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anteniiie. Mr. Dobson, wasps' nests of the genus Odynerus, 

 found under a doorway in the New Forest. Mr. Billups, three 

 species of IchneumonidtB, new to Britain, viz., Bassus hlzonarius, 

 taken in his garden at Peckham, May, 1885 ; Erromenus {Tri- 

 chocali/mma, Foerst.) plebegum, Wolds., taken at Dulwich, June, 

 1885 ; PeTiUssus tnangidatiis, Bridgm., the male from Peckham, 

 and the female from Dulwich, May, 1885. Mr. Billups stated 

 he was indebted to his friend Mr. J. B. Bridgman, for the identifi- 

 cation of these species, which he had fully described in a paper 

 read before the Entomological Society of London, July 7th, 1886, 

 and printed in the Society's Transactions for 1880. The Secre- 

 tary^ then read the Council's Report, and the Treasurer an abstract 

 of his accounts for 1886. The election of officers for the cominsf 

 year was next proceeded with, and resulted as follows :^Mr. R. 

 Adkin, President; Mr. R. South, Vice-President, Mr. E. Step, 

 Treasurer ; Mr. Chaney, Librarian ; Mr. W. West (Greenwich), 

 Curator ; Mr. H. W. Barker, Secretary ; and Messrs. T. R. 

 Billups, J. T. Carrington, W. A. Pearce, W. H. Tugwell, J. R. 

 Wellman, W. West, and J. Jenner Weir, Council. — H. W. 

 Barker, Hon. Sec. 



REVIEW. 

 Rhopalocera Malayana : a Description of the Butterjiies of the 



Malay Peninsula. By W. L. Distant. Royal 4to, pp. 481 ; 



46 Coloured Plates and 129 Woodcuts. London: W. 



L. Distant, care of West, Newman & Co. Penang : 



D. Logan, Esq. 

 The first part of this magnificent work was reviewed in the 

 'Entomologist,' 1882, pp. 118, 119. The anticipation then 

 formed, that the result of Mr. Distant's laborious undertaking 

 would prove a masterpiece, has been fully justified. There can 

 be no doubt that the author has produced a really standard 

 work, which will be quite indispensable to the student of the 

 Rhopalocera of the Indo-Malayan sub-region, and also of the 

 greatest value to students of the order in the sub-regions 

 contiguous. The character of the chromo-lithographed plates, 

 which in the former review were said to be all that can be 

 desired, has been fully sustained throughout the volume. One 

 of the most instructive parts of the work is the very careful 

 manner in which the geographical distribution of each species 



