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despond in which we have been driven by those who make science 

 subservient to nomenclature. 



Mr. Tutt has reprinted his papers on melanisu, and they can be 

 had from him for 2/6. 



A new work on British Diptera is announced, but it appears from 

 prospectus to be more of a popular than a scientific character. It is 

 published bi-monthly, by Elliott Stock, at i/- per part. 



A new work on Britisli Hemiptera — Homoptera, by Mr. Edward 

 Saunders — is also in the press. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICxA.L SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Nov. /\th. — Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Major John Nathaniel Still, of Tiverton, Devon, and the Junior United Service 

 Club, Charles Street, St. James's, S.W., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a series of a very dark-coloured form of Apis reared 

 by Mr. John Hewett, of Sheffield, from bees imported from Tunis, and which he 

 proposed to call " Punic Bees." They were larger than the black Apis unicolor, Latr., 

 of Mauritius and Bourbon, and were almost entirely black, except in the legs which 

 were of a more or less reddish colour. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited five melanic specimens of Aplecta nebulosa, reared by 

 Mr. Collins, of Warrington, from larvae collected in Delamere Forest, Cheshire, and 

 described by him, in the ' Proceedings of the Lancashire and Cheshire Natural 

 History Society,' as A. ne'julosa, var. Robsoni, in honour of Mr. John E. Robson, of 

 Hartlepool. Mr. Barrett also exhibited a beautiful variety of Argynnis aglaia, taken 

 in Norfolk by Dr. F. D. Wheeler, and two specimens (male and female) of Lycana 

 argiades, taken in August, 1885, on Bloxworth Heath, Dorsetshire, by Mr. C. O. and 

 Mr. A. Pickard Cambridge respectively. 



Mr. H, St. John Donisthorpe exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, comprising 

 about thirty-six species, made in a London granary in 1890 and i8gi. The genera 

 represented included Sphodrus, Pristonychus, Calathiis, Quedius, Creophilus, Omalium, 

 Trogosita, Silvanus, Lathridius, Dermestes, Anthrenus, Corynetes, Ptinus, Niptiis, Anobiim ^ 

 Blaps, Tenebrio, Calandra, Bnicluis, Sec. 



Mr. A. B. Farn exhibited a series of specimens of Etcbolia lineolata, bred from eggs 

 laid by a specimen taken at Yarmouth. The series included several remarkable and 

 beautiful varieties, and the size of the specimens was much above the average. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited specimens of Argynnis ino, A. pales, and A. frigga, 

 fro:n Norway. 



Mr. B. A. Bower exhibited, for Mr. J. Gardner, specimens of Nephoptcryx splendid- 

 ella, H.-S., Botys lupulinalis, Clk., and Bvyotropha obscurella, Hein., taken at Hartlepool 

 last June and August. 



