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authors: Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford; Mr. Malcolm Burr ; 
Dr. Arthur G. Butler; Mr. George Champion (3 papers) ; 
Dr. Thomas A. Chapman (3 papers); Mr. Henry J. Elwes, 
F.R.S.; Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., and the late Mr. 
Osbert Salvin, F.R.S.; Mr. E. Ernest Green and Mr. Malcolm 
Burr ; Mr. George U. Griffiths ; Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. ; 
Mr. Martin Jacoby ; the Rev. William F. Johnson and Mr. 
George H. Carpenter; Mr. John Henry Leech ; Mr. Robert 
McLachlan, F.R.S.; Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S.; Mr. James 
W. Tutt; and Mr. George H. Verrall. . 
Of these Papers, 16 are descriptive, systematic or faunistic, 
and relate: four to Coleoptera, one to Diptera, one to Hemi- 
ptera, seven to Lepidoptera, two to Neuroptera, and one to 
Orthoptera. Of the remaining Papers, four deal with life- 
histories in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera (2) and Orthoptera ; one 
deals with experimental breeding, and one with the morphology 
of the frenulum in Lepidoptera. 
The Memoirs are illustrated by 19 plates, of which 3 are 
coloured. 
The Society is indebted to Mr. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., for 
the cost of Plates II and III; to the West India Committee 
of the Royal Society and British Association for the cost of 
Plate XVIL;' to: Mr. H. J. Elwes, F:R:S:, and) Dr, DT: -A. 
Chapman for a portion of the cost of Plates V-XVI; and 
to Mr. J. H. Leech for a portion of the cost of printing 
Paper XV. 
The Journal of Proceedings, containing an account of, and 
notes on, Exhibitions and Discussions at the Meetings, extends, 
exclusive of the Report of the Annual Meeting, to 43 pages. 
This is of somewhat shorter length than usual, owing to 
several of the Meetings having yielded but little material for 
record. It need scarcely be pointed out that the remedy for 
this lies with those Fellows who attend the Meetings. 
The most notable event of the year is the bequest to the 
Society, by the will of the late Mrs. H. T. Stainton, of such 
books from her late husband’s library as were not already in 
the Society’s possession. The bequest was made kuown in 
October, and the selection of books from the late Mr. Stainton’s 
library, which included that formerly belonging to James 
