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The Trustees of the British Museum have issued a second, 

 much improved, edition of Mr. F. Smith's excellent monograph 

 of tlic English bees. 



Synoptical Catalogues, in a too condensed form, of the Scotch 

 Coleoptera by Messrs. Blackburn and D. Sharp, and of the 

 Scotch Lepidoptera by Dr. F. Buchanan White, have been con- 

 tinued in tlie ' Scottish Naturalist' for the past year. 



In English Lepidoptera the additions have been chiefly con- 

 fined to the description of the larva? of previously known species, 

 and for \Yhich we are indebted to Messrs. W. Buckler, G.T.Porritt, 

 C. Fenn and the Eev. J. Hellins. We can but regret to see so 

 little new on the Micro-Lepidoptera from Mr. Stainton's pen. 



In the Suctorial Hemiptera of Linnseus our Society has done 

 good service by the recent publication of the Catalogues of 

 British Heteroptera and Homoptera, and by the excellent 

 ' Synopsis of British Species of Heteroptera,' by Mr. Edward 

 Saunders, in our ' Transactions.' Messrs. Scott and Douglas 

 have continued their additions to the species of these groups 

 (especially the Homoptera), in the pages of the ' Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine,' and the excellent monograph on British 

 Psyllidaj in our Transactions. 



Mr. Buckton's monograph on the Aphida) will be noticed below. 



In British Diptera we are indebted to Mr. Verrall for articles 

 on the interesting family Dolichopidte, and to Mr. Meade for a 

 memoir on the difficult genus Sarcophaga, both published in the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine.' 



A separate work entitled ' Sketches of British Insects,' by the 

 Kev. W. Houghton, has appeared. 



The members of the Society are probably aware that the 

 Trustees of the Collection of British Lepidoptera of the late 

 Henry Doubleday have placed it in the Bethnal Green Museum. 

 A memorial with reference to its exhibition and preservation 

 having been presented b}^ the Haggerston, the East London, the 

 South London, and the West London Entomological Societies, 

 elicited a reply from the Director of the South Kensington 

 Museum (of which that of Bethnal Green is a branch), in which 

 it is stated that a room will be specially provided and an attendant 

 will be in readiness to show the collection to such persons as may 

 apply to the officer in charge for permission to inspect it. In a 

 further communication from the Director of the South Kensington 



