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Soci6t6 Entomologique de Belgique,' vols, i-xli, 1857-97, sold for £6 ; 

 ' HoriB Societatis Bntomologicae Rossicae,' vols, i-xxvii, 1861-93, £11 ; 

 and two incomplete sets of the ' Annales de la Society Entomologique 

 de France,' the one of 35 vols, commencing with vol. iv. of the first 

 series and covering the years 1835-6 and 1843-76, £6 15/-, and the 

 other of 46 vols., 1870-1901, 1903 and 1905, £2. A set of 58 vols, 

 and some parts of the (Stettiner) ' Bntomologische Zeitung,' 1840- 

 1911, realized £6 6/- ; the ' Entomologist,' vols, i.-v., 1840-71 and 

 some mibound parts, £2 15/- ; the 'Zoological Record,' vols, i.-xii., 

 1864-75, £2 10/-, and 'Novitates Zoologicse,' vols, i.-vi. in parts 

 1894-9, £2 7/6. There was a good assortment of works on 

 Coleoptera, among them Lacordaire's ' Genera des Col^opteres,' 12 

 vols, and atlas of plates, 1854-76, 13 vols, in all, brought £3 10/-, 

 and another copy, £5 15/-. Bestimmung's ' Tabellen der Europse- 

 ischen Coleopteren,' heft 1-64 (heft 12 and 23 missing), 1879-1908, 

 £5; Gemminger et Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum synonymicus 

 et systematicus,' 1868-76, 12 vols., £3 5/-; Gravenhorst's ' Coleoptera 

 Microptera,' 1802, with others, £3 12/6; ' Biologia Centrah- 

 Americana,' Insecta, Coleoptera, vol. ii., part 2, £2 17/6, and another 

 copy, £3 ; vol. ih., part 1, £2 17/6, and vol. vii., £2 10/-. The only 

 important work on Diptera, Meigen's ' Systematische Beschreibung 

 der Europjsischen,' Zweifliigeligen Insekten, 7 vols., 1822-51, was 

 knocked down at £3. Two copies of Westwood's ' Arcana Entomo- 

 logica,' 1841-5, 2 vols., brought £2 2/- and £2 4/- respectively, and 

 his ' Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis,' 1874, £3 15/-. Linnaeus's 

 ' Systema Naturae,' ed. xii., 1766-7, 2 vols, in 3, reahzed £1 17/6 ; 

 Eabricius's 'Entomologia Systematica,' 4 vols, and Supplement, 1792 

 -8, £1 1/- ; Rambur's ' Lepidopteres de I'Andalousie,' 1858, £2 ; 

 Boisduval's ' Monographic des Zygenides, 1829, with Staudinger's 

 1871 Catalogue, 8/-; and Gerhard's ' Monographie der Europgeischen 

 Lycaenidse,' 1853, £2 2/-. The ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' a large folio 

 volume of coloured drawings of butterflies and moths and their 

 larvae on seventy plates, brought £6 10/-, and among some of our more 

 familiar books may be mentioned Stephens's ' Illustrations of British 

 Entomology,' 1828-46, 11 vols, and Supplement, which sold for £2 4/-; 

 Wood's ' Index Entomologicus,' 1854, £1 12/6 ; and Kirby's Synony- 

 mic ' Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' 1871, with Supplement 1877, 

 £1 17/6. The sale was well attended, but we noticed very few of 

 our entomological friends in the room, who, had they been present, 

 might have picked up many a useful volume at the cost of a very 

 few shillings from among the three hundred and fifty-five lots that 

 were offered. — R. A. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November 

 15th, 1911.— The Rev. P. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— 

 The Rev. Samuel Proudfoot, 6, Lyme Grove, Altrincham, Cheshire, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Commander Walker exhibited 



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