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Prof. Westwood remarked on the extreme rarity of fossil 

 Lepidoptera, and called attention to a recent paper by 

 Mr. A. G. Butler, in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1889, in which 

 the author described a new genus of fossil moths belonging 

 to the Geometrid family EiischemidiB, from a specimen 

 obtained by Mr. A'Court Smith at Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. 



Papers, dc, read. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe read a paper entitled "Additional Notes 

 or the genus Hilipus," and exhibited a number of new species 

 belonging to that genus. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker read a paper entitled "Notes on the 

 Entomology of Iceland." The author stated that the earliest 

 information on the Entomology of Iceland was contained in a 

 book by Olassen and Povelsen, published at Copenhagen in 

 1772, a copy of which was in the Royal Library at Copenhagen. 

 The paper contained lists of all the species of Coleoptera, 

 Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera (Heterocera), Neuroptera, Hemi- 

 ptera, and Diptera, enumerated by the authors above- 

 mentioned, by Paijhull, and by Staudinger, in addition to 

 those of the species collected or observed in the island last 

 June and July by Mr. P. B. Mason, and by the author, in 

 their recent expeditions. 



Mr. Roland Trimen asked if any butterflies had been found 

 in the island. Dr. Walker said that neither he nor Mr. P. B. 

 Mason had seen any during their recent visit to Iceland, nor 

 were any species given in Dr. Staudinger's list. Mr. Mason, 

 in reply to a question by Mr. G. C. Champion, said that during 

 his recent visit to Iceland he had collected nearly a hundred 

 species of insects, including about twenty Coleoptera. He 

 added that several of the species he had taken had not been 

 recorded either by Dr. Staudinger or Dr. Walker. Mr. Elwes 

 enquired if Mr. J.J. Walker, with his great experience as a 

 collector in all parts of the world, was aware of any land 

 except Iceland, outside the Arctic Circle, from which no 

 butterflies had been recorded. Mr. J. J. Walker replied that 

 the only place in the world which he had visited, in which 

 butterflies were entirely absent, was Pitcairn Island. 



