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Cimex pipistrelU Jenyns, i»i Oxfordshire. — On April 24th last, whilst examininff 

 a rotten elm tree in Thame Park, Oxon, which had been blown down during- 

 one of the recent gales, and knowing- that a stock-dove had nested last year in 

 the hollow top, I hoped to find the pij^eon flea, Cei'atophyHus columhae Gerv., 

 and possibly some beetles attached to birds' nests. The hollow tree top, however, 

 was untenanted by anything of interest. About two feet lower down there was 

 a woodpecker's old nesting hole, with some mossy debris in the bottom, as 

 if one of the tits had used it last year, and in this debris and in the crevices in 

 the rotten wood there were a number of fleas and a dozen mature specimens 

 of a Cimex, as well as a good many immatui'e examples of the latter. These 

 bugs seemed to have come from the stock-dove's nest above. On examining 

 my captures, the flea was identified as Ceratophyllus gallinae Schrank, which 

 I have met with on several occasions in the nests of tits, and the bug proved 

 to be Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns. No doubt the old nesting hole had been used 

 as a roosting place by bats, although there were no signs of occupation by 

 these animals. — H. Bkitten, MyrtleView, Headington, Oxon : May 15th, 1916. 



Societies. 



ENTOMOLoaicAL SOCIETY OF LoNDON : Wednesday, April 5th, 1916. — 

 Special Meeting : Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Chairman, having read the notice summoning the Meeting, the pro- 

 posed alterations in the Bye-laws were submitted to the Fellows present. All 

 were adopted, with a few verbal amendments. 



Ordinary Meeting : Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, Vice-President, in 

 the Chair. 



Mr. Charles Hanslope Bocock, The Elms, Ashley, Newmarket, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



The Secretary announced that the Council had, in accordance with the 

 Bye-laws, co-opted Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis as a Member of Council, in the 

 place of the late Mr. G. Meade- Waldo. 



Mr. H. Main exhibited a new observation cage for the study of earth- 

 boring insects, especially Geotrupes species. Prof. Poulton, further examples 

 of Hypolimnas bolina L., from the same locality in Madagascar as the fifty-one 

 specimens shown by him last year. Prof. Poulton said that in the spring of 

 last year Mr. Dodd had sent him a number of interesting observations on various 

 insects in N. Queensland, together with examples of the species on which they 

 had. been made. He now brought forward some of these observations and showed 

 the insects concerned. Prof. Poulton said that he had received from Dr. E. C. L, 

 Perkins a letter, dated November 15th, 1915, on the nest-building instincts of 

 bees of the genera Osmia and Anthidium, together with the specimens referred 

 to and exhibited to the meeting. The fiev. F. D. Morice followed with 

 additional remarks on some of the insects exhibited. Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf 



