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view, the Council have appointed a special Publications Com-, 

 mittee, consisting of the executive officers of the Society for 

 the time being, with the assistance of Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 M.D., RZ.S., Mr. J. E. Collin, Mr. E. Saunders, F.R.S., 

 Mr. R. Shelford, M.A., F.L.S., and Mr. J. W. Tutt, who will 

 act as referees of papers submitted by authors, and advise 

 the Council on all matters connected with the Society's 

 publications. 



The Transactions for the year form a volume of six 

 hundred and seventy-three pages, containing twenty-five 

 Memoirs by the following authors : Mr, Gilbert J. Arrow, 

 F.E.S., Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., M.D. (three), Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey, M.A., M.D., Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 Mr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., Dr. J. L. Hancock, M.D., Mr. 

 Dukinfield Jones, F.Z.S., Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.D. (three), 

 Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S., Mr. J. C. Moulton, F.E.S., 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, M.A., F.R.S. (two), the Rev. 

 K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., 

 Mr. Hugh Scott, B.A., Col. C. Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. 

 Rowland E. Turner, F.E.S., and Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S. 

 (two). 



Of these papers, eleven refer to Lepidoptera, and two to the 

 special subject of Miillerian mimicry and Diaposematism in 

 connection therewith, two to Diptera, one to Rhynchota, one 

 to Orthoptera, three to Hymenoptera, and two to Coleoptera, 

 the rest being papers of general entomological interest. 



The Memoirs referred to are illustrated by thirty-four plates, 

 and three more are included in the Proceedings, making thirty- 

 seven in all, of which six are coloured. Plates I, II, III, 

 XXI have been paid for by the Society. The cost of Plate 

 XIV was given by Dr. T. A. Chapman, of Plate XXIV by 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. The blocks for Plates VIII- 

 XIII, XV-XVII, XIX, XX, and Plates A, B, and C, in the 

 Proceedings, were also given by Dr. Chapman (fourteen in all), 

 and the blocks for Plates XXIII and XXV-XXXIV (eleven 

 in all) by Professor Poulton. 



The quality and length of the Proceedings is well maintained, 

 and they include a number of short papers on all branches of 

 entomological science. 



