46 [Febniary, 



Guildford and Oxford, in October. Dioryctria splendidello* in nvimbers, 

 at Woking, by jarring pine boughs ; also a single example at rest on a 

 telegraph pole, near Shoreham, Sussex, August 21st. Phycis hetulse, among 

 birch, at the end of June, Horsell. 



ToRTRiCES : This is the first year we have paid any attention to the gi'oup, and 

 it may be of interest to note that 125 si^ecies, in all, have been taken. 

 They include : Tortrix piceana, Woking, June 21st. T. diversayia, Woking, 

 June 27th, on oak. Hedya servillana, Woking, June 2nd. Phoxopteryx 

 siculana, Woking, with P. unguicella and P. uncana, June 2nd and 

 August 12th. Psedisca ruhiginosana, on heaths, Woking, June 2nd. Coccyx 

 cosmophorana* a single example of this usually Scottish species taken 

 amongst pines, Woking, June 2nd, C pygmaeana* flying in the sunshine 

 around, or beaten out of, spruce at Tilford, Surrey, April 24th. Heusimene 

 fimhriana, on oak, Woking, April 14th. Eupcecilia implicitana, several at 

 Shoreham, Sussex, August. Argyrolepia zephyrana, Guildford, May 23rd. 

 A. xneana, imagines among ragwort on chalk, at Guildford ; larva) in the 

 roots of the same plant in December. Conchylis straminca, Guildford, 

 June 13th. 



The species marked with an asterisk, have not, so far as I know, been pre- 

 viously recorded from Surrey. — H G. Champion, Horsell, Woking: Dec, 1911. 



Limnophilus suhcentralis, Braucr, near Nethy Bridge. — Five years ago I 

 came across Limnophilus suhcentralis, Brauer, in considerable niimbers, but 

 only females ; towards the end of last summer I worked for the species 

 in JiUy and Augvist with the hope of getting a sxapply of males. About 

 the middle of Aiigust I saw a few females, and visited the locality several 

 times for the sake of the males ; they did not appear until the last day or two 

 of the nionth, and, strange to say, the males were all more or less chipped at 

 the tips of the wings, although the females were in perfect condition. My 

 original specimens were taken in the middle of July, 1878, at Aviemore ; in 

 1882 I took it at Kinardochie Loch, Perthshire, in the middle of August ; and 

 in 1886 it occvirred at Loch Awe during July. — James J. F. X. King, 1, Athol 

 Gardens Terrace, Kelvinside, Glasgow : January Ibth, 1912. 



The " Verrall " supper.— The evening before the Annual General Meeting of 

 the Entomological Society of London has been, for more than 20 years, a date 

 looked forward to by many Entomologists with pleastu-able anticipation as one 

 when a pleasant social evening would be spent in the company of other fellow 

 students of nature, by invitation of the late Mr. Verrall in his capacity as a 

 member of the Entomological Club. The founders of this very old Club no 

 doubt did not fail to realize tlie advantages accruing to Entomological Science 

 from social intercourse, but Mr. Verrall, by not limiting the number of his 

 invitations, made his Annual Supper at the Holborn Restaurant an " Event," 

 which many felt ought not to be allowed to cease at his death ; the idea of 

 continuing it, on as nearly as possible the same lines, in memory of its founder, 

 was therefore decided upon. Consequently on January 16th, some 94 



