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subsequently, we shall, in all probability, see some pretty biids with delicate 

 brown backs and white breasts longitudinally streaked with dark brown and 

 with a patch of light brown across the upper parts. We should have no 

 difficulty in recognizing them as Spotted Flycatchers. At the end of the 

 month the Bed-backed Shrike or butcher bird appears and immediately com- 

 mences nest building. 

 Cambridge. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



April Uh, 1888. — Dr. David Sha.rp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



The Rev. J. H. Hodson, B.A., of Torquay, Devon ; Mr. A. J. Croker, of 

 New Cross, S.E. ; Mr. G. C. Griffith, of Gotham, Bristol ; and Mr. Albert 

 H. Jones, of Eltham, Kent, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a large number of insects lately received from 

 Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., of Melbourne, which had 

 been collected by Mr. Sayer on Mount Obree and the adjoining ranges in 

 New Guinea, during Mr. Cuthbertson's recent expedition there under the 

 direction of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia. The collection 

 comprised about 240 species of Coleoptera, 150 species of Lepidoptera, 

 48 species of Hemiptera, and a few species of Diptera, Hymenoptera, and 

 Orthoptera. The Lepidoptera included twenty species of butterflies belong- 

 ing to the genera Calliplcsa, Chanapa, ffamadryas, Melanitis, Mycalesis, 

 Hypocysta, Tenaris, Hypolimnas, Cyrestis, Neptis, Acraa, Danais, Pitkicops, 

 Appias, Ornithoptera, JEurycus, &c. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited, and made remarks on, about sixty 

 specimens — no two of which were alike — of a species of butterfly belonging 

 to the genus Hypolimnas, all of which had been caught by Mr. Woodford 

 near Suva, Yiti-Levu, Fiji, on one patch of Zinnias. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. C. Bignell, 

 cases of Thyridopteryx ephememformis, Haworth. collected near Charleston, 

 U.S.A. Mr. Stainton said he hoped Mr. Bignell would not introduce this 

 pest into England. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited, and read notes on, about twenty species of 

 South African dragonflies lately received from Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., of 

 Cape Town. Mr. Kirby said the collection included some new species. 

 Mr. A. Sich exhibited a bred specimen of a variety of Plusia gamma, 

 Mr. Goss read a letter from Mr. Bignell, correcting a statement made by 



