396 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Germany — two months later than the Common Toad, B. vulgaris. Although 

 very local, B. calamita is distributed over the whole of England, as far north 

 as the Scotch coast of the Sol way Firth (Bell, ' British Reptiles '). Its 

 occurrence in the Co. Kerry has been recorded by Dr. Gunther in the 

 British Museum Catalogue of Batrachians (1858). — G. A. Boulenger. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



September 3, 1890.— Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.R.S., in the chair. 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited and remarked on specimens of Eupithecia 

 satyr at a, Eudorea ambigualis, and Tortrix viburnana from Darlington. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Martin Stanger Higgs, a 

 remarkable variety of Melitcba aurinia (artemis), taken a few years ago, in 

 Gloucestershire, by Mr. Joseph Merrin. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker communicated some observations on the 

 Entomology of Iceland, and gave an account of his recent travels in 

 that island. He stated that he had taken Bombus terrestris this year, for 

 the first time, in the north-west of Iceland, from which quarter of the 

 island it had not been recorded by Dr. Staudinger ; he also referred to the 

 enormous numbers of Ichneumonidse and Diptera which he had noticed in 

 the island. He further stated that in 1889, in the months of June and 

 July, Noctua conflua was the most abundant species of Lepidoptera in 

 Iceland ; but that this year, in July and August, Crymodes exulis was the 

 prevailing species, and that Charaas graminis and Coremia munitata also 

 occurred in great numbers. In reply to a question by Mr. Stainton, 

 Dr. Walker said that the flowers chiefly frequented by the humble-bees 

 were those of a small species of white Galium (probably Galium saxatile?) 

 and Viola tricolor. Dr. Walker also read " Notes on Calathus melano- 

 cephalus collected in Iceland, the Westmanno Isles, and the Faroe Isles 

 in June and July, 1890." Messrs. M'Lachlan, Stainton, Jenner Weir, 

 Stevens, Jacoby, Lewis, and others took part in the discussion which 

 ensued. 



Mr. Arthur G. Butler communicated a paper entitled " Further Notes 

 on the Synonymy of the genera of Noctuites." — H. Goss, lion. Sec. 



