1894.] 215 



require two years to complete their transformations, but we must be pardoned for 

 being a little sceptical as to rigid biennial regularity. The three species of Ckionobas 

 are (1) suhhyalina, Curtis, Edw. (= Beanii, Elwes), the remarks on which are 

 mainly controversial as regards Mr. Elwes' application of Curtis' specific name 5 

 (2) Noma, Thunbg., a European species which has occurred in Alaska ; and (3) 

 semidea. Say, the details of which occupy a plate with about 30 figures, and the text 

 10 pages, full of most valuable information on metamorphoses, habits, and local 

 variations, mainly from Mr. Scudder's observations. 



Absthact op Pboceedings of the South London Entomological and 

 Nattteal History Society for 1892 and 1893. 8vo, pp. 160. Published by 

 the Society. London (Hibernia Chambers), 1894. 



We congratulate the Society on the appearance of the present biennial Eeport, 

 and on the attainment of its majority in 1893. The present volume contains two 

 Presidential Addresses, by Mr. Barrett and the late Mr. Jenner Weir respectively, 

 extended reports of the proceedings at the meetings, and abstracts of special papers 

 read thereat, and last, but not least, a capital Index. A vast amount of information 

 is scattered throughout its pages, and it may, we think, become a question with the 

 executive of the Society whether the Index might not be made yet more complete 

 in future by becoming more analytical, though a very laudable attempt has already 

 been made in this direction. The number of members is not quite so large as it 

 was a few years ago, but the List is a strong one, and includes many names well 

 known outside " South London." The financial position is very strong, those who 

 have ruled this department having evidently had an eye to the future. The Society 

 is also to be felicitated on the absence of personalities in. its published Reports : 

 possibly the quotation on our own cover has not been lost sight of. 



COLEOTTEKI ItALIANI : del DOTTEB ACHILLE G-EIFFINI. 12mo, pp. 332, 

 with 215 illustrations. Milano : Ulrico Hoepli. 1894. 



This is the first of a series of popular manuals on Entomology, proposed to be 

 issued by the well-known scientific publisher, U. Hoepli. It is based on the common 

 custom of taking the best known and most conspicuous genera and species in each 

 Family and briefly describing them and their habits ; the illustrations are mostly up 

 to the average of such works. This should prove useful to English tourist entomo- 

 logists who can read Italian. Pajjer and type are good, and it is strongly bound, an 

 item too often neglected in continental works. 



oiiiiitii. 



TuE South London Entomological and Natural Histohy Society: 

 July 2Gth, 1894. — E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a bred scries of Melitcea Cinxia, L., set to show the 

 variation ou the under-side. Mr. Hall, a very variable series of Mclanippe hastuta, 



