160 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In typical L. buquetii, with the heaviest black borders to the 

 primaries, I find decidedly more examples with twelve than with 

 eleven veins ; in the slightly narrower bordered Arabian form 

 there are more examples with eleven than with twelve veins ; in 

 all the South African forms, whether broadly bordered, narrowly 

 bordered, or without borders, I have found twelve veins. 



I note, however, that vein 11 (the first subcostal branch), 

 whenever present in L. buquetii and its forms, is anastomosed 

 for a short distance with vein 12 (the costal vein) ; yet this 

 anastomosis would seem to be of recent date, inasmuch as, when 

 examined with the wing facing the light, both veins seem to exist 

 separately, the culmen of each vein being apparently indicated. 

 When damped with benzine and held between the eye and the 

 light the anastomosis appears to be normal, the ridges not being 

 visible. In some examples only a portion of vein 11 is present. 



Prof. Aurivillius gives a second character by which he dis- 

 tinguishes his genus Leuceronia, viz. : — " Veins 8 and 9 out of 6, 

 10 only free from the discoidal cell." 



This is probably a misprint for " veins 8 and 9 out of 7," 

 because, if veins 8 and 9 forked from 6, it would be difficult to 

 account for vein 7. One might imagine that veins 6 and 7 

 coalesced throughout, but in such case the learned Professor 

 would have had to describe his genus as possessing ten veins 

 only ; whilst it would be impossible to assert positively that vein 

 7 (rather than 6) had disappeared. 



Apart from the anastomosis of vein 11 with 12, there is 

 nothing to distinguish L. buquetii generically from Eronia argia, 

 and, as this anastomosis necessarily disappears entirely where 

 vein 11 is not present, it may be questioned whether the argia 

 group ought to be excluded from Leuceronia. I think not. As 

 to whether these forms should be considered distinct from Eronia, 

 I think, matters little ; they have a very different aspect. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB. 



A short account of this Club was given in the 'Entomo- 

 logist ' for 1892 (xxv. pp. 4-9), and it was then mentioned that a 

 certain portion of the archives were missing. Eecently, we are 

 happy to say, a minute-book, with a small account-book, have 

 been discovered, and it is now therefore possible to furnish some 

 items of information that were not available when the aforesaid 

 brief history of this venerable institution was penned. 



Turning first of all to the cash-book, we find that although 

 it is simply a small volume of thirty-six leaves, it contains par- 

 ticulars of receipts and expenditure during thirty-eight years 

 (i.e. from 1836 to 1874), and many of the pages are still blank. 



