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The Rev. Canon Fowler exhibited for Miss Ormerod specimens of 

 Diloboderus abderus, Sturm, Eucranium arachnoides, Brull., and Meyathopa 

 violacea, Blanch., which she had received from the La Plata district of the 

 Argentine Territories, where they were said to be damaging the grass crops. 



Mr. Hampson raised an important point as to what was the legal " date 

 of publication " of Part I. of the Transactions of the Society, 1894. He 

 pointed out that the question of the priority of the names of certain new 

 species therein described would depend upon the date of publication. Upon 

 this a long discussion ensued. 



Professor Franz Klapalek, of Prague, communicated a paper entitled 

 I Descriptions of a new species of Raphidia, L., and of three new species 

 of Trichoptera from the Balkan Peninsula, with critical remarks on Panorpa 

 gibberosa, McLach." 



Lord Walsiugham then took the chair, and a Special General Meeting, 

 convened under Chap, xviii. of the Bye-Laws, was held.— H. Goss & W. W. 

 Fowler, Hon. Sees. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



Five Months' Sport in Somali-land. By Lord Wolverton. With 

 illustrations from photographs by Colonel Paget. 8vo, 

 pp. 108. London : Chapman & Hall. 1894. 



Another book on African big-game, the scene of adventure 

 i this time being in Somali-land. In November, 1892, Lord 

 ! Wolverton and Colonel Arthur Paget, with Mr. Vine as carto- 

 grapher, made their way to Aden, and proceeding thence to 

 | Berbera, purchased camels for transport of their food, water and 

 ammunition, and journeyed some 250 miles southward as far as 

 Galadi and Barri, on the Kiver Shebeyli. The expedition 

 occupied five months, and in the volume now before us (the 

 thinnest ever published on African sport and travel), Lord 

 | Wolverton has jotted down the most noteworthy adventures of 

 the party, which his brother sportsman has helped to illustrate. 



The travellers were evidently not much impressed with the 

 resources of Somali-land, which depend first on the Goats, which 

 make very good skins ; secondly, on the herds which will in the 

 future supply food ; and thirdly, on Ostrich feathers, and gum 

 which is said to be of a superior quality. The only indication of 

 mineral wealth was furnished by the compasses which, when 



