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and value. With the exception of 1873, this is the first year in 

 the history of the Society that we have published nothing from the 

 pen of Prof. Westwood ; but I rejoice to add that our venerable 

 Life-President has completely recovered from the serious 

 accident which befell him in the spring. The Transactions are 

 now delivered gratis to every Member, in town and country alike, 

 whose subscription for the year has been paid ; this has neces- 

 sarily caused some little increase in our expenditure and some 

 diminution in our receipts ; but I trust this will be more than 

 counterbalanced by the increased number of our Members, which 

 ought to be the natural consequence of the more liberal policy 

 adopted under the auspices of our Treasurer. 



No small portions of the publications for 1884 of the Linnean 

 and Zoological Societies have been devoted to entomological 

 subjects. Thus, the second part of the Eev. A. E. Eaton's 

 " Revisional Monograph of recent Ephcmerid(e,'" and an im- 

 portant paper by Mr. Lowne, " On the Compound Vision and 

 the Morphology of the Eye in Insects," have appeared in the 

 Linnean Transactions, whilst the Journal of the same Society 

 contains a memoir by Mr. H. W. Bates, " On the Longicorn 

 Beetles of Japan." In the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society there are nine entomological papers, the authors being 

 Prof. Wood-Mason, the Rev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge, Colonel 

 Swinhoe, and Messrs. C. 0. Waterhouse, Godman, Salvin, 

 Druce, H. W. Bates, and Distant. But perhaps the most 

 striking entomological work produced in this country during the 

 year that has just expired is Mr. A. D. Michael's volume on ' The 

 British Onbatidte,' issued by the Ray Society as the volume for 

 1883. When it is remembered that Mr. Buckton's ' Monograph 

 of the British Aphides ' has only just been completed, that the 

 volume for 1884 (now on the eve of distribution) is another 

 instalment of Mr. Cameron's ' Monograph of the British Phyto- 

 phagous Hymenoptera,' and that the volume for 1885 is to be the 

 first portion of Mr. Buckler's " Lepidopterous Larvfe," I think it 

 must be admitted that the Ray Society has done well for British 

 entomologists, and merits all our support. It is perhaps to be 

 regretted that these entomological works cannot all be issued to 

 the public from one and the same source, and some day or other 

 this will have to be effected, by the co-operation or affiliation of 

 different societies and a classification of subjects. But that day 



