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pression laterad of the second lobe, of 6 orifices ; second row of 

 12 ; third row of 12 ; fourth row of 5 or 6 ; an inner row, 

 starting beneath the interlobular interval, is, excepting the 

 first two, only represented by a few very small and rudimentary 

 orifices. 



Mesilla Park, New Mexico, U.S.A., Jan. 4th, 1898. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



International Congress of Zoology. — We have received various 

 notices and lists of committees relating to the above ; also the follow- 

 ing : — " Memorandum. — At the Meeting of the International Congress 

 of Zoology at Leyden in 1895, it was agreed that the Fourth Congress 

 should be held in Great Britain, and that the President should be Sir 

 William Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S. Some time since the Permanent 

 Committee of the Congress accepted an invitation to assemble at 

 Cambridge, in August, 1898. At a General Meeting of British 

 Zoologists, invited by Sir W. Flower to confer as to the best means of 

 making this Congress a success, it was announced to our great regret 

 that the state of the elected President's health made it imperative for 

 him to resign. It was proposed that his place should be taken by the 

 Right Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and this proposal has met with 

 the unanimous approval of the Permanent Committee of the Congress. 

 — John Lubbock, President.''' Further particulars may be obtained 

 from Professor F. Jeffrey Bell, 3, Hanover Square, London, W. 



Two Aberrations of Lyc.ena (Polyommatus) jegon. — (1). A fine and 

 fully scaled female example captured by me on Dunyeats Hill, near 

 Poole, in June, 1893 (the exact day I have unfortunately lost), 

 differs from the typical form in the following particulars : — The usual 

 brown pigment of all the wings is absent from a space triangular in 

 shape ; on the fore wings the base of the triangle extends from the 

 anterior angle to the third median nervule, and the apex reaches to the 

 discoidal spot; within this space all the usual orange marks are absent. 

 On the hind wings the base of the triangle extends from the second 

 median nervule to the second subcostal nervule, and the apex of the 

 triangle reaches the discoidal spot. The usual orange marks are very 

 bleached, though not absent. (2). The row of spots in the outer 

 marginal cells of the fore wings have a tendency to coalesce and 

 extend towards the base of the wings. This specimen was captured 

 at the same time and place as the last-described insect. It is slightly 

 damaged. — W. Parkinson Curtis. 



Epione parallelaria in Scotland. — It may be interesting to know 

 that in a collection of local Lepidoptera temporarily formed by the 

 members of the South of Scotland Entomological and Natural History 

 Society from their cabinets, and exhibited at an entomological ex- 

 hibition held by them in 1895 at Galashiels, Epione parallelaria 

 {vcspertaria) was represented by two fine specimens. 



