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The Butterflies op North America : by W. H. Edwards. Third Beries, 

 Parts vi and vii. Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York ; and Triibner 

 and Co., London. 1888—1889. 



Part vi contains Papilio Nitra, ~Edw.,Anthocharis lanceolata, Bdv., and Qenutia 

 Butler, with a multitude of figures of the various stages, and Neonympha areolatus, 

 Abb. and Sm., also with a multitude of figures. Part vii is made up of Anthocharis 

 Rosa and Pima, Edw., Erebiafasciata, Butler, and discoidalis, Kby., and Geirocheilus 

 Tritonia, Edw. All these latter are species of which the earlier stages are yet 

 unknown, and some of them are of great rarity. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 February 28th, 1889.— T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Miss K. M. Hinchliff, of N. Devon, Messrs. J. E. Perry, of Birmingham, 

 J. Smith, of Woolwich, W. H. McLachlan, of Clapham, Gr. J. Eandall, of Brixton, 

 H. Moore, of Eotherhithe, and A. Nott, of Clapham, were elected Members. 



Mr. Eobinson exhibited varieties of Agrotis segetum, Schiff ., and A. exclama- 

 tionis, L., from Hunts. Mr. R. Adkin, Anerastia lotella,TIb., from Eorres, Norfolk and 

 Kent; Dioryctrea abietella, Zinc, from Eorres and Kent; Cr ambus dumetellus, 

 Hb., from Eorres ; with C. pratelhcs, L., and C. dumetellus, Hb., and C. ericellus, 

 Hb., for comparison, and called attention to the close resemblance of the Forres 

 dumetellus to the Kentish pratellus in colour and size, but not in markings. Mr. 

 Tutt asked whether the specimens of D. abietella were takenin the neighbourhood 

 of firs, as Mr. Coverdale had taken a specimen at Shoeburyness, and, about three 

 years since, another had been recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. as having been taken 

 at Portland. Mr. Adkin said he thought it difficult to prove that there are no firs 

 in any locality as they were largely used for ornamental gardens. Mr. Manger 

 exhibited Coleoptera from Dargeeling. Mr. T. R. Billups, three rare and local 

 Arachnida : Heliophanus flavipes, C. Koch., Ballus depressus, Walck., Pachygnatha 

 Degeeri, Sund., and forty other species. 



March 14>th, 1889 : J. T. Carrington, Esq., E.L.S., Yice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. A. Home, of Aberdeen, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Adye exhibited specimens of Dasycampa rubiginea, Eb., and varieties of 

 Xanthia Jlavago, Fb., taken in Hampshire. Mr. E. South, a darkly coloured specimen 

 of Zygmna filipendulce, L., and what he thought was a variety of Sadena dentina, 

 Esq. Mr. P. Euss, a number of species taken in the neighbourhood of Sligo, Ireland, 

 including many varieties and local forms, and an interesting series of varieties of 

 Aporophila lutulenta, Bork. Mr. R. Adkin, two dwarfed specimens of Lyccena 

 Corydon, Eb., and other British Lepidoptera. The Secretary read a note from 

 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, on Pyractomena borealis, Randall, and an aberration of 

 Dermestes fasciatus, Lee. Mr. Tugwell read a paper, " Practical hints on breeding 

 Macro-Lepidoptera." — H. W. Barker, Hon. Secretary. 



