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Lepidoptera we have had announcements of two interesting 

 species — SyricJitJms alveus and Hercyna phrygialis — captured 

 many years ago, but only recently recognised ; and also the 

 results of long and careful study by Dr. J. H. Wood of a 

 small and very difficult group in the genus Coleophora, whereby 

 four species — Coleophora alticolella, C. glaucicolella, C. sylva- 

 ticella, and C. agrammella, have been added to our list. In 

 consequence of the researches of Mr. R. H. Me ide and 

 others, in recent years, the results of which have now been 

 published, a large number of species of Diptera have been 

 shown to be British, which were previously unrecorded ; 

 Hemiptera too have been fairly repres^-nted, and a very few 

 novelties have been met with in Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, 

 and Neuroptera ; but particulars are doubtless familiar to ycu 

 in the Magazines, and I will not take up your time by an 

 enumeration. 



An advance in another direction, by one of our more 

 experienced members, should certainly not be passed over 

 unnoticed. Mr. Elisha has introduced to us a novel method 

 of laying out cabinet drawers, whereby, not only is the series 

 of the perfect insect in each case exhibited with, where 

 possible, the habitation of the larva, but, in addition, a label, 

 giving with exquisite neatness and brevity, a history of the 

 species as far as known. 



A discovery made outside our Society is, I think, so im- 

 portant that it should not be passed over in silence. I refer 

 to that by Dr. J. H. Wood, of the habit of the larva of 

 Brachyania woodiana, which he has found to feed on — or 

 rather in — mistletoe, entering the leaves and hollowing them 

 completely out, in a manner very unusual in a Tortrix. 



A subject which must not be ignored in an address of this 

 nature, yet which cannot be approached without sorrowful 

 feelings, is that of the losses which the Society has sustained 

 by death. No greater bereavement has ever fallen upon 

 students of Entomology, since the subject has been studied 

 in this country, than has befallen us in the death of Mr. 

 H. T. Stainton. For thirty years past we have acknowledged 

 him as our leader in the study of Lepidoptera — more especi- 

 ally in that of the large and difficult group of the Tineina. 

 His Manual of " British Butterflies and Moths " has been the 

 chosen companion of every one who desired to have an intimate 

 knowledge of British Lepidoptera. His "Natural History 

 of the Tineina" and the "Tineina" volume of the " Insecta 

 Britannica " are standard works of high excellence. The 

 " Intelligencer," which he conducted, was the organ of young 



