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male Epinephele ianira measuring only 38 mm. : (2) a pale ochreous 

 brown female of the same species ; (3) a male with a symmetrical pale 

 ochreous blotch on each wing and with white fringes ; and (4) a 

 Euholia 'plumharia with dark purplish slate-coloured fore wings with 

 ochreous edged transverse lines ; and, for Mr. Haynes, an aberrant 

 example of E. tithonus with the usual fulvous markings, but with the 

 marginal areas whitish instead of dark brown. The last was from 

 Salisbury, the first four from Devonshire. — Mr. Edwards, Urania 

 leilus, with a coloured plate, showing the life-history of this gorgeous 

 Jamaican moth. — Mr. F. Noad Clark, with the microscope, ova of 

 several species of Goleopliora and preparations of the ova to show 

 the structure of the micropylar area. — Dr. Chapman, Lepidoptera 

 collected in the Pyrenees, including Lyccena orhitulus var. oberthuri, 

 Erehia lappona var. sthennyo, E. lefebvrei, E. gorge, E. stygne, 

 E. ame, E. cecilia, E. tyndarus var. dromus, Oreopsyche pyrenceella, 

 and Marasviarcha tuttodactyla. — Mr. E. Adkin, (1) specimens of 

 Tortrix pronubana, bred from spring larvae ; (2) Melanippe fluctuata, 

 with the transverse band reduced to a mere speck ; (3) Agriades 

 corydon, females from Eastbourne, with more or less well-defined 

 blue scaling ; (4) a dark-suffused Boarmia roboraria ; and (5) forms 

 of Abraxas grossulariata with yellow-shaded ground. — Mr. Schoon, 

 Aporia cratcegi, Tapiinostola bondil, Bryopihila glandifera, and Sesia 

 chrysidiformis, from East Kent. — Mr. Willsdon, numerous species of 

 Lepidoptera, including gynandromorphous Crocallis elinguaria from 

 Manor Park, Heliothis peltigera, dark and light Catocala sponsa, and 

 C. promissa, &c. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Report. Sec. 



City of London Entomological Society. — November 5th. — 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a living male Gleogene pieletieraria bred 

 from ova laid in August, a species occurring only in the Pyrenees and 

 the Cantabrian Mountains. Dr. Chapman pointed out that the un- 

 expected throwing of a second brood by a single-brooded Alpine 

 species had been paralleled in Erebia cassiope. — Mr. J. A. Clark, 

 Peronea cristana vars. ruficostana and albicostana. — ^Mr. H. M. Edel- 

 sten. Abraxas grossulariata ex Raynor collection, with fasciated hind 

 wings. — Mr. W. Bloomfield, various Lepidoptera taken at Finchley 

 during 1907, including Bombycia ocularis. — S. J. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



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The Moths of the British Isles. By R. South, F.E.S., Ac. (Series I.— 

 Wayside and Woodland Series.) Pp. 343, pi. 159 (96 coloured, 

 with 671 figures). London and New York : F. Warne & Co. 

 1907. 7s. 6d. net. 

 This book is uniform with 'The Butterflies,' noticed in 'Ento- 

 mologist,' 1906, p. 166, and is even more marvellous in so far that 

 for an increase of one quarter in cost it gives half as many more 

 coloured plates, and more than a corresponding increase in text. It 



