210 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
grant from the Ministry of Health, a comprehensive circular containing 
an account of the British mosquito Anopheles plumbeus so far as known, 
particularly the further details of its life-history and of its distribution 
in the British Island, which it is desirably should be more thoroughly _ 
investigated and known. There are figures of the structure of the 
species as an aid to its identification and of the peculiar habitat in 
which it breeds. This last is in the rot-holes in the trees, either in 
the trunks themselves or in the water holes often found among the 
exposed roots at the base of large trees such as beech, elm, sycamore. 
Entomologists are earnestly requested to get all the facts they can an@ 
report to the Secretary of the Committee, the Rev. T. W. Oswald- 
Hicks, B.A., “ Lesware,” Linden Road, London, N. 15, who will send 
copies of the circular and any further particulars helpers may require. 
The Entomological Society of London is increasing its number of 
Fellows by leaps and bounds. At a recent meeting no fewer than 
twenty-one were elected. These came from all over the world. In 
fact the prestige of the Society is now so great that all who wish to 
keep apace with what advance is being made in entomological science 
cannot afford to stand aloof. 
Coupled with the rapid increase in its membership is the fact that 
at last the Society has obtained a permanent home. A large freehold 
residence near the §. Kensington Museum (Nat. Hist.) has been 
purchased and in due course the Society will enter into these new 
premises. An initial amount of £10,000 was asked for to be made up 
by donations and loans, and a greater part of this has already come in, 
sufficient, we understand, to more than pay the purchase price. 
However, a very considerable outlay will be needed before the Society 
can hold its meetings there, and to defray the expenses of the necessary 
_ fitments it is hoped that every Fellow will forward his contribution at 
the earliest possible. 
In their new quarters the Society will have ample room to make 
the Library much more usable than it is at present with the congested 
book-cases at Chandos St. Since the Library is a very extensive one 
it is necessary that it should be disposed in such a way as to render it 
available for research with the least amount of trouble. This is all 
the more necessary as a portion of the premises, not at present required 
for the purposes of the Entomological Society, will be occupied by the 
recently formed Imperial Bureau of Kconomic Hntomology, whose 
staff will thus have a very considerable amount of literature close at 
hand for any urgent matters of research. 
We hear that the Society is the only Entomological body in the 
world with its own freehold premises. This has long been a desire of 
some of the older Fellows to whom must be a great gratification to see 
their wishes fulfilled. The thanks of all the Fellows are due to the 
persistent efforts of the present Council and particularly to its Hon. 
Treasurer, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, whose marshalling of the finances of 
the Society has been so successful as to bring about the realisation of 
the aim, which a few years ago was thought to be quite impossible. 
In the Canadian Entomologist for August is an article on a matter 
which is always a subject of divergent views, entitled ‘‘ Remarks on the 
Basic Plan of the Terminal Abdominal Structures of the Males of 
Winged Insects,” and illustrated by a series of explanatory diagrams. . 
The Rev. Mens. Namur., July to September, contains some impor- 
