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sand in the neighbourhood of Folkestone," by H. C. Sorby, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. ; " On instincts which in some insects produce results corre- 

 sponding with the moral sense in man," by F. Merrifield, F.E.S. ; 

 " The colour of pup» in relation to their surroundings," by F. 

 Merrifield, F.E.S. ; " Dust : its living and dead constituents," 

 by H. Gabbett, M.D. ; " Science at the end of the eighteenth 

 century," by A. W. Brackett ; "The skin of liquids," by C. H. 

 Draper, D.Sc, B.A. ; " The Raised Beaches of Brighton and their 

 microscopical contents," by F. Chapman, A.L.S., F.R.M.S. ; " The 

 protection of wild birds in the south-eastern counties," by J. H. 

 Allchin. The important paper contained in the volume, however, is the 

 Presidential Address by Professor G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., ,&c., 

 the Secretary of the Linnean Society. Well thought-out papers on 

 the general and broad principles underlying the study of natural 

 history, of the weight, accuracy, and undoubted ability exhibited in this, 

 are rarely met with in the lesser publications, and every entomologist 

 who is a naturalist in the wider sense should certainly read it. We 

 recommend this publication particularly to our wealthy provincial 

 naturalists as being entirely worthy of their generous support. 



Mr. King records (Ent. Mo. Maf/., August) the capture of -S'owmtof /(- 

 lora metalUca in some numbers at Loch-en-Ang and other lochs in 

 Strathglass. It first appeared on June 16th (1899), but was much 

 more abundant in July and August. 



Lord Walsingham gives {Ent. Mo. Ma//., August) a review of the 

 Tineid genus Meessia. He determines the Dorset species (that has 

 been for some time standing in British collections) as not being 

 identical with the Meessia vincuUila, H.-Sch., of the continent, and names 

 the British species Meessia richardsoni. At the same time, he asserts 

 that the true Meessia vinculella, H.-Sch., does occur in Britain, there 

 being a good specimen in the collection of Mr. Bankes, which was also 

 taken in Dorsetshire. 



Mr. Eaton adds (Ent. Mo. Mag., August) the little black Trichop- 

 teron, Beraea articularis, Pict., to the British list, from specimens 

 captured on Haven Cliff, near the mouth of the Axe, on a wet grass 

 slope moistened by a dribbling spring. Wallengren placed the species 

 in the genus Ernodcs created for it, and McLachlan thinks that the 

 genus should stand. 



We are pleased to inform our readers that Lord Walsingham has 

 acquired the Micro-Lepidoptera of the late Dr. 0. Hofmann, so that 

 the collections of Frey, Stainton, Zeller, Hofmann, &c., are all noAv 

 available for scientific entomological students. As these will ultimately 

 go to the national collection and become public property and so be 

 available for future reference so long as the collections exist, entom- 

 ologists generally owe Lord Walsingham a deep debt of gratitude for 

 his action. 



Mr. Saunders notes {Ent. Mo. Maij.) the capture by himself and j\Ir. 

 MoriceofA''oH?rtr/rtrtfr«ffl(6)-^r/eor;;/.s)onx\ugust 4th and 13th at West Clan- 

 don, and near Chobham, on Scabiosa arvensis and S. succisa. This species 

 was erroneously sunk by F. Smith as a variety otN.rjennanica { = ferru- 

 yinata), and so has to be reinstated in the British list. The same 

 entomologist adds Pompilus sangninolcntus to the British list, a 2 of 

 this species having been taken by Dr. Sharp between Holiday Hill and 

 Emery Down, in the New Forest, on July 18th last. 



