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interesting case with the imago, cocoon, and pupal skin of Cossjis 

 ligniperda, and the lianging puparium of Uropteryx sambucata ; also a 

 box of sandhill Lepidoptera. — Fredk. Birch, Joint Sec. 



The Entomological Club. — Since our last Report (Entom. xxxii. 

 49), meetings were held as follows :— December 4th, 1899, at Wellfield, 

 Lingard's Road, Lewisham, the residence of Mr. Robert Adkin. 

 January 16th, 1900, at the Holborn Restaurant ; Mr. G. H. Verrall in 

 the chair. — R. South, Hoji. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Transactions af the City of London Entonioloffical and Natui'al History 

 Society for the year 1898. Pp. 68. Published by the Society, 

 November, 1899. 

 Although rather late in appearance, the ' Transactions ' of this 

 Society just to baud are in no way behind previous volumes in the 

 matter of interest. Besides the Reports of Meetings and the Presi- 

 dent's Address there are five papers, four of which deal with insects, 

 and the first instalment of "The Fauna of the London District." 

 The entomological papers are as follows : — " Some Cicadides," by 

 Ambrose Quail (3 pp.) ; " On some Heredity Experiments with 

 Coremiaferruyata," by Louis B. Prout (9 pp.); "Beetle Coloration," 

 by H. Heasler (8 pp.) ; " Notes on the Broads," by H. Fuller (3^ pp.). 

 The district list of Lepidoptera is that of Dr. F. J. Buckell, edited, 

 with additions subsequent to 1893, by L. B. Prout. The present 

 portion extends to thn'teeu pages, and enumerates one hundred and 

 seventy-one species. Tlic arrangement, except as regards the butter- 

 flies, is that of the 'Entom. Syn, List,' but the generic nomenclature 

 is not in accordance with that list or any work on British Lepidoptera. 



Fauna Hawaiiensis. By E. Meyrick. Vol. i. pp. 123-275, plates iii-vii. 

 Macro-Lepidoptera. June 8th ,1899.* 



In this Part are included all the Lepidoptera, " except the Ptero- 

 phoridfe, Tortricina, and Tineina." 292 species (arranged under 

 forty-nine genera) are described, of which 200 are new; of the former, 

 261 {— 89 per cent.) are endemic. 



The geographical distribution of the genera and species is dealt 

 with at some length, but although such considerations — particularly 

 from a specialist — should receive every attention, due caution in the 

 acceptance of the results is very necessary. Distant exposed,! several 

 years ago, tlie empiricism of drawing "great conclusions in geogra- 

 phical distribution from generic calculations alone." The specific 

 constitution of the islands is as follows : — 



Caradrinina 61 species. 



Notodontina 60 ,, 



- See also Entom. 1900, pp. 23-4. 



f 1878, Trans. Ent. See. Lond. p. 173, " Notes on Some Hemiptera 

 Homoptera." 



