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M.A., W. D. Harrison, and W. A. Tyerman. — The Vice-Presidential 

 address was then dehvered by Dr. J. Harold Bailey, of Port Erin, 

 Isle of Man, and was entitled " The Coleoptera of the Isle of Man." 

 Dr. Bailey dealt with his subject in a most illuminating and scientific 

 manner; he described the climate and topography of the island 

 exhaustively, showing the influence of the ocean currents and pre- 

 vailing winds upon the flora and fauna. The geological structure of 

 the island was also considered, so far as related to the beetles and 

 their distribution in this interesting area. Dr. Bailey discussed the 

 probable date when there must have existed a land connection between 

 the coast of Ireland on the west and that of Lancashire on the east, 

 as evidenced by the numbers of various classes of Coleoptera and 

 plants belonging to different periods of migration. Lengthy com- 

 parisons were made in this connection between the numbers and 

 species of the different migrations, as now existing on the adjacent 

 coasts, as well as in the case of the Alpine forms found on the Manx 

 mountains and in the highlands of Scotland and Ireland. As this 

 paper will be bound up with the new list of the Coleoptera of Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire shortly to be published by the Society, it is hoped 

 that it will be read by all students of the distribution of insects. A 

 vote of thanks to Dr. Bailey having been proposed and suitably re- 

 plied to, the following exhibitions were made, viz. — Mr. C. B. 

 Williams, a fine female example of the olive-banded form of Bovihyx 

 (juercus, bred, 1907, from a Wallasey larva ; Mr. Eobert Newstead, a 

 case showing the complete life-history of the common house-fly, 

 which he had worked out, in his usual painstaking and thorough 

 manner, during the past summer ; Mr. J. J. Kichardson, about seventy 

 species of Lepidoptera taken from the lamps round Sefton Park, 

 Liverpool, during 1907. These included a variety of Halia vauaria, 

 Noctua rubi, Plusia iota, P. pulchrina, Epione apiciaria, Eugonia 

 alniaria, Himera pennaria, Leucoma salicis, and Cymatophora 

 cliiplaris. — H. K. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbeidge, Hon. Sees. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — November 18th, 1907. — • 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. Leslie 

 Frederick Burt, Edgbaston, was elected a member. — Mr. J. T. Fountain 

 exhibited a long and variable series of Apamea testacea, Hb. — Mr. 

 H. W. Elhs showed various Coleoptera: Lathrobium Icevipeiine, Heer, 

 a species not long known as British, of which he found six specimens 

 in the Blatch collection from Knowle, Bewdley, and Cannock ; and 

 he had also taken it at Knowle ; Agabits affinis, Pk., from Sutton. 

 He said that he had previously also recorded A. unguicularis. Thorns., 

 from thence, but that on sending the specimens to Mr. Balfour 

 Brown they all proved to be affinis ; Dermestes vulpinus, F., from 

 Fareham, wdiere the larvae were eating the wooden beams in a 

 manure factory. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker showed butterflies of the 

 genus Epinephele, chiefly from Turkestan. — Mr. Hubert Langley, 

 Lobophora ca)pinata, Bkh., from Princethorpe Wood, and said that 

 he had also taken L. halterata, Hufn. there. — Colbran J. Wain- 

 WRiGHT, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological Society. — November I'dth 

 1907. — Rev. C. R. N. Burrows exhibited Camptogramma Jiuviata 



