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laria (several), Pieris brassicce, P. rapes, P. napi (all three, of course, 

 common everywhere), Euchlo'd cardamines {common ia the fields, lanes, &c.), 

 Bapta bimaculata (a few at dusk), B. temerata (a few at dusk), Epione 

 advenaria (one), Eurymene dolobraria (one or two), Acidalia remutaria 

 (very common), Melanippe sociata, M. montanata, and M. Jluctuata, Cabera 

 pusaria (common), Cidaria truncata (one or two), Camptogramma bilineata, 

 Amphidasys betularia, Lomaspilis marginata (one or two), Bombyx rubi 

 (very plentiful over the heaths), Zonosoma linear ia, and lodis iactearla. 

 Pechypogon barbalis, and Zanclognatha grisealis and Z. tarsipennalis, were 

 also very plentiful. The weather on the whole was good. The first day 

 was dull, and we had some rain, as I have mentioned above ; but the last 

 two days were quite fine, warm, and bright. The only disappointing part 

 of the business was the sugar, and that only corresponds with almost every 

 other experience in that direction I have heard of this year. It is to be 

 feared that this year is likely to prove as bad a year for sugaring as last one 

 was the reverse. As for the remarkable mixture of the seasons, it may be 

 illustrated by the fact that, whereas, on the Saturday Mr. Tremayne took a 

 Taniocampa stabilis, in fair condition, off a tree trunk, on the Sunday 

 following, Mr. Smith took a perfect Argynnis adippe in Stubby Copse. I 

 have since learnt that, on the Whit-Monday, Mr. F. W. Frohawk saw the 

 imago of Limenitis sibylla at Lyndhurst. — L. J. Teemayne, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — May I5th, 1893. Mr. E. C. 

 Bradley in the chair. Mr. G. W. Wynn showed Acherontia ati'opos, from 

 Cannock Chase. Mr. A. H. Martineau said that at Solihull a specimen of 

 Sphinx ligustri had entered a hive and been killed by the bees. The bees 

 then, unable to remove so large a body, had covered it up with wax. The 

 Secretary announced the receipt from Mr. John Willis, of Edgbaston, of a 

 handsome present of books (about forty volumes), &c. ; and a cordial vote 

 of thanks was passed to Mr. Willis for his kind gift. An excursion was 

 made to the Cotswolds at Whitsuntide, when, under the kind guidance of 

 Mr. Frank Stephens, of Ebley, a pleasant three days were spent in the 

 neighbourhood of Stroud, by the few members who went. Lycmia adonis 

 and Ino geryon were common amongst the Lepidoptera, and a number of 

 interesting Diptera and Hymenoptera were taken. Probably the best 

 capture was. Cheilosia chrysocoma, one of which was taken near Painswick. 

 — CoLBRAN J. Wainwbight, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATUEE. 



The Hemiptera-Heteroptera of the British Islands : a Descriptive Account 

 of the Families, Genera, and Species indigenous to Great Britain and 

 Ireland, ivith Notes as to Localities, Habitats, dc. By Edw^ard 

 Saunders, F.L.S. London : L. Eeeve & Co. 8vo, pp. vi, 350, 

 pis. 32, 



Slowly and surely the once " neglected Orders" are attracting the 

 attention which was denied to them after British entomologists gave 

 up the earlier practice of collecting all Orders of insects, and became 

 exclusively Lepidopterists or Coleopterists, as the case might be. To 

 Messrs. Douglas and Scott is due the credit of the revival of the study 



