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matter) for the North London to select as officers next year a set of 
men helongin" to both societies, and for the City of London Society 
to elect as officers for the year the same memhers, the two societies 
uniting forthwith. The present condition is, scientifically, deplorable. 
I should not like this criticism to be my last words to you as your 
President, nor should I like the ideals that we have set before our¬ 
selves in our attempt to do some science in our entomology during the 
last few years to be swamped to-night in what are, after all, however 
necessary, somewhat low and sordid considerations. Let us look at 
that aspect of our subject which enlightens us, and it may be as well 
as an introduction to something more definite to take a general survey 
of the work done during the past year. 
I have done so little actual work in collecting Lepidoptera myself, 
none at all, in fact, in England, that I do not feel so much at home as 
usual in briefly summarising the work done. Collecting, on the whole, 
throughout the country, seems to have been as uncertain as usual, and 
to be considered good or bad almost in proportion with the regularity 
and persistency that the collector has followed his pursuit. The Fens 
have yielded the rare Hndrilla palimtris in quite unprecedented 
numbers, whilst all the other local insects peculiar to the Fens and 
Broads appear to have occurred in rather more than their usual abun¬ 
dance, notably I\'<)na(iria cannae and l^enta iiiaritiina. In the south¬ 
eastern counties the capture of larvse of (.'HculUa iinaphaliim moderate 
numbers has taken place, after a most careful and assiduous hunt, 
extending over several years, by Mr. Sheldon. The Isle of Wight 
insects appear to have been as abundant as usual, and the occurrence 
of Leuvania vitolUna, several .specimens, is chronicled by Mr. Hodges, 
whilst in Devonshire the rearing of a very fine brood of Zonoaoma 
annidata ah. (ihsalcta may be carried over to the account of Dr. Riding. 
What has been done in our western counties one hardly knows, but in 
Yorkshire the dark aberrations of Abraxas si/lrata have again occurred 
in abundance. Near Oban, Mr. Sheldon has found Anthrocera j>i(r- 
paralis [iiiinos) in the haunts discovered by Somerville almost 50 years 
ago. i\Ir. Reid has sent from Scotland a marvellous lot of Taenio- 
campids that he has l)red and other rare Scotch species, including 
rachnobia lii/iwrbarca in striking variety. Mr. Studd notes that Calli- 
morpha hera is year by year extending its range, and numbers of other 
interesting records have been made that escape me now. 
There have, apparently, been only three species of Lepidoptera 
added to the British list: Lozopcra beatrivcUa (a Tortricid allied to L. 
francillonana), recently described by Lord Walsingham from south 
Europe, and immediately afterwards detected by Mr. Purdey at 
Folkestone ; Aristotclia srrrdla, added to the British list by Lord 
Walsingham from specimens captured by Mr. Atmore; and Aproae- 
rrma rinella, a species new to science, added by Mr. Bankes, and 
named after that excellent micro-lepidopterist, Mr. Vine. Here I 
would make another appeal to our younger lepidopterists who really 
have scientific leanings, to study (or, at least, collect) the Micro- 
lepidoptera and get some grasp of our fauna as a whole, and put aside 
the absurdity of being macro-lepidopterists without a general know¬ 
ledge of even our small insular lepidopterous fauna. 
The members of our Society need not he at all ashamed of their 
share in the work done among the Coleoptera. Qaedias kraatdi has 
