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he thought probably that many other Coleoptera inhabited the island. He 

 remarked that these specimens showed no signs of depauperation, but were 

 scarcely distinguishable from ordinary English specimens. 



Mr. South exhibited a melanic Aplecta nebulosa from Rotherham, bred 

 with five others of ordinary form, and an albino of the same species from 

 Devonshire ; a very curious dark variety of Plusia gamma ; two dark vars. 

 of Eubolia limitata from Durham ; Dicrorhampha consortana from North 

 Devon. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Harpalus cupreus, Leptusa testacea, and 

 Cathormiocerus maritimus from Sandown, Isle of Wight. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited the following Micro-Lepidoptera ; — CEneana, 

 atricapitana, turlonana, Juliana, derasana, capreana, pomonana, off Sorbus 

 aucuparia; sodaliana, zepliyrana, trigeminana ; also Schiffermulleriella, 

 horridella, alpella, fuscoaurella, therinella, and semidecandrella, on 

 Cerastium tetrandrum. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited three boxes of Coleoptera, collected partly by 

 Mr. Fruhstroffer, containing some rare Cetoniidce, Panssidce, &c. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited Amblytylus delicatus, Perr., a new British 

 bug, taken at Woking. 



Mr. Jacoby mentioned that he had taken the larva of Vanessa cardui 

 on a narrow white-leaved plant in his garden. 



Mr. Enock mentioned that out of a batch of two males aud six females 

 of the Hessian Fly kept together, all six females had laid fertile eggs, so 

 that each male must have impregnated more than one female. 



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The Fauna, of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 

 Mammalia (Part I.). By W. T. Blanford, F.B.S. 8vo, 

 pp. 250. London : Taylor & Francis. 1888. 



So long ago as 1883 the Secretary of State for India in 

 Council, upon the recommendation of the Government of India, 

 gave his sanction to the publication of a series of volumes on 

 the Fauna of British India. Such a work is now seriously 

 needed, for it cannot be said that the publications of Jerdon, 

 Blyth, Hume, Legge, Gunther, and Day, excellent as they are 

 in their way, adequately represent or embody anything like the 

 information which is now available on the subjects upon which 

 they treat. None of them can be called recent publications, and 



