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entomology; the question is, whose business is it to attempta settlement? I ven- 
ture to suggest that the Entomological Society* should devote itself to the work, 
and that a list should be published under its sanction, the names in which should 
be exclusively used by the members, and in all the Society’s publications : I do not 
see how it can be done otherwise. Surely the science has advanced to a stage 
which would allow of this being done. At present, we are at the mercy of indivi- 
duals, and one name succeeds another without the slightest probability of any be- 
coming permanent. Doubtless there are many difficulties in the way ; if Mr. Lewis’ 
recommendation that all names but those now in use be ignored, be followed out, 
the question will arise, which of the two or three names now in use for the same 
species is to be retained ? 
Another point for consideration is the arrangement of the genera and families. 
Is Donbleday’s or Stainton’s to be followed, or neither? Which is the most natural 
place for the Pseudo-Bombyces or Cuspidates? Are they natural connecting links 
between Geometre and Noctue? If not, why are they placed between them ?+ 
I, for one, hope the subject will be thoroughly ventilated, and that the result 
will be a list published by the Entomological Society.—Hy. Uttyexrt, Folkestone, 
June 10th, 1871, 
EntomonocicaL Socirty or Lonpon, 1st Muay, 1871.—Proressor WEstwoop, 
M.A., F.L.S., Vice-president, in the Chair. 
Mr. Higgins exhibited collections of insects from Borneo and Natu. Among the 
latter were bred specimens of some of the larger Bombyces, and coloured representa- 
tions of their larve, obtained by a process which was termed chromo-photography. 
Mr. Meek exhibited the example of Nyssia lapponaria noticed in our two last 
Numbers. 
The Rev. R. P. Murray exhibited a collection of insects recently formed by him 
in Switzerland. 
Mr. Bicknell exhibited (for Mr. Cowan) an extraordinary example of Gonop- 
terya rhamni, captured at Beckenham, in March. This individual was a ¢, having 
the costal margin of each anterior wing, and of the right posterior wing, broadly 
but unequally suffused with crimson. 
It having been suggested that the insect might possibly have been killed by 
cyanide of potassium, and had thus changed its colour, Mr. Cowan said he had killed 
it by means of chloroform, and moreover it was in the same condition when caught. 
Mr. McLachlan thought the wings had probably been in contact with some chemical 
substance during hybernation. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited coloured drawings of the mines of Wicro-Lepidoptera in 
leaves, sent from New Granada by Baron Von Nolcken. 
Mr. Champion exhibited the British example of Scydmenus rufus noticed in 
the Ent. M. Mag. for May last. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited the tusk of an Indian elephant, lent tohim by Dr.Sclater. 
The root portion of this tusk was much eroded and blackened, and on the decayed 
portion were multitudes of large eggs, arranged side by side in rows. Dr. Sclater 
desired information as to the insect or other animal that produced the eggs, but 
no member present was able to afford any information. It was suggested that the 
creature probably only took advantage of a diseased condition, and fed upon the 
morbid secretions, and did not in reality produce the decay. The occurrence was 
said to be not uncommon in India, and always with the female elephant. 
* See the recent notices on our wrapper of the Catalogue of British Neuroptera, ‘‘ part of a 
proposed General Catalogue of the Insects of the British Isles ;” published by the Entomological 
Society of London.— Eps. 
+ Mr. Lewis has entered fully into this matter in a paper that will shortly be published by 
tha BWrntnmoaloocirzal Naniatu —Bng, 
