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June 1st. — Mr. James Murray in the chair. Mr. G. B. Routledge 

 showed Bembidium monticola and Hydroporus davisii, from Gelt River. 

 Mr. J. Murray, species of Bembidia, including B. atro-caruleum, B. 

 decorum, B. monticola, B . punctulatum, Tachypus flavipes, Stenus guttula, 

 Tacky usa flavitarsis, Helophorus granulans — all from the river Irthing. 

 Mr. F. H. Day, Bradycellus cognatus, Pterostichus vitreus, P. cethiops, 

 Cymindis vaporariorum, Helophorus arvernicus, Calathus micropterus, 

 from Castle Carrock Fell ; Bembidium stomoides, B. paludosum, from 

 Gelt ; Phytodecta olivacea var. nigricans, which is a rare variety. Mr. 

 Wilkinson, Tephrosia crepuscularia (biundularia), Hypsipetes ruberata, 

 Lobophora carpinata, Bupalus piniaria, from Carlisle. Members reported 

 Lepidoptera to have been scarce ijiis spring. — G. B. Routledge. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — May 15th, 1899. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. Mr. A. H. Martineau showed 

 a few insects taken at St. David's, S. Wales, on April 22nd, this year. 

 He found there a very large colony of Anthophora piiipes, accompanied 

 with great numbers of Melecta armata. They were in a most inaccessible 

 spot, burrowing in a bank of drift, and although they were in thousands 

 he was only able to secure two or three males of each. He also showed 

 Ammophila hirsuta and Nomada succincta from the same district. Mr. 

 J. T. Fountain showed a boxful of Lepidoptera, all taken this year, 

 including male specimens of Satumia pavonia, taken at Sutton on 

 April 30th, by sembling ; Selenia illunaria, from Acocks Green ; a lot 

 of Taeniocarnpge, including Pachnobia rubricosa, from Marston Green ; 

 Anticlea badiata, from Knowle and Marston Green ; and Anisopteryx 

 (Bscuiaria, from Moor Green. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, two drawers 

 full of Palaearctic Melanargias and Erebias. — Colbran J. Wainwright, 

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The Butterfly Book : a Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of 

 North America. By W. J. Holland, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., &c. 

 Size 10 x 7 inches. Pp. i-xx, 1-382. Plates, coloured, 48. 

 New York : Doubleday & McClure Co. 1899. 

 This book is, so far as we know, the first attempt that has been 

 made to bring together in a convenient form, and present in a more or 

 less popular style, the information that is possessed in reference to the 

 various species of butterflies occurring in North America, The author 

 has acquired all the types of W. H. Edwards and Theodore L. Mead, 

 and has had the use of the types of species recently described by Dr. 

 Henry Skinner. His collection, which is claimed to be the most com- 

 plete of the diurnal Lepidoptera of North America extant, has been 

 utilised as the basis of the hundreds of figures which are given on the 

 forty-eight excellent coloured plates. These figures are photographed 

 directly from the specimens themselves, the colouring being reproduced 

 with remarkable accuracy. With the exception of a few obscure or 

 unimportant species, all the butterflies recorded on the American 

 continent from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle are delineated 

 by the new photographic process. One hundred and fifty species are 



