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&c., Vice-President; Mr. E. Step, Hon. Treasurer; Mr. W. West, Hon. 

 Curator; Mr. D. J. Rice, Hon. Librarian ; Mr. H. W. Barker and Mr. D. 

 J. Rice, Hon. Secretaries; Messrs. R. Adkin, F.E.S., T. R. Billups, 

 F.E.S., C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., J. T. Carrington, F.L.S., C. Fenn, F.E.S., 

 R. South, F.E.S., and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Council. The meeting closed 

 with votes of thanks to the various officers. 



February ]2th, 1891. — W. H. Tugwell, President, in the chair. 

 Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Aplecta occulta, L., bred during November and 

 December last from ova received from Forres in the previous August. The 

 specimens were all of a light form, the pink shade in the primaries being 

 strongly produced in many of them. Mr. Tugwell said there was a darker 

 shade of colour in the specimens shown than those obtained in the south. 

 Mr. Tugwell exhibited Melanippe hastata, L., from Sussex and the Shet- 

 lands, to show the desirability of obtaining insects from various localities. 

 Mr. Nussey, bred specimens of Thecla pruni, L., and called attention to a 

 large specimen of the female which had emerged from the pupa without 

 antennse. Mr. W. H. McLachlan, Polii cJd, L., dark forms of Noctua 

 xanthographa, Fb., Agrotis lucernea, L., and Epunda nigra, Haw., 

 all taken at Aberdeen. Mr. Farrant, a richly coloured specimen of 

 SmerintJius tilia, L., and an example of Epinephele hyperanthes, L., 

 approaching var. arete, Miill. Mr. Auld, a coloured drawing of a pale 

 variety of Abraxas grossulariata, L. Mr. Billups, Tragus novce-cale- 

 doniccB, Moutrouze, Enicodes fichtelii, Schr., and Cicindelidae, Caledonicd 

 lanegera, Chan., and stated that the three species seemed to be exclusively 

 confined to New Caledonia; also two species of Hemiptera from the same 

 locality, Tectocorix banksii, Don., and Myctis symhoiica, Don.; and re- 

 marked that, unlike the Coleoptera, these two species had a very wide 

 range, the former having been taken in Java, Australia, Timor, the Celebes, 

 and Tonga, while the latter, in addition to the above-mentioned places, had 

 also been met with in the New Hebrides and Ceram ; also a number of 

 miniature Mollusca obtained from drift collected by Mr. C. G. Barrett on 

 the Pembrokeshire coast, and read note relative thereto. — H. W. Barker, 

 Hon. Sec. 



REVIEWS. 



The Lepidoptera of Suffolk. Compiled by E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S. 



London: W. Wesley & Son. Colchester : W. H. Harwood, 1890. 



This very useful annotated local list of Lepidoptera will be welcomed by 



entomologists generally, but especially perhaps by those who are interested 



in the distribution of Lepidoptera in this country. 



The Honey Bee: its Natural History, Anatomy, and Physiology. By 

 T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., &c. London : Houlston & Sons. Fcp. 8vo. 

 200 pp. 1890. 

 There are many, excellent works on the Honey Bee, but it has been 

 reserved for the author of the present little book to produce a work which 

 will probably prove as indispensable to the student as it certainly will be 

 useful to everyone who is interested in Hive Bees. Although treated in a 

 concise manner, all phases of the subject are thoroughly dealt with. Nu- 

 merous well-executed illustrations, and a list of 172 works consulted and 

 referred to in the text, add considerably to the value of the book. 



