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species was brought to ine by Mr. Gordon Murray, of Waliiior. He took it at 

 St. Margaret's Bay on July 2Uth last. A speciincn is recorded from the same 

 locality as having been taken in 1886 (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiii, p. 168), and others 

 are mentioned by Mp. Burr in liis " British Orthoptera." — Id. 



Neio locality for Exmretopus fonniceticola in Guernsey. — On August 22nd I 

 found a number of specimens of a Coccid, at roots of grass under stones, on the 

 cliffs near Pleinmont Point. I sent them to Mr. R. Newstead, who finds them to 

 be ExcBretopus formiceticola. This insect was first discovered near Bordeaux 

 Harbour, close to a pebble beach, and described by Mr. Newstead in the Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. for September, 1894. This locality has since been completely covered with 

 pebbles from the beanh. It is interesting to find it in a new spot eight miles distant 

 from the place where it was originally found.— W. A. Luff, Broad Road, Guernsey : 

 October I2th, 1901. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History SociEiy : 

 August 8th, 1901. — H. S. Fremlin, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a bred series of Geometra papilionaria from Bexley, 

 Kent, and noted the sensitiveness of its colour, explaining his method of preserva- 

 tion, by stupifying with cyanide and killing with oxalic acid. Mr. Manger, a large 

 light coloured Sphinx Uyustri from Brockley, and a (J of the dragon fly, Mschna 

 cyanea, taken in his garden at New Cross. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a pupa of Macro- 

 glossa siellatariim from Bromley, showing the curious beak, and a short bred series 

 of Agrotis ripce from Dawlish, and referred to the marked difference in shape 

 between the males and females. Mr. Step, Cassida equesfris, bred from the larvae 

 exhibited at a previous meeting, stating that they pupated about July 25th, and 

 emerged about July 31st. Mr. Fremlin, a number of gall-excrescences on the twigs 

 of hornbeam, which had been produced by a species of Aphis. Mr. Edwards, a 

 number of rose leaves disfigured by a carpenter bee ; a discussion took place as to 

 the selection of leaves of particular shrubs, and the shapes of the pieces cut out ; 

 Mr. Turner stated that they regularly burrowed in the soil in the Cactus pots in his 

 greenhouse. Rev. H. Wood, two spiders, Theridion lineatum, females, with egg- 

 cocoons ; the living specimen had killed the preserved one, and appropriated its 

 egg-case, fixing them both together on the lid of the tin. Mr. Step read the Report 

 of the Field Meeting held at Mickleham on June 22nd, which was attended by 

 forty members. 



August 22nd, 1901. — Mr. F. Noad Clarke, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a larva of Graellsia Isabella fi-oni Spain, the only 

 European species of the Attacina group of the Saturnidce, and pointed out the 

 protective nature of its colour resemblance to the twigs of its food, Scotch fir. Mr. 

 F. H. Day, local and rare Coleoptera from Carlisle, including Donacia discolor of 

 all shades and variation ; Hydrothassa /ianjioyerawn-, eighteen specimens by sweeping 

 Caltha palustris ; Bradycellus collaris ; Sphcerites glabratus, one of two specimens 



