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(3) Notes on a Collection of Butterflies, sent from KH. Africa by Dr. 
Lamborn, by Dr. Eltringham, Prof. Dixey, and Prof. Poulton. (4) 
Further Notes on Recapitulatory Attitudes in Lepidoptera, by Dr. 
T. A. Chapman, F.R.S., the results of many observations ‘‘on the 
methods followed by some Lepidoptera in passing from the attitude of 
drying their wings after their expansion to their ordinary attitude of 
rest.” He points out that there are ‘‘certain positions that are 
actually, or in some degree recall, the ordinary resting attitude that 
is not theirs but that of the group to which they belong.” (5) A Pre- 
liminary Catalogue of the British Cecidomyidae (Dip.), By R. 8. Bag- 
nall, F.L.S., and J. W. H. Harrison, D.Sc. This paper deals 
especially with the Gall-midges of the North of England, and extends 
over some 80 pages. The record of the ordinary meetings contains 
among other items (1) A series of Observations on Fossors and their 
Prey from S.H. Brazil and from H. Africa, communicated by 
Prof. Poulton, (2) Larve of species of Sawfly, with two plates, by 
Rev. T. D. Morice. (8) The Nuptial Fight of Butterflies, by Dr. 
T. A. Dixey. (4) A communication from Capt. G. H. D. Carpenter 
on a synaposematic series of 272 Lycid Beetles of 9 species taken on 
one plant in late German EH. Africa. (5) The ‘false head” in 
Butterflies, by Prof. Poulton. (6) The Pupation of Dytiscus maryinalis, 
with three plates, by Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc. (7) Salt (Chloride of 
Sodium) probably sought by the Hesperiidae, by Prof. Poulton and 
others. (8) A study of Papilio polytes race romulus from the extreme 
South of India and from Singapore, by Prof. Poulton. (9) Mendelian 
Heredity in Relation to Selection, recent papers produced in America. 
(10) Pupation of Geotrupes typhoeus, with three plates, by Mr. Hugh 
Main, B.Se. (11) Mimicry in Butterflies of New Guinea, by Dr. F. A. 
Dixey. (12) A discussion on the method adopted by Sir George 
Hampson of taking the first species mentioned by the author of a 
genus as the type, with especial reference to the case of the name 
Tinea. 
The New York Agricultural Experimental Station is apparently as 
active in its propaganda as in its economic research work, for we are 
continually receiving booklets issued by the ‘“‘ New York Department 
of Agriculture, Geneva, N.Y.” We can only hope that our ‘“ Depart- 
ment of Agriculture” are both carrying on investigations and as active 
in propaganda as are our transatlantic friends, but we get no know- 
ledge of it, except what can be casually picked up in odd places. 
In the Bull. Soc. ent. Hr. for May the Abbé J. de Joannis dis- 
cusses the observation of Lt.-Colonel Dattin on the case of the 
hibernation en masse of Lithocolletis populifoliella near Troyes. In 
mid-March and early April large numbers of the imagines appeared 
in the houses, ete., but no mass of leaves of the poplar could be found 
in the neighbourhood from which they could have emerged. It had 
been noted that in the previous October imagines were quite numerous 
in the locality. 
The Can. Ent. for June contains 1, An Obituary of Wm. H. 
Harrington, one of the oldest members of the Ent. Soc. of Canada, 
and a contributor to the pages of the magazine since its commence- * 
ment. 2, The article on Popular and Practical Entomology deals this 
month with details of the ‘“ Experiments with Cutworm Baits.” Bran 
has been used largely with poison bait and has been very effective. In 
