148 THE entomologist's record. 



spirit of the society at the present time, as well as co-secretary with 

 Mr. P. A. Buxton of the Entomological Section. When one looks 

 round the active members of the Entomological Society of London, 

 and recalls the fact that several of its most prominent Fellows are old 

 Rugbeians, one wonders why several of them do not appear on the list 

 of Honorary or Corresponding members of the Society. We see 

 Canon Hutchinson, Rev. F. D. Morice, Dr. Longstaff, and others, but 

 where are the names of other equally well-known Rugbeian entomolo- 

 gists. Mr. Hutchinson must fix some of these up for lectures next 

 year — busy as they are. It is always busy people who make most time. 

 There are some good papers in the Report — Mr. E. 0. Webb's on 

 " Dragonflies," shows considerable promise, and the illustrations are 

 most useful — but why, oh why, has he let through the statement that 

 " true ants are Hies, of the order Diptera " ? Of course, it is a howler 

 to the making of which we are all subject. Mr. P. A. Buxton's notes 

 on " Lepidoptera in Jamaica," are useful, whilst the notice of 

 the Exhibition, the Report of the Entomological Section, and the 

 Observations and Captures of Lepidoptera in the Rugby district in 

 1909, are all interesting. We would suggest that the report would 

 run better if the specific names were written in small letters, if the 

 generic names Avere written in full, and general terms, such as 

 LycjBnids, Urbicolids, Sphingids, etc., were kept in ordinary type. 

 There is much hard work connected with the keeping together of a 

 School Natural History Society, the members of which must, of 

 necessity, always be changing, and where the officers must see year by 

 year the products of their energy pass out of their immediate ken 

 into the wide world of science, but this must never be a matter for 

 regret, but must be looked forward to as the natural course of events, 

 the end that the society exists and works for. One suspects that the 

 Marlborough Natural History Society is still in existence, but what 

 has become of the Winchester Society, erstwhile one of the most 

 go-ahead of all the Natural History Societies attached to the public 

 schools ? We must congratulate the Rugby School Natural History 

 Society on its continued success. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological, and Natural History 

 Society. — April 2i8th, 1910. — Captures of bare Lepidoptera. — Mr. 

 W. West (Greenwich) exhibited numerous rare and interesting speci- 

 mens taken mainly by himself forty or fifty years ago. Many were of 

 local interest to entomologists of S.E. London. Included were Puntici 

 (laplidice (Folkestone), Ayrius conrolnili (Greenwich Park), Hippotion 

 celerio (Greenwich), Deiopeia pulchella (St. Margaret's Bay), Spilosoma 

 urticae (Greenwich), jEgeria cynipiforiiris, and .K. inyopaefornris (Green- 

 wich), ufJ. culiciforitiis (Darenth), .E. ichnennionifor^iris (Lee), Colias 

 liyale, C. ednsa and var. IwUce from the Brockley railway banks. 

 Anthrocerius. — Mr. R. Adkin, specimens of Anthrocera, including the 

 example supposed to be a hybrid between A. achillae and A. lilipendnlae 

 and stated that an examination of the genitalia by Mr. Pierce had 

 shown that the example in question was the latter species. Dark- 

 BANDED Amphidasys strataria. — Mr. Spcrring, specimens of yi //'/>/( /f/«.s7/.s 

 fitrataria bred from ova and having extremely dark bands. Legs of 

 Lepidopterous Larv^. — Mr. Sich read a paper on this subject. 



