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of insects by the Bureau of Entomology were exceptionally extensive 

 and notable. The largest and most important was a collection made 

 by the force of the Bureau engaged in the investigation of southern 

 field crops, and came chiefly from Texas. This is probably the best 

 state collection ever brought together." Other noteworthy accessions 

 are from the Bahama Islands and Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, Cali- 

 fornia and Alaska, and numerous gifts from individuals of specimens 

 from faunas outside the United States area. No less than a hundred 

 separate publications, from the department of insects alone, have been 

 issued during the year, many of them containing plates and diagrams ; 

 twenty-eight of these contributions deal with the Lepidoptera. 



In the Kntonioloiiist for April, T. V. Theobald announces a lime- 

 trre aphis, Pac/n/pappa remimnri, as new to Britain. This is of 

 ef:pecial interest both from its rarity and from the fact that the great 

 French observer, Reaumur, described and figured the leaf monstrosity 

 caused by it in Vol. II. of his famous Mcmoires poto sercir a V 

 llistoirc des Insectes in 1737. 



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March 3nl, 1915. — Election of Fellow. — Prof. Wm. Blaxland, 

 M.A., D.Sc, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Brenthis 

 pales and var. arsilache from Norway. — Mr. P, A. Buxton exhibited 

 a short series of B. pales and B. arsilache from Lesjevaerk and Suren- 

 dal, Central Norway, the former having been taken at an altitude 

 of 3,000 to 4,000 feet, the latter from 1,000 to 3,000 feet. Sicilan 

 Species of Euchloe. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited a series of E. 

 damone from Mt. Etna, and commented on their lack of variation. 

 Also a series of E. cardamines var. turritis, remarking on their small 

 size. Gynandromorphous Lepidoptera. — Dr. Cockayne exhibited : — 

 (1) Gynandromorphous A;/riades coridon, from Royston, August, 1914. 

 The specimen was predominantly female, var. semisyiujrajiha. (2) 

 Gynandromorphous hybrid harri:>(ini {Ithysia sonan'a $ x Lycia hirtaria 

 2 ), bred in April, 1912, by Mr. Worsley-Wood. Noteworthy British 

 1{hopalocera. — Comm. Walker, on behalf of Mr. Adams, exhibited : — 

 (a) A magnificent series of varieties of Polyr/onia c-alhnm, including 

 several strongly suffused examples, from the Forest of Dean, [b) Two 

 specimens of Araschnia Icvana, gen. aest. jirorsa, from the same 

 locality, taken in 1914, (r) A gynandromorphous Urbi'cola ounina, 

 right side ? , left side ^ , from Box Hill. ('/) A very fine melanic 

 aberration of Dryas paphla J , from South Wales. Diptera from the 

 l'\\LKLAND Islands. — Mr. F, W. Edwards exhibited two species of 

 apterous Diptera, one belonging to the Borhnridae, the other to the 

 Ephyilridae, both collected in the Falkland Islands by Dr. Malcolm 

 Cameron, Fleet Surgeon of H.M.S. Cornirall, on December 7th, the 

 day before the naval battle. Both appeared to be new to science. A 

 IIyeernatino Pupa of Pyrameis atalanta. — Mr. L. W. Newman exhi- 

 bited a living pupa of P. atalanta, and read notes on the copulation of 

 Pyrameis atalanta in October, and the hybernating of the species in the 

 pupal stage. A large family of Acraea encedon, L,, bred at Durban 



