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species, as against 66.9 per cent, recorded for the adjoining county of Yorkshire. 

 Its compilation has evidently been most carefully done, and we have no doubt 

 the Catalogue is as accurate as it could have been made. It reflects the greatest 

 credit indeed on everybody concerned in its production. An excellent photo- 

 grapli of the late Mr. Robson forms an appropriate frontispiece to the work. — 

 G. T. P. 



The South London Entomolooical and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, June 12th, 1913. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Adkin exhibited tobacco leaves that were much infested by a beetle, 

 which was afterwards identified as Anobium paniceum. The tobacco came 

 recently from Turkey. Mr. West (Greenwich), a series of the new Hemipteron, 

 Psylla albipes, discovered by him on white-beam tree. Mr. Coxhead, blackthorn 

 leaves with galls of the Dipteron, Cecidomyia pruni, from Shooter's Hill. 

 Mr. Cowham, an aberration of Abraxas grossulariata, with the black markings 

 on the forewings coalesced to a wide band suppressing the usiial yellow 

 markings. Mr. Sich, the egg shells of the white ova of Dicranura vinula, 

 previously exhibited. Mr. Carr, the Lepidoptera taken by him in 1912. 

 Mr. Edwards, species of the Soiith American genus of butterflies, Dynamine. 

 Mr. H. Moore, larva? of the stag-beetle, Lucanus cervus, from LewLsham. 

 Mr. Blenkarn, a series of Brurhus pisi, a Coleopteron found by Mr. Main in 

 split-peas in a Woodford shop, and a pair of the rare Pterostichus parum- 

 punctatus taken at Chopwell, Northumberland, in May, 1912. Several reports 

 were made of the occurrence of Colias ed^isa, Pyrameis atalanta, and P. cardui. — 

 H. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM GIBRALTAR AND THE 

 SURROUNDING COUNTRY. 



{Contimied from p. 125). 



BY CAPTAIN J. J. JACOBS, R.E. (rET^'), M. I. MECH. E., P.E.S. 



The following list of Lepidoptera is arranged in accordance with 

 the Staudinger- Rebel Catalogue (1901), giving the cataiogvie numbers 

 for easy refei'ence, and with brief notes against each species : — 



Macro-Lepidoptera. 



1. — Papilio podalirius, L. I observed var. feisthamelii, Dup., at Granada, on 

 August 8th, 1910, and specimens were taken there in June, 1911 ; also 

 seen in Cork Woods on July 29th, 1910. I took two very ragged speci- 

 mens of var. latteri, Aust., at Tangier, on September 11th, 1911, and 

 saw others during the next few days. 



