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common species. The records for the year were concluded in September 

 by the capture of Depressaria subpropinquella and Argyresthia brockella. — 

 Claude A. Pyett; Ipswich, December, 1897. 



Agrotis obscdra and Acronycta strigosa in Gloucestershire. — 

 One specimen of each of the above was taken by me at sugar last June. 1 

 believe the latter has not been previously reported from this part of Glouces- 

 tershire. C. octogesima, one at light and at sugar, and A. cinerea, eight at 

 light, were also taken. — J. D. Birchall ; Bowden Hall, near Gloucester, 

 Jan. 6th, 1898. 



Early Appearance of Phigalia pedaria (pilosaria). — I took a fine 

 male P. pedaria off a gas lamp outside Chester on Dec. 18th. The earliest 

 appearance of the moth I can find is Nov. 27th, 1881 (Entom. xx. 110). — 

 J. Arkle; Chester. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Annual Meeting, January 19th, 

 1898.— Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 The balance-sheet for the past year, showing a balance in favour 

 of the Society, and an improvement in the financial position, was read 

 by Mr. A. H. Jones, one of the Auditors. The Secretary then read 

 the Report of the Council, from which it was seen that during 1897 

 the Society had lost 7 Fellows by death and 5 by resignation, and had 

 elected 24, the total number now upon the list being 398. The 

 Transactions for the Year contained 19 memoirs, illustrated by 11 

 plates, and extending to 434 pages. As a mark of respect to the late 

 Mr. J. W. Dunning, the Council had decided to present his portrait as 

 a frontispiece to the volume of Transactions for 1897. It was 

 announced that the following Fellows had been elected as Officers and 

 Council for 1898 :— President, Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, 

 Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. W. F. H. Blandford and 

 Mr. Frederic Merrifield ; Librarian, Mr. G. C. Champion ; and as 

 other Members of Council, Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., Mr. M. Jacoby, Mr. A. H. Jones, 

 Dr. P. B. Mason, Mr. 0. Salvin, F.R.S., Mr. J. W. Tutt, Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall, and Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse. The President nominated as 

 Vice-Presidents, Sir George Hampson, Mr. McLachlan, and Mr. 

 Verrall, and his Address was then read on his behalf by the Secretary. 

 After briefly reviewing the position of the Society, and referring to the 

 losses of the past year through deaths within and without the Society, 

 particularly those of Dr. Fritz Miiller, Mr. J. W. Dunning, Captain 

 E. Y. Watson, Dr. G. H. Horn, the Rev. A. Matthews, and Herr 

 Rogenhofer, the President proceeded to review the subject of Mimicry. 

 The historical development of the theory by the work of Bates, Wallace, 

 and the President himself, together with the later amplifications of the 

 Batesian theory by Miiller, Meldola, Poulton, Haase, and Dixey, was 

 traced. An account was next given of the forms of mimicry ex- 

 isting outside the Lepidoptera, and in the order itself a general 

 summary was made of the relationships, as model or mimic, existing 

 among Rhopalocera, Heterocera, and between these two suborders 

 respectively, the group of phenomena exhibited by Papilio merope, P. 



