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The first specimens were found on wliat is no doubt its usual food-plant in this 

 country, the Marsh Thistle, Citicu.s palusfris ; but the majority were taken on the 

 Uenip Agrimony, Eupatortum cannabinum, basking on the leaves in the sunshine 

 (when there was any !) or hiding beneath them when the sun was obscured. Canon 

 Fowler's remarks on the peculiar odour emitted by this beetle (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 

 xxii, p. Gl, and " British Coleoptera," vol. iv, p. 251) are very appropriate, as 

 to me the smell exactly resembles that of a smouldering candle made of coco- 

 nut slearino; the stridulatory powers of the insect {I. c.) are also very noticeable. 

 Atjapantkia liiiea/oco/lis is not, however, new to Oxfordshire, there being an old 

 record from Weston-on-tlie-Green, no doubt by the Rev. A. Matthews (Fowler, 

 Brit. Coleop., vol. iv, p. 251). The vcvy local Euhriu paludris was also taken rarely 

 by mo in the same place as the Agapaidhia.—S k^v.i J. Walker, Broekenliurst : 

 Jtdif 11 Ih, 1907. 



Cerophitus luwatus, F., taken at Liindhnrst. — A specimen of this fly, which 

 hitherto has been regarded as doubtfully British, was found in my cottage on 

 July 8th. It answers to Walker's Phityura iineata, F., rar. B.— Fredk. C. Adams, 

 Fern Cottage, Lyndhurst : July 22iid, 1907. 



BiKMiNGUAM Entomological Society : June 'Srd, 19u7. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethcne-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Rossiter again showed a long series of Tasniocampse, bred from pupae 

 dug near or between Langley Grreen and Wyre Forest, to show how the species 

 merged into one another ; a long series of incerla, Hufn., at one end, closely resem- 

 bling those of muiida, Esp., at the other end, were with difficulty separated from 

 specimens of xta/jilis, View. ; siabitis again merged into gracilis, F., and there 

 were specimens on each boundary line about which he found it difficult to decide. 

 Mr. H. Langley showed dark specimens of Tephrosia bistortata, Govz., icom Prince- 

 thorpe, where tiO /^ of the specimens seen were dark ; curiously, the first to appear 

 were the darkest. The darkest of all were taken on April 20tli, and none but 

 dark ones were seen till late in May, when tiie lighter ones began to appear. 

 Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, a number of pieces of amber well filled with insects. 

 Mr. Gr. T. B(>thuiic-Baker, a cocoon of Satumia pavonia, L., with two distinct 

 openings; there was, however, only one pupa inside, and the cocoon was of quite 

 normal size. He also showed, on behalf of Mr. G. II. Kenrick, a series of S27U0- 

 soma mendica, CI., var. rustica, Hb., bred from a female captured in the south of 

 Ireland ; they all came true to the parent form ; also other bred insects. Likewise 

 a number of species of Spilosoma and I'hragmatohia from various European 

 localities for comparison with Mr. Kenrii k's var. rustica. Mr. Chadwick, a visitor, 

 various interesting aberrations : Semiothisa (Macaria) titurata, CI., a specimen 

 from Oakley Wood apparently of the dark Delamere form, with dark hind marginal 

 band, and general dark colour; a very fine dark Chrysophanus pfiloeas, Jj, horn 

 near Claverdon, with broad hind marginal and apical band, which monopolised 

 most of the dark markings bearing only two spots on each fore-wing ; on the hind- 

 wings only a narrowish submarginal band of the ground colour was left ; the 



