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larvae, while still another took up the subject of the silk-industry. 

 The department has continued its admirable custom of preparing and 

 issuing drawings (black and white), showing life-histories more or less 

 detailed. Some 70 were thus prepared during the year. Other 

 portions of the work, such as identification of pests, the giving of 

 advice, the programme for the present season, and the list of recent 

 publications, are also dealt with. The Report is a capital account of 

 the work which is being carried on under Mr. Fletcher's skilled and 

 ■experienced guidance. 



At the first meeting of the year of the Entomological Society of 

 France, M. E. Moreau took the chair as President, in place of 

 Dr. P. Marshal, who in retiring, referred to the satisfactory condition 

 of the Society, both from a financial as well as a numerical point 

 of view. 



In the Bull. Soc. Ent., France, for January, are some interesting 

 notes by M. L. Demaison, on the genus ChrijsopJianus (sem^. lat.). (1) 

 The capture of a C. dupar v. rutilus of the size of Paimicia phlaeas, near 

 Lusigny. (2) Notes on the very restricted distribution of rutilus in 

 France. (3) The distribution of C. hippotho'e in France. (4) The 

 distribution of C'. vivf/aureae in France, always confined to mountainous 

 area. (5) A discussion of the occurrence of C. thernaiiwn in Belgium, 

 and (6) A giant race of R. phlaeas and of other Lepidoptera, near 

 Soulac (Gironde). 



In the Entoujologht for February H. Rowland-Brown attacks the 

 problem of the two (?) Erebia species, FJ. ligea and E. euryale — the 

 relationship of the form adute. After summarising Dr. Reverdin's 

 a,rticle in the Bidl. Soc. lep. Gen., he proposes the name borealu for the 

 hitherto-called adyte, common in Scandinavian and Arctic areas. Of 

 this last form, the aberration in which there is no trace of the white 

 band on the underside, he names obsoleta. 



In the E7it. Mo. Mag. for March, Jas. Edwards describes two 

 species of Cicadina (Hom.) as new to science. 1. Macropsis decoratus, 

 from Bath, is nearly related to M. nassatus. 2. M. populi, from Gor- 

 ing, Oxfordshire, is closely allied to M. fuscinervis. He adds a synopsis 

 of the British species of the genus Macropsis. Dr. Chapman gives 

 detailed notes on two sawflies, Pteronus pini and P. sertifer, illustrat- 

 ing his remarks with three plates. The Rev. P. D. Morice announces 

 a species of sawfly new to science in AUantiis perkinsi, which he has 

 separated from A. arcuati.s, and which seems generally distributed in 

 Devon, Surrey, Lancashire, etc. G. E. Bryant commences an account 

 of Entomology in Sarawak, Borneo. 



H. D. Hooker gives details, in the Ent. Ne^vs for March, of the life- 

 history of the Noctuid Epipsilia iiionochroviata, the larvse of which feed 

 upon the leaves of Drosera rotimdifolia, and gives a plate showing 

 larvae in situ, a pupa, and an imago. 



In the March number of the Bee. Mens, of Namur, there is the 

 commencement of a local list of the Lepidoptera of the neighbour- 

 hood of Namur, by M. F. Derenne, who has the assistance of the 

 veteran worker M. J. L.- J. Lambillion. It will be very useful to many, 

 as it will doubtless register the numerous aberrations and races 

 observed by the enthusiasts of the virile little society of Namur. We 

 rather wish, however, that the list had included references to the 

 original descriptions which had been made since the appearance of M. 



