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few females being found on the rushes. I have already published a note (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., 3rd Ser., Vol. I, p. 242, 1915) referring to the occurrence of this 

 insect in Eppiug Forest, and mentioned that it was to be foimd " by sweeping 

 Jitncirs in marshy ground near Loughton Camp." The series now under con- 

 sideration did not come from precisely the same locality as that of last year: 

 the ground was far from marshy, being a dry slope facing north, and i-ather 

 nearer Debden Slade, and the Juncus was here growing in clumps. All the 

 males taken this year have the thorax coloured as in the opposite sex, viz., red 

 and black. As I have a few duplicates to dispose of I shovild be glad to hear 

 from collectors requiring a specimen or tAvo. — Harold E. Box, 55, Baxter 

 Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex : October 2nd, 1916. 



leuiciu. 



•■' Yorkshire's Contribution to Science." By T. Shbpparu, M.Sc, 

 F.G.S., P.E.G.S., etc. London : A. Brown and Sons, Limited, 5, Farringdon 

 Avenue, E.C., and at Hull and York. 1916. 



In this carefully compiled and well printed vokime we are perhaps a little 

 disappointed to find that the references to our science are by no means so full 

 or so numerous as might have been expected, when we call to mind the niunbcr 

 of eminent Yorkshire Entomologists, and the large amount of excellent work 

 they have done in the past and are now doing. But as a medium of reference 

 to the work of the scientific societies of Yorkshire, which are perhaps more 

 numerous and flourishing in that county than in any other, and to the many 

 impoi'tant contributions to natiu'al and archaeological science which we owe to 

 Yorkshiremen, Mr. Sheppard's little book will be found of great value and 

 interest. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, August 24-th, 1916. — Mr. Ht. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Main exhibited (1) Larva, pupa, and imago of the water-beetle, Pelohius 

 tardus ; (2) The curious result of an attack of fungus on a Syrphid fly ; and 

 (3) The ova of the Neuropteron Hemerobius concinnu,s. Mr. Curwen, a bred 

 series of Cleora lichenaria and Cleora juhata (glabraria) ivom the New Forest. 

 The larvae of the latter species fed on a lichen, Cladonia. He also showed an 

 example of Xanthorhor fluctuata asymmetrical in both shape and markings. 

 Mr. Turner, details of the life-histories of some Micro-Lepidoptera -. — (1) Mines 

 of Lithocolletis lantanella inlarirustinus ; (2) Pyramidal cones in oak leaves of 

 larvae of Gracilaria alchimiella (s^vederella) ; (3) Galleries of larvae of Gelechia 

 pinguinella {turpella) on poplar leaves ; (4) Mines of Lithocolletis leucographella 

 in leaves of Crataegus pyracantha ; (5) The beautiful network cocoons of 

 Epiblemia strictellus ; and (6) Larval cases of a Coleophorid, said to be 



