puzzling. — Edward Newman.'] 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of London. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G,, President, in the 

 chair. 



Maech 15, 1875. 



Lepismodes inqitilinus? — Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that 

 the species of Lepisma exhibited at the last meeting, by 

 Mr. F. H. Ward, did not, on examination, correspond, as he 

 expected, with the description of L. domeslica, a common 

 species in the United States, nor did it coincide exactly with 

 the descriptions of any of the other described species, so far 

 as he had been able to compare them. 



Lipura corticina. — Prof. Weslwood said he had seen 

 British examples of Lipura corticina, jBoi^r/e/, on apple trees, 

 though the insect was not included as British in Sir John 

 Lubbock's Monograph. 



BoisduvaVs Sphinges. — Mr. Butler read the following 

 review of Boisduval's recently-published volumes of the 

 Suites a Buflfon (Lepidopteres), containing the Sphingidse 

 (including Zygaena, &c,) : — " Dr. Boisduval's long-expected 

 work on the Sphingidse has at length appeared : it is 

 illustrated by eleven excellent coloured plates; and if these 

 had been published without the letterpress, Lepidopterists 

 would have had cause to be grateful to the author; as it is, 

 the work of this veteran entomologist contains so many errors 

 and omissions, that it only obscures the subject which it 

 should have assisted in illuminating. Not only has Dr. Bois- 

 duval, in the three hundred and eighty pages devoted to this 

 magnificent group, apparently taken no pains to ascertain 

 what has been done by other workers during the last nineteen 

 years (entirely overlooking even the Supplement to Mr. 

 Walker's Catalogue), but he has returned to the errors of 

 Fabricius and his contemporaries, in his disregard of the law 

 of priority : he calmly renames well-characterized genera and 



