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tant articles, one on the variation shown in Polyploca ridens and with 
its various named forms, another discussing at length the adrasta 
forms of Pararge maera, and another on the genus Acronicta dealing 
with the three species most closely resembling each other 4? psi, A. 
cuspis and A. tridens. ; 
The Report and Trans. of the Cardiff Nat. Socy. for 1918 has 
. recently come to hand. It contains the usual annual local records 
and the reports of the doings of the various sections, together with 
three original papers read during the year, of which one is entomo- 
logical. ‘‘The Diptera of Glamorgan,” by Colonel J. W. Yerbury, 
R.A., F.Z.8., F.H.S., is a most important memoir of 32 pages, mainly 
the results of the author’s personal efforts, to which a few records 
have been added by Mr. H. W. Andrews. Dates and localities are 
given and in many cases short notes are added. About 650 species are 
included. 
We have received a long and interesting communication from 
Major P. P. Graves, F.1.8., giving an account of his recent collecting 
in the Hastern area with many interesting remarks on Smyrna and 
Brussa. Dr. Verity is also sending an article dealing with the common 
Zygaenid Z. filipendulae and its various forms and local races. 
Signor Orazio Querci has promised to give us a note on the collecting 
done by his wife and daughter during the past season in Calabria and 
at Garfagnana. In the December number we hope to give the final 
portion of the supplement which was commenced many months ago 
on Hubner’s Verzeichniss. 
Can anyone help our colleague the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows with 
Psychides ? At present he is particularly in want of specimens of 
Luffia lapidella. We were recently looking over his collection of 
imagines, cases and microscopical mounts and find that there are still 
a number of desiderata. It may be mentioned that the whole of the 
specimens will eventually be placed in the cabinets of the British 
Museum. Will readers on the continent please note. 
The Transactions of the London Natwral History Society (late City 
and North London) for 1919 has recently been published. It is a 
modest volume, as all annuals have to be now, nevertheless it is a 
useful record of the year’s exhibits, reports of the various sections, 
abstracts of papers read, and several papers are printed in full. One of 
the latter was an extremely interesting summary of what is known on 
the *“* Wing Colour in Butterflies and Moths.” This was read as an 
Annual Address by the President, Dr. Cockayne, F.E.S. Another was 
“Parallelism in Variation in Butterflies,” by H. B. Williams, LL.B., 
F.E.S. Among the abstracts of papers are paragraphs dealing with 
“The Oak and its Insects,” by Messrs. Bishop, Bowman, and Hall. 
There are several obituaries. 
SocikTiIisEs. 
Tue Entromontocicat Society or Lonpon. 
April Tth, 1920.—Deatu or a Frttow.—The death was announced 
of the Rev. Stephen Henry Gorham, the oldest Fellow of the Society, 
who joined it as{far back as 1855. 
Euection or Fertows.—Mr. C. F. C. Beeson, Indian Forest Service, 
