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common ; Oxypoda spectabilis, not common ; 0. metatarsalis, in two 

 localities, a nice series ; Homalota paradoxa ; Oxytelus fairmairii ; 0. 

 sculpturatus ; Medon castaneus; M. propinqua. Diptera : Hystricho- 

 psylla talpce, the mole flea. — Mr. W. A. Tyerman exhibited a long bred 

 series of Taniocampd gothica, which had fed on lilac ; and preserved 

 larva? of Odontopora bidentata, showing protective resemblance to the 

 lichen commonly found on birch-bark. — Mr. Oscar Whittaker living 

 examples of Plea minutissima. — H. E. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, 

 Hon. Sees. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — April 15th, 1907. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. E. C. Rossiter 

 showed TaBniocampae, bred from dug pupa? from Wyre Forest; amongst 

 them were specimens of T. incerta which approached T. stabilis so 

 nearly that he was uncertain to which species to assign them. — Mr. 

 Hubert Langley, various Lepidoptera from the neighbourhood of 

 Leamington, including Sarrothripus rev ay ana, Sc, taken on sallow 

 bloom and new to Warwickshire, and dark forms of Hybernia mar- 

 ginalia, Bork., female, H. lexicophaaria, Schiff, and Chimabache fagella, 

 F. — Mr. J. T. Fountain, a large number of Lepidoptera taken already 

 this year, including live Biston strataria, Hufn., taken that day at 

 Sutton, Panolis griseovariegata, fine specimens from Sutton, Vanessa 

 polychloros and Polygonia c-aibum from Wye Valley, &c. He remarked 

 on the extraordinary resemblance of the Patiolis to bits of fir cone 

 with which the ground was plentifully bestrewn by birds or squirrels, 

 and amongst which they were taken. — Mr. L. Doncaster, the specimens 

 of Angerona prunaria, L., reared by him in the course of his breeding 

 experiments upon the species, the results of which he explained. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a series of the magnificent butterflies 

 belonging to the Morphina?, genus Tenaris, from New Guinea. — Mr. 

 C. J. Wainwright, Lepidoptera taken by Mr. W. H. Hardaleer, in- 

 cluding Noctua castanea (neglecta) from Sutton, Hadena trifolii 

 (chenopodii) from Handsworth, &c. — Mr. G. H. Kenrick remarked that 

 the castanea were neither of the Southern grey form nor the Northern 

 reddish form, but of an intermediate brownish colour, and that he had 

 taken similar specimens at Wyre Forest. — Colbran J. Wainwright, 

 Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



A Natural History of the British Alucitides : a Text-Book for Students 



and Collectors. By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Vol. i. [vol. v. Nat. 



Hist. Brit. Lep.] , pp. i.-xiii, 1-558. London : Elliot Stock. 



Berlin : Friedlander & Sohn. 1906. 



To anyone who has hitherto regarded the "Plumes" as a number 



of closely-allied species, differing principally among themselves in 



colour and markings, vol. v. of Mr. Tutt's 'British Lepidoptera' 



will come as nothing less than a revolution with all its horrors. To 



the earnest student, however, who, though unacquainted with all the 



minutiae of the structure and of the life-histories of the different 



species, has yet become cognisant of the really wide separation which 



