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THE FOUETH INTEENATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZOOLOG-Y. 



The Meeting of this Congress was held at Cambridge from 

 August 23rd to 27th, and, thanks to the exertions of the Executive 

 Committee and the magnificent weather, was a great success. 



Amongst British entomologists we noticed the following : — Adkin, 

 Bateson, Beare, Bouskell, Burr, O. P. Cambridge, Gr. H. Carpenter, 

 Champion, Chapman, Crowley, Dixey, Donisthorpe, Durrant, W. H. 

 B. Fletcher, Gorham, Jenkinson, Jordan, Kane, Kirby, Latter, Sir 

 John Lubbock, McLachlau, Merrifield, Meyrick, Nevinson, Newstead, 

 E. C. L. Perkins, Eichardson, C. Eothschild, W. Eothschild, Sharp, 

 Trimen, Yerrall, Vice, J. J. Walker, Lord Walsingham, and "Wilson. 

 This is a respectable number, and there were probably others with 

 whom we did not come in contact personally. 



Of foreign and colonial entomologists we met — Prof. E. Blanchard 

 (Paris), Prof. Bouvier (Paris), Caracciolo (Trinidad), Dollfus (Paris), 

 Fauvel (Caen), Gadeau de Kerville (Eouen), Prof. Gilson (Louvain), 

 Baron de Guerne (Paris), Dr. Horvath (Budapest), Janet (Paris), 

 Piepers (The Hague), Krapelin (Hamburg), Prof. Lameere (Brussels), 

 Olivier (Moulins), and Simon (Paris). Many of these visited England 

 for the first time, and took advantage of the occasion to consult the 

 British Museum and other large public and private collections. All 

 expressed themselves much gratified at the reception accorded them. 



The entomological papers read were not numerous. The dis- 

 cussion on the "burning question" of nomenclature was postponed, 

 to the gratification of some and the disappointment of others. 



On the afternoon of Saturday, the 27th, there was a reception in 

 the Zoological Gardens, Eegent's Park, and on the same evening the 

 President (Sir John Lubbock) received the Members at the Natural 

 History Museum. On Monday, the 29th, about 150 Members visited 

 the Hon. Walter Eothschild's Museum at Tring, and were hospitably 

 entertained. 



The next Congress will be held in Germany (probably Berlin) in 

 1901.— Eds. 



PLOIABIA BJEEENSPEUNQI, Dohen : AN ADDITION TO THE 

 LIST OF BEITISH REDUVIIDM. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



I possess two specimens of this species, one captured at Esher 

 by myself on August 30th, 1874, and the other taken in the New 

 Forest in June, 1891. Tiio Esher example was beaten from a stack 



