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In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for December, Mr. D. Sharp describes a 
species of Coleoptera, Philhydrus ytenensis, as new to science. He 
has differentiated it from P. fuscipennis and P. frontalis, basing his 
decision on some 200 specimens obtained in the New Forest. 
One of the plates in the December number of the Can. Ent. gives 
us portraits of many active entomologists in the Dominion who were 
taking part in the Annual gathering. Another is a portrait of M. 
Jean Fabre, seated at his table. In the same number is an account of 
“Kirby and Spence’s”” Introduction to Entomology, of which the first 
_ volume was published in 1815. Some half a dozen years ago we 
picked up the four volumes of this work, quite clean and perfect, two 
being first editions and uncut, for the astonishing price of one penny 
each. Some of the plates were slightly ‘“foxed” and the cardboard 
covers broken, otherwise they were equal to new. 
The following is a list of Officers and Council of the Lancashire 
and Cheshire Entomological Society :—President, J. Cotton, M.R.C.S. 
Vice- Presidents, R. Newstead, M.Sc., F.R.S., Leonard West, R. Adkin, 
F.E.S. Hon. Treasurer, J. Cotton. Hon. Librarian, ¥. N. Pierce, 
F.E.S. Hon. Secretary, Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S. Council, Wm. 
Webster, R. S. Bagnall, F.L.8., F.E.S., Chas. Fred. Burne, J. W. 
Hillis, M.B., F.E.S., A. W. Hughes, J. Collins, R. Wilding, P. F. 
Finne, M.A., T. P. Doudney, EK. A. Cockayne, M.A., M.D., F.H.S. 
In the nt. Mo. May. for November, Mr. J. H. Durrant describes a 
species new to science, a Pyrale, Myelois neophanes, from specimens in 
the Bankes Collection taken in Dorsetshire and Surrey. It has hitherto 
been confused with Salebria fusca (carbonariella), which it much 
resembles. He also adds another species new to science, Myelois phoe- 
nicis, bred in this country from Algerian dates. It is nearly related to 
impunctella. 
There seems to be a growing desire just now for a kind of research 
which has been aptly termed “archeological research.’’ Dr. Gordon 
Hewitt, in the December number of the Can. Fnt., quotes freely from 
a curious old work entitled ‘« New Improvements of Planting and Gar- 
dening, both philosophical and practical,’ by Richard Bradley, F.R.S., 
published in 1724. Theinterest is that a considerable number of pages 
in this work are devoted to a consideration of the relation of insects to 
disease. 
SOcCIKTIES. 
Tur EnromontocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
October 20th, 1915.—Mr. Charles Ernest Stott, Woodcroft, Egling- 
ton Road, Chingford, Essex, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild exhibited some examples of 
Zygaena (Anthrocera) bred from cocoons found in a marsh near Cam- 
berley. The interest attaching to the specimens was the fact that, 
though found in a marshy situation, they apparently resembled in all 
respects the dry, chalk-down, form of 7. trifolit. 
Mr. H. J. Turner expressed the belief that the specimens were 
ordinary A. trifolii and not var. palustris ; other Fellows concurred, 
and several instances were mentioned of ordinary trifolii being found 
in damp localities. : 
Dr. G. D. H. Careenter on THE LIFE-HISTORY OF PapiILIO HESPERUS, 
WESTW., AND THE RESEMBLANCE OF ITS LARVA TO THAT OF P. nosiuis, Roe. 
