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Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Pliiladelphia. Vol. i, No. i, January, 1890. Edited 

 by Eugene M. Aaron. 



Under this title, the American Entomological Society (affiliated to the Academy) 

 propose to issue a Journal of 10 Nos. each year (not less than 160 pp. in all), at a 

 very cheap rate. We have seen the first No., and if continued on and developed 

 from the standpoint taken up, it cannot fail to be useful. We vcisli it all success. 

 The European agents are Triibner & Co., for this country, and Friedliinder & Sohn, 

 for Germany. 



Monograph of the British CicADiE or Tettigiid.e, with more than four 

 hundred coloured drawings : by George Bowdler Buckton, F.R.S., &c., 8vo, 

 Part i, January, 1890. London : Macmillan & Co. 



We prefer to reserve any further notice of this work until its completion in 

 eight quarterly parts. The first part contains 32 pages of letter-press and 12 plates, 

 two of structural details, plain, and ten of figures of perfect insects, enlarged and 

 coloured. The first 16 pages are almost entirely of literary interest, the remainder 

 consists of generic and specific descriptions. But there are no indications of the 

 systematic or structural characters of the group as a whole, which we presume are 

 left for the concluding part ; yet it is to be regretted that in writing of insects of 

 such definite structural peculiarities, an introductory notice of them has not been 

 given. The 10 plates contain enlarged figures of the insects, rendered by chromo- 

 lithography from the author's camera-lucida drawings on the stones ; in execution 

 and finish they are excellent, and will prove to many persons to be a revelation of 

 beautiful and interesting forms, hitherto unsuspected and unnoticed. Thus, we 

 hope that the British Cicadce will, with this aid to their identification, receive more 

 attention, and, as there are doubtless many more species to be found, that in the 

 coming time others will be added to our fauna. 



Societies. 



Birmingham Entomological Society.- January 20th, 1890. — Mr. W. G. 

 Blatch, President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Chas. F. Thornewill exhibited Acidalia immorata, he also showed 

 Noctuaf estiva, var. conflua, from Scotland. Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed Cabera 

 rotundaria from Sutton Park. Mr. H. Tunaley read a paper on the Entomology of 

 Porlock, in Somersetshire, and its neighbourhood, giving a good description of the 

 place, and a list of the Lepidoptera taken, which included many good species ; the 

 paper was illustrated by the insects themselves. 



February 3rd, 1890.— First Annual Meeting. — The President in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the report of the Council for the past year : it was very 

 satisfactoi-y, the number of members, already 30, was still increasing, and good work 

 was being done. The Treasurer, Mr. R. C. Bradley, read the financial statement, 

 which showed a balance in hand. Votes of thanks wei-e given to the retiring 

 Ofiicers and Council, and the following were elected for the ensuing year : Mr. W. 

 G. Blatch, as President ; Rev. Chas. F. Thornewill, as Vice-President ; Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley, as Treasurer; Mr. C. J. Wainwright, as Secretary; and as remaining 

 Members of Council, Messrs. W. E. Lee and E. C. Tye. Handsome donations to 

 the library were announced from Messrs. C. B. and A. B. Halinsworth, and duly 

 acknowledged. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Son. Sec. 



N.B. — This Society meets on the first and third Monday in each month, at the 

 Medical Institute, Edmund Street, Birmingham, and all Entomologists will be 

 welcomed. 



