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has approved of the appointment. Mr. Doncaster took first class 

 honours in both parts of the Natural Science Tripos, and was 

 Walsingham medallist in 1902. 



In the Revue Meii^'iieUc dc la Societe K»tumnloi)i(jne A'<7)»»roj.sf (April, 

 1910), Mr. Lambillion gives an interesting account of Apatura iris and 

 A. ioLe in the Forest of Bure (which, he says, is really an extension in 

 French territory of the Belgian woods of St. Mard), together with a 

 long list of minor aberrations of these species which appear to be very 

 frequent in this district. The species seem to be even more abundant 

 here than in the well-known woods of the southern Jura. 



The 15th Annual Congress of the South Eastern Union will be 

 held at Guildford on June 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th, 1910, when 

 Professor E. A. Gardner, M.A., will deliver the presidential address. 

 A very extensive programme of Excursions and Lectures by well-known 

 scientists has been arranged, the lecturers including Mr. Fred Enock, 

 "Aquatic Autocrats and Fairies" (Saturday evening), and Mr. J. W. 

 Tutt, "Colour in Insects" (Friday evening). Members of local 

 societies may become Associates of the Union and thus entitled to 

 attend the meetings, etc., and enjoy all the privileges of the Congress 

 on payment of a sum of -Is., which should be sent to the Rev. R. 

 Ashington Bullen, Englemoor, Woking, Surrey. A large contingent 

 of well-known entomologists attended the 1909 Congress at Winchester, 

 and it is expected that a larger party will foregather at Guildford, an 

 excellent country for collecting under excellent guidance. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — March 10th, 1910. — The Society's Collection of Coleoptera : Mr. 

 West exhibited two cabinet drawers of the society's collection of 

 coleoptera, which he had just remounted and arranged. Early 

 lepidoptera : Mr. J. P. Barrett, specimens of yyma hispidaria, Pldgalia 

 pedaria, and Hybernia leucophaearia from Richmond Park, and noted 

 that he took the first-named species in the same locality 40 years ago, 

 and that quite one-third of the last species seen were more or less 

 crippled. A rake earwig : Mr. Lucas, the photograph of a very rare 

 earwig, 0. leicisi, from a specimen recently obtained in the Liverpool 

 Docks. Melanic Nyssia hispidaria: Mr. Cowham, two bred intensely 

 black $ s of Xyssia hispidaria. Aberrations of Anthrocerids, etc. : 

 Mr. L. W. Newman, an interesting series of Anthrocerid species from 

 Bristol, taken by Messrs Smallcombe, including A. kippocrepidis ab. 

 rhrysantheiui, a yellow form, a fine pink form, and a red form with 

 yellow spots, with a confluent form of A. lonicerae. He also showed 

 a confluent specimen of A. riciae {nidiloti), and reported that pupa? of 

 a 2nd brood of Abraxas (/rossulaiiata kept out of doors were still alive. 

 Lantern slide exhibition : The remainder of the evening was devoted 

 to the exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Tonge, West (Ashtead), 

 Lucas, Dennis, and Edwards, including series illustrative of the resting- 

 attitudes of insects, the crystals formed from various solutions, rare 

 plants from the New Forest, details of insect structure, various plants 

 attacked by galls, and the natural history and structure of the cock- 

 roach. AI arch 2nd, 1910. — Larvae of Micro-Lepidoptera : Mr. Sich 

 exhibited specimens of Coleophora troglodytella bred from larvas fed on 



