190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
[In Kirby and Spence’s ‘ Introduction to Entomology’ the 
line is stated to be one-twelfth of an inch; but there is a 
diversity of practice in this respect, which is extremely 
puzzling.—Ldward Newman. | 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Marcu 15, 1875. 
Lepismodes inquilinus ?—Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked that 
the species of Lepisma exhibited at the last meeting, by 
Mr. F. H. Ward, did not, on examination, correspond, as he 
expected, with the description of L. domestica, a common 
species in the United States, nor did it coincide exactly with 
the descriptions of any of the other described species, so far 
as he had been able to compare them. 
Lipura corticina.—Prof. Westwood said he had seen 
British examples of Lipura corticina, Bourlet, on apple trees, 
though the insect was not included as British in Sir John 
Lubbock’s Monograph. 
Boisduval’s Sphinges——Mr. Butler read the following 
review of Boisduval’s recently-published volumes of the 
Suites a Buffon (Lepidoptéres), containing the Sphingide 
(including Zygena, &c.):—“ Dr. Boisduval’s long-expected 
work on the Sphingide has at length appeared: it is 
illustrated by eleven excellent coloured plates; and if these 
had been published without the letterpress, Lepidopterists 
would have had cause to be grateful to the author; as it is, 
the work of this veteran entomologist contains so many errors 
and omissions, that it only obscures the subject which it 
should have assisted in illuminating. Not only has Dr. Bois- 
duval, in the three hundred and eighty pages devoted to this 
magnificent group, apparently taken no pains to ascertain 
what has been done by other workers during the last nineteen 
years (entirely overlooking even the Supplement to Mr. 
Walker’s Cataiogue), but he has returned to the errors of 
Fabricius and his contemporaries, in his disregard of the law 
of priority: he calmly renames well-characterized genera and 
