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"copper" very widely spread in the east; and the "skipper" 

 Oeiienes nostrodmn its. 



At the time Mr. Andrews wrote he was " in the Jordan valley in 

 a broken chaos of limestone hills very glaring in the sun." He 

 went on to say, " I have been right down to the Jordan, which is 

 bordered by a narrow belt of vegetation for about half a mile on 

 either side, with tamarisks, bamboo-like reeds, and some big trees, 

 poplars, and a kind of larch and shrubs unknown to me. It was 

 in that belt I took the two or three specimens labelled ' Jordan 

 Valley ' ; the yellow butterfly {'IWacolus fausta) was common. I 

 also saw a lot in the Jordan Hills we crossed, but I saw none in 

 the Jaffa district." He further says, " As far as my experience 

 goes, Palestine is not prolific in butterflies. Hymenoptera are most 

 abundant, also Orthoptera, and in the neighbourhood of water, 

 Neuroptera. Certain groups of Diptera are also abundant, but 

 Hymenoptera are easily first ; bees, wasps, and ants." 



Ahuphila aescidaria was reported common at AVest Wickham, but 

 only a few had been seen in Epping Forest, where Apochehna 

 hispidan'a had been fairly common. 



Mr. Frohawk asked if the rose-beetle, Cetonia aiirota, and the 

 musk-beetle, Aro)nia nionchata, had been observed of late years in 

 the suburbs of London, where some twenty -five years ago they were 

 much in evidence. It appeared from the remarks of various 

 members that these beetles had very largely disappeared from that 

 neighbourhood, although occasionally observed in a few areas. 



MARCH 21 til, 1919. 



Mr. D. V. Ash, of Surbiton, was elected a member. 



Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone exhibited a long and varied series of 

 Lycia hirtaria bred by the late Mr. L. H. Archer from a female 

 taken at Wimbledon. The upper wings of many of the males were 

 deep black, and but slightly relieved by yellow markings. The 

 larvffi fed up rapidly, being kept in a hothouse. Last year Mr. 

 Buckstone bred ten examples of this species, which had spent three 

 winters in the pupal state. 



Mi'. Hy. J. Turner exhibited (1) a series of the beautiful Zi/(/aena 

 rhadamanthua from Hyeres, S. France, including the ab. ciin/idata, 

 in which the abdomen has a red girdle ; (2) a series of Abraxas 

 fiantaria, a species closely resembling the British A. sylvata [uhnata), 

 also from Hyeres. 



