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that of Sculitantides {J'oli/onDiiatiis) oHon. It was of a pale dingy green, 

 with a light claret-coloured dorsal stripe — head black. A raised lump 

 on each segment, from one of which I think the penultimate, it pro- 

 truded, and quickly withdrew, two little warts. It was crawling 

 slowly along, across a stone, attended by some small reddish ants, two 

 of which I boxed with it. It never fed, and after several days of rest- 

 less wandering about its prison, it took up its position, as I hoped, for 

 a moult. However, it had been " stung," and next day parasitic grubs 

 began to emerge, and by nightfall 14 or 15 small white cocoons were 

 in " evidence," upon and around the shrunken body of the larva. 

 The ants still faithfully stuck to their posts, until I threw the lot 

 away. Whatever other advantages the association of ants with 

 Lycsenid larvae may bring to the latter, it is clear that protection from 

 parasitic flies is not always (if ever) to be counted as one of them. — 

 W. H. St. Quintin, Scampston Hail, Rillington, York. February 4:t/i, 

 1910. 



URRENT NOTES. 



Dr. Malcolm Burr is representing the Entomological iSociety of 

 London, the Lmnean Society, and we believe also the Zoological 

 Society of London, at the Jubilee of the Entomological Society of 

 Kussia. He left for St, Petersburg on March 5th, and will be absent 

 about ten days. It is most fortunate that we have a quite first-rank 

 entomologist able to speak for us in the native language at such an 

 important ceremony as this. His energy also as the British secretary 

 of the International Congress of Entomology to be held at Brussels is 

 making itself felt, but we believe we are right in stating that he does 

 not consider the more wealthy British entomologists are supporting 

 this important venture so strongly as the occasion demands. 



The last meeting of the Entomological Club was held on February 

 22nd, 1910, at 58, Kensington Mansions, South Kensington, when 

 Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe was the host. The members of the club 

 and friends, who were received by Mr. and Mrs. Donisthorpe, began to 

 arrive at 6.30 p.m., and by 8 p.m. the following were present: — 

 Drs. Malcolm Burr, F. A. Dixey, S. F. Harmer, K. .Jordan, Messrs. R. 

 Adkin, E. C. Bedwell, F. Bouskell, Rowland-Brown, J. Collin, Here- 

 ward Dollman, Willoughby Ellis, Selwyn Image, A. H. Jones, 

 C. Morley, J. R. le B. Tomlin, J. W. Tutt, and G. H. Verrall. Supper 

 was served at 8.30 p.m., and the pretty menu, decked in Mr. Verrall's 

 " election colours," pink and white, as were also the table decorations, 

 will long remind one of a most enjoyable evening spent in most 

 congenial society. 



Professor W. Bateson has given up his post as Professor of Biology 

 at Cambridge University, to become director of the new Horticultural 

 Institute at Merton. Mr. Reginald Crundall Punnett, M.A., 

 Fellow of Gonvilie and Caius, has been elected to the Professorship of 

 Biology in his place. Professor Punnett is now Superintendent of 

 the Museum of Zoology ; he was Walsingham Medallist in 1900, 

 Balfour Student in 1904, and Thruston Medallist in 1908. 



" A contribution to our knowledge of the entomological geography 

 of the Upper Klar river valley" {Arkiv Zool. Sv. Vetensk. i:)tuckli(iliii) ; 

 " Lepidoptera from the oak-region of Varmland " {Hut. TuUkrift, 

 1908), and " Survivals and pseudo- survivals of the glacial period 



