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and placed in such sequence as has elsewhere been considered natural. They 

 are mixed up almost as though their names had been written on cards, well 

 shuffled up, and then taken down as they came. Thus we have the three 

 yellow underwings : IantMna, Fimbria, and Interjecta, separated from Pro* 

 nuha, Subsequa, and Orhona, by the interpolation of Sobrina and Augur ; 

 while Ashworthii stands between Baja and C. nigrum. His genus Mamestra 

 contains 44 species, 19 of which are British, and generally placed in the 

 following genera : Pachetra, Aplecta, Hadena, Mamestra, and Hecatera. 

 His Hadena contains 54 species, 20 British, and of the following genera : 

 Hadena, Eremobia, Crymodes, Mamestra, Xylophasia, Apamea, and Miana. 

 I cannot go through the catalogue in this way, nor can I comment upon the 

 ' ' mixtures as before," but I must mention his Cidaria. In this genus he 

 includes 152 species, about half of them being British, and generally placed in 

 the following genera : Cidaria, Melanthia, Thera, Emmelesia, Coremia, 

 Larentia, Fenusia, Melanippe, Camptogramma, Phibalapteryx, Oporabia, 

 Astkena, Eupisteria, Tpsipetes, and Pelurga. The species are equally mixed, 

 and some generally included in one or other of these are moved elsewhere. I 

 do not think I need say more on this subject, and hope the discussion on 

 nomenclature, if continued, will not be mixed up with that of arrangement, 

 which is quite another question. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



dune Qtk, 1888. — Dr. D. Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. George Meyer Darcis, of 32, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, was 

 elected a fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Pascoe brought for exhibition a book of fine plates of Mantida, drawn 

 by Prof. Westwood, which it had been hoped would have been published by 

 the Eay Society. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited a species of Hemiptera, Monanthia angustata, 

 H.S., new to Britain, which he had captured, near Cisbury, Worthing. The 

 insect is rather closely allied to the common Monanthia cardui, L. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a species of Halticida, which had been sent him 

 by Mr. D. Morris, Assistant Director of the Boyal Gardens, Kew, who had 

 received them from Mr. J. H. Hart, of the Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, with 

 a note to the effect that they had attacked young tobacco and egg-plants 

 badly in that island. Mr. Jacoby had, with some reserve, given as his 



