188 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
beating close in the neighbourhood, at Mickleham, in the same 
month in 1875, had the felicity of finding one specimen in his 
umbrella, since which time I am not aware that it has been taken, 
at any rate so near London. I think previous to Mr. Cham- 
pion’s taking this insect, it had only been met with once before 
in this country. The exceeding rarity of this Coleopteron is an 
excuse for this note, thinking it would not be uninteresting to 
many of your readers to know that there are still good things to 
be met with in the neighbourhood of Box Hill and its sur- 
roundings.—T. R. Brmups; 4, Swiss Villas, Coplestone Road, 
Peckham, 8.E. 
Haacrerston EnromonocicaL Soctrry.—The twenty-second 
anniversary of this Society was celebrated by a dinner at the 
“ Kings’ Oak” Hotel, High Beech, on the 11th of July, Mr. 
John Henderson, President of the Society, in the chair. Owing 
chiefly to the heavy rain in the morning, many members who were 
expected did not arrive, and the attendance was therefore not so 
good as upon previous occasions. During the day the following 
captures were effected :—Mr. C. M. Allen took a fine specimen of 
Triphena finmbria, settled upon grass opposite the ‘* Woodman ” 
Inn, at Chingford, in the afternoon; the anterior wings of this 
specimen are of a dark olive-green colour. Angerona prunaria 
was flying in unusual numbers between eight and nine p.m. 
Cidaria fulvata, Melanthia rubiginata, and other common species 
were very abundant.— W. J. VANDENBERGH, Secretary. 
REVIEWS. 
The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for the 
Year 1879. 
Ir has lately been our annual custom to give a reswmé of the 
work done by the Entomological: Society of London. This has 
been so fully and ably performed by Mr. J. W. Dunning in his 
address, read at the anniversary meeting, that this year it becomes 
necessary only to reprint his felicitous remarks. ‘They were as 
follows :— 
“The volume of Transactions for 1879 extends to three hundred and 
fifty pages, and (to say nothing of the several papers printed at length in 
the Proceedings) it contains twenty-five memoirs, illustrated by eleven 
