54 Notes and Comments. 



Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.' The present instalment deals 

 with over loo species, principally marine, and in addition to 

 giving full details of their occurrence and distribution, he also 

 provides an interesting account of previous papers on the same 

 subject. The reprint occupies 45 pages, and is a distinct 

 contribution to the Zoology of the district with which Mr. 

 Bolam is so familiar. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



At a recent meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society, Mr. W. A. Tyerman showed a collection 

 of moths which were taken in the neighbourhood of warehouses 

 in Liverpool. Four species of the genus Ephestia were 

 represented, viz., E. elutella, E. passulella, E. ficella and 

 E. kuhnieUa, also Plodia interpunctella, MelissoUaptes 

 cephalonica and Sitotroga cerealella, all having been more abun- 

 dant than usual this year. The Rev. F. M. B. Carr had the 

 results of his collecting in Delamere Forest and district during 

 the past summer ; the exhibit included a specimen of Plusia 

 moneta bred from a larva found at Tarporley, this being the 

 second record for Cheshire, the other by Mr. R. Tait being from 

 Ashton-on-Mersey. Mr. Carr also showed Plusia iota, 

 P. pulchrina and P. festuccB, a nice series of each from his garden 

 at Alvanley. Dr. John Cotton exhibited a specimen of Sphinx 

 convolvuli taken in a back yard at St. Helens in September. 



THE SOUTH EASTERN NATURALIST. 



The Editor of the South Eastern Naturahst, Mr. E. A. 

 Martin, Assistant Commander, Metropolitan Special Constab- 

 ulary, is certainly to be congratulated on being able to produce 

 a volume of nearly 200 pages, containing full reports of the 

 twenty-second Annual Congress held in London in June last, 

 as well as the various addresses, etc., then delivered, and on 

 issuing it before the close of the same year. The Conference 

 was referred to in The Naturalist at the time, but the present 

 publication is a permanent record of the valuable reports and 

 papers then submitted. 



THE LIBRARY. 



Notwithstanding the difficulties of publication there seems 

 to have been no curtailment of the reports, though we think 

 this might profitably have been done in the way of the list of 

 gifts to the Library. For example, the publications of the 

 Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society, etc., could 

 have been perfectly well described in half-a-dozen Imes, instead 

 of reprinting the exact title of each individual report extending 

 between 1855 to date. This occupies four pages, three or 

 four lines being usually given in repeating the titles of the 

 reports, the only difference being in the date, etc. The same 

 with the Essex Field Club, to reprint the title, sub-title, numbers 



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