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female. Mr. C. V,. ■VVilliain.,, a piece of bark sliowinj,' the; silky tunnels made by 

 the Embiid larva, from Algeria. Mr. Newman, Igriades coridon from Herts, 

 includino- ab. seviisyngrapha, and a ? specimen with asymmetrical wings, the 

 smaller pair dusted with blue. Mr. Curwen, Brenthis euphrosyne from several 

 localities, those from the higher Alps being mostly large and light in colour, 

 instead of dark and small as usually stated. Mr. Moore, the aberration of 

 Rumicia phlseas captured during the recent field meeting at Worms Heath ; the 

 upper and underside of the forewings had much enlarged spots. = ab. magni- 

 puncta, Tutt. Mr West (Greenwich), a series of the Coleopteron, Dame rtijl- 

 frons, taken from the fungus I'ecently exhibited by Mr. Edwards, and a short 

 series of Cassida vittata. Several members reported that Golias edusa had been 

 seen in numbers at various places : Box Hill, Margate, Folkestone, &c., and 

 that C. hyale had been taken. —Ht. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October 1st, 1913. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Herr Wilhelm Junk, Gl, Sachsische-strasse, Berlin, W. 15, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. H. F. Bartlett exlnbited a specimen of Haplothorax hurcheUii found 

 under a stone on the lower part of Flagstaff Hill, St. Helena, on March 2oth, 

 1913. Mr. ¥. A. Buxton, larval and imaginal Emhiidx (sp. as yet undetermined) 

 from various localities in Tunis and Algeria, and from the coast to south of the 

 Atlas Mountains. Mr. E. E. Green, a Drilid (?) beetle from Ambaliingoda, 

 Ceylon, with remarkable elongate spatulate mandibular and maxillary palpi, 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, on behalf of Mr. G. T. Lyle, some silk woiuid from a Braconid 

 cocoon, together with specimens of the cocoons thcunselves. Mr. C. B. Williams, 

 specimens of the cocoons of the three British Coniopterygids. Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 several boxes of Lepidoptera in illustration of the geogi-aphical relations of 

 Mimicry. Mr. W. J. Lucas, on behalf of Dr. Buii', specimens of Diestranimena 

 marmorata, de Haan, a Stenopelmatid Locustid from Japan, which occurs alive 

 in Relf's Nursery at St. Leonards. Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, an example of 

 Araschnia levana, sent him by Mr. T. Butt Ekins of Penarth, who said that he 

 had captured it at the end of May this year on the outskirts of the Forest of 

 Dean. Comm. J. J. Walker, a ? Colias edusa, F., tak€>n by liunself in the Isle 

 of Shcppey, August 21st, 1913, in which the margins of the hind-wings were 

 almost entirely clear golden yelhjAv. Also a specimen of an i\jnerican Syntomid 

 moth, a Ceramidia near C. chloroplegia, Druce, found alive in a fruiterer's shop 

 in North Oxford, and evidently just emerged fi'om the pvipa. Also the following 

 Coleoptera : — (1) A short series of the very rare Halticid beetle Psylliodes 

 cyanoptera, 111., taken in June, 1913, at Wood Walton Fen, Hunts, on Sisymbrimn 

 Sophia, liy Mr. W. Holland. (2) A specimen of Coccinella 10-punctata, L., var. 

 conjluens. Haw., taken n the Isle of Sheppey, June, 1912, and another very 

 curious aberiatiou of the same beetle with golden yellow spots. (3) The very 

 rare <? of MaM/iodes a<omus, Thoms., from Wytham Park, June litli, 1913. (4) A 

 monstrosity of Ualiplus confinis, Steph., with three pei'fectly developed tarsi on 



