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that inaiiy will welcome such a production, which might escape the notice of some 

 through being published at a local country town. Mr. Pickard-Canibridge is a 

 veteran in the field of araclmology, and one may be sure that any List compiled by 

 him is well done. The introductory notes mainly concern what has been done in 

 this country since the publication of the " Spiders of Dorset " in 1881. At the 

 present time the List enumerates 534 species contained in 1.53 genera. The 

 synonymy and bibliography are full. There is also a List of 31 species described by 

 Mr. Biftckwall, " of which tlie types are lost and genera uncertain." 



^ocietic.5. 



BiRMiNGnAM Entomological Society : Felrvary Aili, 1901.— Annual 

 Meeting.— Mr. C. Bradley in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Council was read, showing an increased number of 

 Members in the Society and growing prosperity ; and the Treasurer presented his 

 Annual Statement, showing a small balance in hand. 



Mr. G. T. Betlume-Baker was re-elected President, and Mr. H. Willoughby 

 Ellis was elected Vice-President for tlie ensuing year ; the remaining Officers being 

 as before. 



The following were exhibited : — Mr. R. C. Bradley, Hiimenoptern of the genus 

 A7nmophila, three species, snhnlosa, hirsida, and rampestris, all from Bournemouth, 

 where all three species occurred together last August, the two former in abundance, 

 the latter less commonly. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, rare Diptera taken in 1900 : 

 Oxycera pulchella from West Runton, Norfolk ; Dideafasciata and Melanostoma 

 hi/alinata from Wyre Forest. Mr. G. W. Wynn, a large series of T^punda lutn- 

 lenta, taken at sugar in Wyre Forest last autumn, they were very constant in 

 coloration, all being dark, but not black specimens. Mr. A. D. Inims, Acronycia 

 alni, bred from a pupa found under rotten palings between Hall Green and Solihull. 

 Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, a collection of Coleoptera taken in only three hours' col- 

 lecting in Bedfordshire at Christmas last ; the most noteworthy capture was Bagous 

 cylindrits, of which rare species he obtained three specimens. Agahus nehulosits 

 was present in thousands. 



February IHth. — A meeting of a social character was held at the house of the 

 president, by the kind invitation of himself and Mrs. Bethune-Baker. The Members 

 attended in force, and a very enjoyable evening was spent in an examination of the 

 large collections of Palsearctic and other Lepidopfera, formed in part by the late 

 Dr. Jordan, and in part by Mr. Bethune-Baker himself. 



March 18th, 1901.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a series of CaUimorpha Hera taken in Jersey last 

 year, also living larvae of the same He had found a batch of the eggs on a leaf 

 of ivy, and had succeeded in getting some of the larvae thus far through the winter, 

 and thej were now active. He referred to the habits of various hibernators in tlie 

 spring, and said that he had often seen the larvsB of Arctia Caia in the early spring 

 on posts, &c., in the sunshine, having apparently come up to sun themselves, and 

 they went down again as soon as the sun went in ; he had also seen the pupse of 



