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hundred and thirty-eight pages, containing twenty-four 

 Memoirs, contributed by the following authors : Mr. Nelson 

 Annandale, Professor Christopher Aurivillius, Mr. George 

 Bethune-Baker, Mr. Horace A. Byatt (with a note by Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Poulton), Mr. J. Chester Bradley, Mr. George C. 

 Champion and Dr. Thomas A. Chapman (with description 

 by Professor 0. M. Reuter), Dr. T. A. Chapman (three papers), 

 Mr. John Alexander Dell, Mr. W. L. Distant, Mr. Herbert 

 Druce and Mr. Hamilton Druce, Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Sir 

 George F. Hampson, Bart., Mr. John C. TV. Kershaw (two 

 papers), Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, Mr. Arthur M. Lea, Dr. 

 George B. Longstaff, Mr. E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Mr. E. 

 Meyrick, Mr. Claude Morley, Mr. Edward Saunders, and Dr. 

 David Sharp and Mr. F. Gilbert Smith. 



Of these twenty-four papers no less than fourteen relate to 

 Lepidoptera, three to Rhynchota, three to Hymenoptera, two 

 to Coleoptera, and one to Diptera, while Mr. Champion and 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman's paper, " Another Entomological Excur- 

 sion to Spain," deals with Coleoptera, Hemiptei'a-Heteroptera, 

 and Lepidoptera. 



The Memoirs above referred to are illustrated by nineteen 

 plates, including two maps, of Avhich eight are coloured. The 

 entire cost of Plates XVIII and XIX has been defrayed by 

 Mr. E. Meade-Waldo, and of Plate X by Mr. F. DuCane 

 Godman. Dr. T. A. Chapman has given the whole cost of 

 Plate VIII, and half the cost of Plates II, III, IV, V, VI, 

 and XII, and Professor E. B. Poulton half the cost of Plate 

 XIV. Blocks inserted in the text of the Transactions and 

 the Proceedings have also been given by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown. The 

 volume of the Proceedings, consisting of about eighty pages 

 in all, has been well kept up, thanks to the increased number 

 of interesting exhibitions made by Fellows, and the notes read 

 by them at the meetings, which also show a satisfactory 

 average of attendances. 



During the past year eighteen volumes — in addition to one 

 hundred and eighty-seven periodicals, pamphlets, and reprints 

 — have been added to the Society's Library, the increased use 

 of which is demonstrated by the fact that, according to the 



