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■wings being more ample, but I could not detect any difference in the anal parts from 

 those of the type. It may be worth mentioning that the $ of the variety scoticus 

 appears to be much more scarce than that of the type. The proportion of the $ to 

 the $ of scoticus being about 7 per cent., and of the type 27 per cent. — James 

 J. F. X. King, 207, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow : January, 1888. 



[There is mucli yet to be learned with respect to the presumed varieties, based 

 on colour characters, of Philopotamus montanus. I have already pointed out (Rev. 

 and Synop. of European Triclioptera, p. 383) that Donovan's original figure of 

 montanus resembles the var. scoticus rather than what we are accustomed to consider 

 the " type " form. Then again there are the vars. chrysopterus (Morton) from 

 Clydesdale, and cesareus (McLach.) from Jersey. Also the very striking form that 

 I ventured to consider a distinct species, and described as insnlaris, from Guernsey. 

 The presumed var. cesareus appears to be peculiar to Jersey to the exclusion of any 

 other form of the species. The presumed species insularis appears equally peculiar 

 to G-uernsey, and exclusive there. But the presumed vars. chrysopterus and scoticus 

 are in a somewhat different position. They are only isolated, inasmuch as they seem 

 exclusively confined to certain streams within easy distance of localities where the 

 so-called " type " occurs in abundance but without the vars. I bring these points 

 prominently forward because they are fraught with importance. There is much yet 

 to be learned. — R. McLachlan.] 



Apatania muliebris, McLach. — Towards the end of Aiigust, during a short visit 

 to London, I spent a day at Arundel in search of Apatania muliebris, McL., having 

 had the locality indicated to me by Mr. McLachlan. Since his last visit it has 

 been considerably changed, retaining walls for a mill pond have been erected, and 

 the miniature waste-fall has been destroyed, but, notwithstanding the above serious 

 alterations in the surroundings, I might have obtained any number of the species, at 

 least, the $ , for as yet the $ has not been taken. — Id. 



[It is interesting to find that A. muliebris still holds its own, without the 

 apparent necessity for a husband, in the old locality, notwithstanding changes in its 

 very limited habitat. I have previously detailed my numerous visits to this locality, 

 in former times, in the hope of finding the S • — E,- McLachlan.] 



George Robert Waterhouse, F.Z.S., died at his residence at Putney on the 2l8t 

 of January, aged 77. A detailed notice will appear in our next No. 



The South London Entomological and NATtrEAL History Society: 

 December 22nd, 1887.— The President, R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Messrs. H. Hayward, F. E. Pow, F. S. Pilkington, M.D., W. R. Hicking, 

 H. I. Smith, C. Kedgley, F. Livesey, E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., F.E.S., G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., J. A. Smith, W. Turpin, S. Mosley, J. Butterfield, W. Farren, 

 I. Echersall, and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., were elected members. 



The only exhibits were a lilac-coloured variety of Lyccena Icarus, Rett., and an 

 hermaphrodite specimen of L. Corydon, Fb., by Mr. C. B. Smith, and a fine irradiated 

 variety of the under-side of L. Icarvs, by Mr. A. C. Smith. 



