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between 4. lonicere and 4. filipendule, and pointed out its 
characteristics.—Mr. B. S. Williams, Polyommatus icarus ab. clara 
* from Cornwall and Ireland.—Mr. H. Leeds, a very large number of 
undersides of female P. icarus, showing 130 named forms worked out 
by Tutt’s ‘ British Lepidoptera.—Mr. K. G. Blair, the bark-boring 
Scolytid beetles Xyleborus dispar and X. saxesent from Kidderminster 
with burrows in plum-tree, and a Helzocopris, sp., from Siam with its 
dung-ball cut to show egg-cavity. 
RECENT SP hie 
Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Vol. vi, Nos. 1-9, 
November, 1920. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. London: 
W. Thacker & Co. 
A series of papers by the Imperial Entomologist, T. Bainbrigge 
Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S., etc., dealing with the Pterophorina, Tortri- 
cina, Tineine and Micropterygina of India so far as the members are 
at present known. 
About 430 species are here referred to. This would seem to 
indicate that one or more stages in the life-history of at least a sixth 
of the known species of these families occurring in the Indian Empire 
have been investigated. 
There are 68 plates (some in colour). 
Report of the Proceedings of the Third Entomological Meeting, held at 
Pusa, February, 1919. Edited by T. BainsrigeE FLETCHER. 
3 vols., pp. xii + 1137, 182 plates. Calcutta, Superintendent 
of Government Printing, 1920. 
THESE three volumes contain an almost verbatim report of the 
proceedings of the meeting, and cover practically the whole field of 
entomological work and organisation in India. The meeting was 
well attended, as the long list of papers—upwards of ninety—read 
before it clearly shows. The bulk of vol. i is occupied by an 
‘Annotated List of Indian Crop-pests,’”’ by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, 
the additional matter brought out in discussion being added through- 
out, and by the Chairman’s opening address. Vol. 11 mostly contains 
papers of purely economic interest, among which may be mentioned 
an exhaustive paper on the “ Pink Bollworm in Egypt,” by Dr. L. H. 
Gough, a short but interesting paper on ‘‘ Some Problems in Forest 
Insect Control,’ by C. F. C. Beeson, papers on lac-culture, silkmoths, 
etc. Vol. 11 has a number of papers of more general interest, deal- 
ing with such subjects as methods of collecting and preserving speci- 
mens, the importance of collecting, preparation of illustrations, by 
the Chairman, Dr. D. Sharp, Dr. Hankin, A. W. Sclater and C. C. 
Ghosh, papers of systematic interest, such as that by W. Ormiston on 
the genitalia of ‘the Hesperide of Ceylon, and short notes by Prof. 
K. B. Poulton, EK. Meyrick and Major Fraser on special subjects, 
mainly Lepidoptera. 
The Pusa Institute seems thus to aim at being the home of both 
pure and applied Entomology in India—a very excellent object. 
Its attainment would be welcomed alike by the professional and the 
amateur. 
