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Martineau read a paper on a collection made in his house at Solihull. 

 He made the collection in consequence of a questioned statement that 

 100 species of insects enter a house in a year ; he had taken 136 during 

 the past year, and believed that if he had been able to collect more in 

 the daytime it might have been made up to 200. The most unexpected 

 captures were Acidalia virrjularia and Tinea seinifulvella, neither having 

 been previously known locally. He noticed that Cule.v annulatus and 

 pipiens, which were common in the cellars, only settled on the brick- 

 work, never on plastered laths which covered part of the ceiling. 



May 20th. — Mr. P. W. Abbott, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Exhibits : — By Mr. Abbott, a series of ZyycEna melUoti from the New 

 Forest, for comparison with some doubtful specimens of Mr. Wain- 

 wright's, which he believed to be only vars. of Z. lonicercB ; also a pale 

 specimen of Agrotis ripcB, bred, from Freshwater; and A. ashworthii 

 from N. Wales, bred by Mr. Gregson. By Mr. E. C. Bradley, Pompilus 

 viaticus from Wyre Forest, and remarked on the extraordinary activity 

 of the family Pompilidfe, and the difficulty of capturing them. By Mr. 

 Valentine Smith, a variety of Rhaninm hifasciatum from Edgebaston, 

 with the white colour much extended, making a white-looking speci- 

 men ; also Elater balteatus (1) from Edgebaston, and three Hister 

 purpurascens from New Street, in the centre of the city. 



June 1st to 4.th. — The fourth Annual Excursion was made to 

 Cannock Chase, but, owing to the dulness of the weather and the 

 very small attendance of members, nothing of importance was done, 

 though a number of insects were secured. — Colbran J. Wainwpjght, 

 Hon. Sec. 



EECENT LITEKATUEE. 



Abstract of Proceedings of the South London Ent ymological and Natural 

 History Society fur the year 1894, together with the President's 

 Address. Pp. 136. May, 1895. Published at the Society's 

 Eooms, Hibernia Chambers, London Bridge, S.E. 



The earlier issue of this publication is an improvement upon which 

 we heartily congratulate the Society from which it emanates, and 

 whose useful work it records. The detailed reports of the meetings 

 held during the year embrace many items of importance. Among the 

 papers, of which there are quite a respectable number, Mr. Tutt's 

 pleasantly written series of articles on Continental Zygjenidfe deserve 

 the attention of all interested in the group, but will hardly perhaps 

 close the question of synonymy as regards the species discussed. These 

 papers, together with the same writer's notes on Lepidoptera of the 

 Alps, and papers by Mr. W. F. Warne ("A Morning's Sport near 

 Eockhamptou, Queensland, Australia") and Mr. Mansbridge ("The 

 Ehopalocera of the Indian Territory in 1893-4 ") afford striking 

 evidence of the interest taken by members of the Society in the fauna 

 of countries other than their own. Mr. Adkin, in " Eeflections upon 

 odd Eambles on the Sussex Downs," makes some remarks on the 

 resting habits of Lycana corydon, and refers to some species which now 

 seem to have disappeared from the neighbourhood of Eastbourne, 



