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preserved larvae, showing the life-histories of many common 

 species, were exhibited by the Secretary, Mr. Walter A. Pearce. 

 Mr. H. T. Dobson's box contained a very good specimen of 

 Vanessa antiopa, caught at New Maiden ; also Stauropus fagi 

 and others. Among the other exhibitors were — Mr. West, of 

 Streatham, with Anticlea sinuata ; Mr. Cook with Deilephila 

 livomica ; Mr. Machin with Acronycta alni and Geometra smarag- 

 daria ; and Mr. VV. H. Tugwell with Vanessa urticce of very 

 uncommon dark appearance, besides Sesia sphegiformis, Acronycta 

 alni, and others. Nor were the Coleoptera or Hymenoptera 

 unrepresented, for the excellent exhibits of Mr. T. R. Billups 

 and Mr. G. A. Lewcock formed an exhibition in themselves. 

 Among the numerous specimens shown by the former gentleman 

 was Dytiscus lapponicus from Scotland, the rare and minute 

 Gymnusa brevicollis, Orchesia micans, and a species believed to be 

 new to Britain, viz., Trichopteryx brevicornis ; and among the 

 Fossorial Hymenoptera was Odynerus reniformis, with its parasite 

 Elampus panzeri, and an exceeding rarity in the shape of a 

 seven-legged specimen of Phorbia fl,uccosa. Among Mr. Lewcock's 

 exhibit I noticed Donacia menyanthidis, Pachyta collaris, and the 

 local species Malachius ruficollis and M. pulicarius, besides others 

 equally good in the eyes of coleopterists ; the whole forming an 

 exhibition of which the South London Entomological Society 

 may be proud. — W. H. Wright; Secretary's Department, Inland 

 Revenue, November 21, 1884. 



EEVIEW. 

 Rhopalocera Europce descripta et delineata. The Butterflies 

 of Europe described and figured. By Henry C. Lang, 

 M.D., F.L. S., &c. Illustrated with more than eight 

 hundred coloured figures, drawn, mostly from nature, under 

 the direction of the author. Royal 8vo. London: L. Reeve 

 & Co., 1884. Vol. i., text pp. viii., 396; vol. ii. pp. xii. 

 plates lxxxii. 



Of late years the stud} 7 of Entomology bids fair to rival the 

 popularity of that of Botany. It is true that the subject is one 

 of enormous extent, and that very much still remains to be done 

 before our knowledge of even British insects can be said to be any- 

 thing like complete ; but every year the number of important 



