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of Mimic to Model." — Mr. G. Befchune-Baker contributed "A Mono- 

 graph on the Genus Oriyris." — H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 March 9th.— Mr. Hugh Main, B. Sc, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. Harrison exhibited a living specimen of a large green orthopterou 

 found among bananas imported from Jamaica. — Mr. Main, a box in 

 which a living Javan spider had been kept. A number of ova had 

 been deposited, and a brood of young spiders had emerged. These had 

 spun a dense mass of web, and then shed their skins. He also showed 

 a photograph of the larva of Apatara iris in its hybernating position 

 on a leaf of sallow. — The remainder of the evening was spent in an 

 exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Dennis, Lucas, Tonge, Harri- 

 son, and Main. 



March 23>7/. — The President in the chair. — Mr. H. Moore, a large 

 globe-fish {Tetrodoii fahaka) from the Red Sea, and contributed notes. — 

 Messrs. Harrison, Main, and Cowham, long bred series of Colias edusa, 

 from ova deposited by an example of helice sent by Dr. Chapman from 

 South France in 1901. Seventy-nine were males, seventy-one females. 

 Of the latter, nineteen were typical, fifty-two helice. Only one or two 

 specimens were in any degree intermediate in shade. Mr. Edwards, 

 Papilio peranthus from Java, P. <jelon from New Caledonia, P. encelades 

 from Celebes, and P. acanda froin the United States. — Mr. West 

 (Greenwich), some large species of Homoptera and Heteroptera from 

 South Africa. — Mr. Kaye, preserved larvse of Triphana interjecta, and 

 pointed out the distinguishing characters from the larva of T. orbona, 

 also exhibited. — Mr. J, W. Tutt gave an address on " Our British 

 Plumes," illustrating his remarks on classification by a philogenetic 

 tree. — Hy. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Entomological Club. — A meeting was held on March 21st, 1905, 

 at 58, Kensington Mansions, South Kensington, the residence of 

 Mr. Horace St. John K. Donisthorpe, the president and host of the 

 evening. The members present were — Messrs. Adkin, Chitty, Donis- 

 thorpe, and Verrall, and there were about a dozen visitors. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 

 Works on Mosquitoes. 



The Mosquitoes or Cidicidce of New York State. By E. P. Felt. 



Bull. 79, Entom. 22. New York State Museum. Pp. 400 + 



57 plates. Albany (1904). 

 This work deals in a most able and sound scientific manner with 

 the mosquitoes of tiie State of New York. The plates, taken from 

 photos of the wings, male genitalia, scales, and larval characters, are 

 beautiful reproductions. It forms an almost complete natural history 

 of the New York State species of a high scientific standard. A most 

 interesting part is the appendix, which consists of a " Generic Revision 

 of Culicidse " of the State. Only true Anopheles occur, but of the 



