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favoured few who get to its haunts, and Stauropus fagi has 

 been found in unusual numbers. But it is possibly amongst 

 the Noctuids that the greatest rarities have occurred. Nona- 

 gvia concolor is reported by Mr. Mera, one of our members. 

 This is the rarest of this genus. N. canncB has been captured 

 and bred from pupae found in stems of Typha latifolia and 

 T. angustifolia, in the Norfolk Broads, in some numbers. A 

 few Leiicania albipuncta have occurred on the Kentish coast. 

 Mr. Tutt was fortunate enough to box two fine examples of 

 the rare Hadena satura, at Wicken, whilst several species of 

 good Agrotes have been more common than for many years 

 past. Plusia moneta has been reported from Guildford, 

 Surrey, by Mr. H. C. Lang. Many good Geometrae have 

 rewarded our collectors. Cidavia reticulata is still a little 

 mine of wealth to those who reside in its locality ; and 

 Mr. Gardner, of Hartlepool, has been fortunate enough to 

 find Botys lupulinalis. Let us hope he may follow it up and 

 breed it, as it is one of our rarest species, few of us possessing 

 even a type. Cranibus myellus has occurred again in Perth- 

 shire and Aberdeenshire ; whilst Retinea duplana has been 

 unearthed in the North of Scotland, — not the small dark 

 form of R. turionana that has at times done duty for the 

 true duplana in our collections. 



This is but a cursory glance at the year's doings ; but I feel 

 that my time and your patience are exhausted, I can only 

 add, that a proof of the marked increase in the number of 

 votaries to scientific Natural History, is to be seen in the 

 large amount of Biological Literature that now finds a ready 

 sale. An exhaustive work on Coleoptera, by Canon Fowler, 

 MA., F.L.S. The Hemiptera-Heteroptera, by Edward 

 Saunders, F.L.S., which has just commenced, and gives ex- 

 cellent promise of being a most valuable treatise. The 

 Lepidoptera of the British Islands, by C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., 

 has every guarantee of being the best work we have ever had 

 on this subject. Many of us, the older lepidopterists, could 

 only wish that Mr. Barrett was to begin at the Pyralidae and 

 Tortrices instead of the Diurni. 



It now only remains for me to thank you most heartily 



