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miles from the coast here. I may add that Vanessa c-album occurs very 

 sparingly in this part of Montgomervshiro. — Alfkkd S. Tetlky; Llwyuoii- 

 Newtown, N. Wales, Feb. 9ih, 1897. 



Lepidopteka of the Scilly Isles. — I am going down to the Scilly 

 Isles at Easter, and should be glad of any information regarding the 

 Lepidoptera of the islands. I am only a beginner, so any information 

 through the 'Entomologist' would be thankfully received. — W.Hunt; 

 2, 4 & G, Albert Bridge, xMauchester, Feb. 13th, 1897. 



CoLEOPrEiiA IN .Ianuaky. — The weather during the early part of 

 January Imving been exoeptionally mild, my brother and I have been busily 

 engaged in collecting Goleoptera, principally by cutting grass tufts and 

 examining bark of trees. We have during the lirst fortniglit taken abnnt 150 

 species, among the more interesting of which are: — Dyschirius glohosus 

 (common), llarpalus laiun, Metdllctus obscutoiiuiLatus, FaUu/ria sulcata 

 (common), Conurus pubescens, Qitedia^ m.'iurortifns, Lathrobium lowinluia, 

 Stiliciis orbicuUitus, Stenus pubescens. S picipeuuis. S. latifrom, Phhi'oiiuin 

 clypeatuin, Pselaphus heisel (owe), TycliUH iiiyer, Bryaxis J'ossitlala, B.jiui- 

 corum [not uncommon), Scydiiucnus collaris, S. scuteltaris, Choleva inorin, 

 C. trisiis, 0. serlcea, Parnus auriculatus, Lona cyaneUa C'hrysoiiiela 

 vaiians, Cassida obsoleta, Apioii dijfunue, Hypera pohjyoni, Liosoiiia 

 ovatuluni. Bayous aiismaiis, Tychias picirostris, Rkinoncus castor, Bala- 

 iiluus bruisicce, Ocalea badia, Hygronoma diinidiata, Othius melanocephahis, 

 Gorlicaria fuscula, Psylliodes piciiia, Ocypus cupreus, O. fuscatus, Achenium 

 depressuin, Antlionoinus uhni, Ceuthorrliynclius litura, Ceutkorrynchidius 

 jiontUs, Ho)iialiuin iopteruin, Leptusa rujicoUis. Cassida oblo)tya, Rldzo- 

 phayus bipnstulatus. — Beunaud S. Hauwoud ; Brooklyn Villas, Colchester. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London.— JrtH!tr/n/ 20^/(, 1897. The 

 SLrty-fourth Annual Meetiny. — Professor Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, 

 showing a balance in the Society's favour, having been read by one 

 of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, read the Report of the 

 Council. It was then announced that the following gentlemen had 

 been elected as Officers and Council for 1897 : President, Mr. Roland 

 Trimen, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secre- 

 taries, Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford and Mr. Frederic Merrifield ; 

 Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion ; and as other Members of the 

 Council, the Rev. Canon Fowler, Mr. Herbert Goss, Sir George F, 

 Hampson, Bart., Herr Martin Jacoby, Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., Mr. James W. Tutt, and Mr. G. H. Verrall. 

 The President then delivered an Address, and took for the subject, 

 " The Utihty of Specific Characters from the Point of View of the 

 Darwinian Theory." His remarks had reference to the paper on this 

 subject, read last June before the Linnean Society, by Dr. A. R. 

 Wallace, and the subsequent discussion. Prof. Meldola pointed out 

 that the question of " utility," as necessitated by the theory of 

 natural selection, had hitherto been made to depend too exclvisively 



