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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
C. Fenn, A. F. Griffith, W. Farren, T. Baxter and Lord Walsingham 
are well to the front. It is advisable, before leaving the collecting 
portion of our work to notice the success of Dr. Chapman in 
hybridising Amphidasys prodro77iaria and A. betularia, and that of 
Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher in crossing ZygcBTia lo7iicerce with Z. filipe 7 idulcB^ 
and Z. lo7iicerce. with Z. trifolii. 
From the collector to the chief articles in our magazines is an easy 
step, and here, far and away the best are those of Drs. Chapman and 
Wood. It is doubtful whether anything so good, relating to the 
physiological aspect of entomology, has before been brought before the 
entomological public. Mr. Fenn’s diagnosis of Cidaria truncata and 
C. i77i77ia7iata is, perhaps, the best paper of its kind printed this year ; 
whilst the notes of Dr. Buckell and other entomologists on “ Wing 
Expansion ” are increasing our physiological knowledge in another 
direction. The Mo7iog7‘aph of British Pterophorma brings up our 
knowledge of this group to date, and many a macro-collector, who does 
not generally dabble in micros, will be enabled to study this group. A 
cheap monograph on the group has long been a desideratum. The 
series of papers on “ Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidop- 
tera ” has been brought to a close, and can now be obtained bound 
in cloth in a separate volume. 
The Societies all round have done well. The Entomological Society 
of London has gone on in its prosperous way. Series of papers of the 
utmost scientific value have been printed. The City of London 
Society has done, perhaps, more scientific work than any humble 
Society has ever before attempted, as the list of papers read before the 
Society, and published month by month in the Record, testifies. The 
South London Society, under one of our very best collectors, has not a 
barren record this year. Two years’ reports in one volume were 
published early in the year. The Annual Exhibition was a great 
success. Last year’s Report is in hand, and, when Mr. Tug well leaves 
the chair, if he can only get this part of the work well forward, he 
can certainly look back to a successful year of office. The Lancashire 
and Cheshire and the Birmingham Societies do their best, and run the 
London Societies close, but have, I believe, not yet adopted any 
systematic plan of printing their scientific papers. 
Of the publications, the Tra7isactio7is of the Ento77iological Society of 
Lo7idon are quite up to their usual excellence. May I again appeal to 
entomologists to aid this, our leading society, by becoming members, 
as its scientific publications are only limited by its income ? The 
E7it077iologisf s MoTithly Magazme still holds the even tenor of its way, 
undisturbed by the petty jealousies of its commoner rivals. The 
British Naturalist has some most interesting entomological matter. 
Collectors of exotic species can still get a considerable amount of 
descriptions of new Chinese, Japanese and Indian Lepidoptera and 
Coleoptera from the E7ito77iologist, amounting to eighty pages in the 
present volume. Our own magazine, essentially popular in its contents, 
increases in favour with the public, who appear to have got at last 
something to their taste, and a magazine that they can read from 
beginning to end and understand the whole. 
Of independent works valuable to British lepidopterists, there is very 
little to record. Local lists of the Lepidoptera of Leicestershire, Suffolk 
