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its habits, and as the remark probably applies equally to halictula, it may be 

 well to record that the ? ? were constructing' their bvu-rows between stones 

 chiefly on a hard sandy pathway, less frequently in an adjoining sandy 

 moss -covered bank, and provisioning them with pollen collected from 

 Jasione montana. The insect is exti-aordinarily Halictiform and might easily 

 be passed over for H. minutissinms (which species, however, looks consider- 

 ably blacker than halictula owing to the much more profuse grey pubescence 

 of the latter), and I am inclined to think that it will prove less rare 

 than has been thought now that its food plant is known. Mr Saunders 

 mentions that he recognised D. vulgaris by its curious " wriggling " flight ; 

 that of halictula (and its method of entering a flower), however, appears to me 

 to coincide exactly with that of any of the smaller Halicti. H. Frieze (Die 

 Bienen Europa's) states that he has observed D. halictula on " Dolden," i.e., 

 Umbellifers. — C. H. Mortimer, Eoy ton Chase, Byfleet : July 16th, 1913. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, June 26th, 1913. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, President, in the Ohair. 



Mr. Main exhibited pupa and living larva of Parnassius apollo and the 

 larva of the Tiger beetle, Cicindela sylvatica, from near Meiringen, Switzerland. 

 Mr. Coxhead, galls on leaves of beech, and coloured drawings of the same ; 

 they were of the Cecidomyid, Mikiola fagi. Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a series of 

 E^lchloe cardamines from near Messina, Sicily, and pointed out that they were 

 small compared with average British specimens and were known as ab. turritis, 

 in which the apical blotch is not extended beyond the discal spot. Mr. Main 

 said that Phyllotoma aceris, the jumping saw-fly, was now common in many 

 places in the larval state. Messrs. Sich, Adkin, Edwards, Barrett, and 

 Dr. Chapman made remarks on the season. 



Thursday, July 10th. The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Main, a species of tick from a tortoise of Maroccan origin, the males 

 were small and blackish in coloiu", while the female was many times larger and 

 of a delicate pale slate colour; also cases of the Psychid, Acanthopsyche opacella. 

 Mr. Adkin, series of Celastrina argiolus (a) reared in July and August, 1912, 

 and (b) reared in April and May, 1913, from the same lot of larvs from Eyns- 

 ford ; (c) reared from Eastbourne larvas in April and May, 1913. The two 

 spring series were much alike and the females had much less of the heavy 

 bordering of the smnmer emergence. Mr. Edwards, several species of Papilio 

 of the P. segeus group from the Australian region, including the rare P. gam- 

 hrisius. Mr. Blair, a nest of the wasp Polistes gallica from Meiringen, with the 

 living female. Mr. Turner, for Mr. Carr, a bred Cerostoma scabrella. Mr. Barrett 

 and others remarked on the comparative sizes of the captures of other seasons 

 with the present. Some members considered that imagines were smaller this 

 year, while others thought that they were quite up to the average size. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



