128 ~ [May, 



The following week T observed aiiotliev small speeies, and repealing the former 

 process, I obtained males, females and workers, on July 26th and following days, of 

 Bothriomyrmex meridionalis . — G. C. Bignell, Saltash, Cornwall : March 14i/«,1901. 



Note on AtliaHa spinarum, L. — The 'Rev. F. D. Morice remarks {ante p. 98) on 

 the apparent scarcity of this sawfly in Britain at the present day. I think he might 

 go further back. Thirty and more years ago I used to collect sawflies diligently, 

 and still retain my collection. I quite remember that this was always a desiderated 

 species with me, and personally I seem to have captured only a single example, 

 which was taken in Darenth Wood in May, 1868. It is true that I never investi- 

 gated turnip or mustard fields, but the insect feeds on various uncultivated Cruci- 

 fer^, and should not be the rarity that it has apparently become. Is it still known 

 ns an agricultural pest anywhere in this country ? — E. McLachlan, Lewisham, 

 London : April, 1901. 



I'^NTOMOLOGICAL SocTF.TY OF LONDON: March Gth, 1901. — The Eev. Canon 

 Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. W. Lane, of 9, Teesdale Street, Hackney Eoad, N.E., was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited a parasite, or Braconid, on Ceutliorrhyn- 

 chus sttlcicoUis, bred from the galls on a turnip caused by the larva of that beetle, 

 together with the host. Mr. A. J. Chitty, a variety of P.tyHiodes cj/anop/era. 111., 

 the coloration of the thorax dark instead of the usual red, taken by him along with 

 the typical form in August, 1892, at Wicken Fen, close to the Pumping Station. 

 Mr. IT. J. Turner, a long series of Brtfophila miiralis {glandifera) from Dawlish. 

 The whole were either taken on, or bred from pupre cut out of, a single roadside 

 wall some hundred yards long, very lofty, and facing nearly north, on which aspect, 

 however, it was protected by higher ground. They were obtained in mid-August, 

 with the exception of a few which emerged at intervals during September and 

 October, 1900. Generally speaking the specimens were very dark, and the series 

 was remarkable in that it contained but a few isolated examples of the forms which 

 are prevalent in more eastern localities like Freshwater, Eastbourne, or Folkestone. 

 The hind-wings of all the specimens were dark, while, in the majority, the black 

 markings of the fore-wings were much intensified and increased in number, and a 

 few specimens were largely suffused with black. On the motion of Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes, seconded by Mr. H. Goss, it was resolved that a Committee be appointed to 

 consider the question of uniformity in nomenclature for the guidance of specialists 

 contributing to the Victoria County Histories, and that the appointment of the 

 Committee should rest with the Council of the Society. Tlie following papers were 

 read : — •" Cetoniidce collected by Messrs. H. E. Andrewes and T. E. D. Bell in the 

 Bombay Presidency, with Descriptions of the New Species," by O. E. Janson, and 

 " A Supplementary Catalogue of British Ichneumonidce," by Claude Morley. 



