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cariwpliacja, pale forms, from Brighton ; Acronycta aceris, from San- 

 down, Isle of Wight ; Gucullia asteris, from the London district ; 

 and Pliorodesma smaragdaria, from Essex. • — Major Woodforde, of 

 Market Drayton, brought Zonosoma ycndularia var. subroseata, and 

 a new variety of the same species like subroseata, but with the pink 

 area ochreous, which he had bred this year for the first time. — Mr. 

 George Arnold, F.E.S., showed a number of species of Hymenoptera, 

 among them being Crabro aphidum, Formica nitidus, and F. zenus, 

 the two last out of nests of F. rufa from the New Forest. — Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce, F.E.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. T. Baxter, of St. Anne's, 

 the Luperina, allied to L. testacea. This species, only two specimens 

 of which have been previously taken in Lancashire, both by Mr. 

 Baxter, of St. Anne's, has occurred again this year, about a dozen 

 specimens having been captured. Mr. Pierce also exhibited micro- 

 scope-slides of the genitalia, showing the characters he relied upon 

 for differentiating the new moth from testacea. The same member 

 also had Abraxas grossulariata var. flavo-fasciata, from Wallasey; 

 Orgyia gonostigvia and Lyccena argiolus, from Essex; Triphcmia 

 comes, from Isle of Eig, and other local species. — Mr. W. Mansbridge, 

 F.E.S., showed a long series of Boarviia rep)andata var. nigra, from 

 Knowsley ; Melitaa auri?iia, from Barmouth ; and a series of Eiqn- 

 thecia valerianata, from Delamere Forest, this being the first record 

 for Cheshire. — Mr. C. E. Eaven exhibited a box of Lepidoptera from 

 Eye, Kent, including a varied series of Mesotype virgata ; Aplecta 

 nebulosa var. robsoni, from Delamere ; and Gnop)hos obscuraria var. 

 fasciata, from Folkestone. — Dr. Tinne exhibited a box of Ichneu- 

 monidae. — Mr. H. S. Leigh, of Manchester, a box of Tachinidce, and 

 contributed notes on the exhibit. — Mr. Eobert Tait, Jun., brought 

 two drawers of Lepidoptera, the result of the season's work, which 

 included Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoni, from Delamere ; Polia chi var. 

 olivacea, from Huddersfield ; Agrotis agatlmia, from North Wales ; 

 A. ashworthii, very light and very dark forms, from North Wales ; 

 Gucullia verbasci, bred from larvae found 1907 ; CymatopJwra ridens, 

 from New Forest larvae ; Eiipithecia pimiilata, from North Wales ; 

 and various species from the South of England, among them Moma 

 orion, horn Abbott's Wood. — H. E. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, 

 Hon. Sees. 



RECENT LITERATURE, 



A Descriptive Catalogue of the Dobree Collection of European Noctuce. 



Compiled by Horace B. Browne, M.A. Pp. i.-xv., and 1-156, 



medium 8vo. Hull and London : A. Brown & Sons, Ltd. 1909. 



Price Is. net. 



The late Henry Doubleday amassed, in addition to his historical 



collection of British moths and butterflies, a very comprehensive 



collection of European Lepidoptera. Both of these are now in the 



Bethnal Green Museum. 



At the present time the interest of many British students of 

 Lepidoptera is extended — chiefly perhaps as regards butterflies — 



