282 THE entomologist's record. 



Pomona, California, contains the following articles : — " The Biology of 

 the N. American Crane Flies," by C. P. Alexander ; " Some inhabitants 

 of the Eound Gall of the Goldenrod," by Chi Ping ; " Aphidae of Cali- 

 fornia, IX," by E. B. Essig ; all of which are well illustrated, as is 

 usual in this publication. 



In the Entomoloifht for October, Mr. G. Meade-Waldo figures and 

 shortly diagnoses a new aberration of Ku.voa {Atjrotis) corticea, in 

 which the claviform and orbicular stigmata are almost obsolete. He 

 names it ab. obsoleta. 



In the same number Mr. Cecil Floersheim commences some further 

 " Notes on the Papilionids," in continuation of those which he at 

 various times handed to the late Mr. Tutt for inclusion in his works 

 on British Butterflies. 



Further Notes on Strywon (Thecla) aesciili are contributed to the 

 Ent. for October, by Messrs. G. T. Bethune-Baker and H. Rowland- 

 Brown. 



The following is the list of Officers and Council who are nomi- 

 nated for the South London Entomological Society during the ensuing 

 year. Prexulent, Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Vice-presidents, A. E. Gibbs, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., P.E.S., and R. Adkin, F.E.S. Treasurer, T. W. Hall, 

 F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Dodds. Curator, W. West (Greenwich). 

 Editor of Proceedinqs, Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. Hon. Secretan/, Stanley 

 Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. Council, S. R. Ashby, F.E.S., B. S. 

 Curwen, F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., M.B.O.U., W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., D. R. 

 Morford, W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S., T. H. Stallman, A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., 

 and C. B. Williams, B.A., F.E.S. 



je> OCI E TIE S. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



October %tli, 1915.— The Honble. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. — Election of Fellows.— Messrs. 

 Arthur Gibson, Entomological Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, 

 Canada, and Harold Beck Williams, 82, Filey Avenue, Stoke Newing- 

 ton, N., were elected Fellows of the Society. Living Larvae of Lyc^na 

 arion. — Capt. Purefoy exhibited young larvje of Lycaena arion, with an 

 accompanying ant. Drawings of Lyc^enid Larv.e.^ — Dr. Chapman 

 exhibited drawings of various Lyc^enid larvae with the epidiascope. 

 Dutch Chrysophanus dispab. — The Hon. N. C. Rothschild exhibited 

 four specimens of Chrysophanus dispar, taken this year in Holland, 

 apparently identical with the extinct British race. A curious case of 

 Syncryptic Resemblance. — Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen of a 

 Dipteron, a species of Noiioteliis (Fam. Stratioinyidae), which was quite 

 common where the cases of Lujfia ferchaultella occurred, the cases of 

 Lu{fia being imitated by a spider [Cyclosa conica). This Dipteron at 

 rest also closely imitated the Lu(fia cases. A new Aberration of Euxoa 

 corticea. — Mr. G. Meade- Waldo exhibited a new aberration of E. 

 corticea, Hb., taken in his light-trap at Hever, Kent, in July; the 

 specimen, known as ab. obsoleta, showing only the faintest trace of the 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata. Proportions in Mongrel Families. 

 — Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a very long and varied series of Aplecta 

 nebulosa and its varieties ab. robsoni and ab. thoiupsoni and intermediate 



