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began my butterfly collecting there in the year 18f!3. In either that year or 1861 

 I met with the " Black Veined White," as I then knew it, in such numbers as to 

 make me regard it as quite a common insect, so much so that I did not trouble 

 about taking many examples, being, childlike, more attracted by such brilliant 

 creatures as Vanessa Atalanta. I have a clear recollection of seeing the webs of the 

 larvae on the hawthorn hedges, with their swarming inhabitants. This was in the 

 direction of Radipole, that being the locality in which I did most of my collecting. 

 Unfortunately, the few specimens I did take were destroyed in an accident which 

 befell my infant collection. I left Weymouth in 1865, and never returned, so I 

 have no means of judging whether the butterfly persisted, or whether what I ob- 

 served was merely a casual invasion of the locality. — W. F. JoHNSON, Acton Glebe, 

 Poyntzpass : December 26th, 1902. 



Psncus quadrimnculatus, Latr., near Saltash. — .\f r. McLachlan very kindly named 

 this insect for me, and suggested it was worth recording, as it is always local, and had 

 not been heard of for some time. I now do so with much pleasure. It was dis- 

 lodged on July 1st, 180G, from a bush and fell into the beating ti'ay, when beating 

 for larvce at Millhook, Cornwall. — Gr. C. Bignell, Saltash : December 16th, 1902. 



A change of generic name : Nephopteryx altered to Nephelopteryx. — I learn that 

 the name Nephopteryx, which I liave given to a new genus of Plecoptera {cf. Kla- 

 palek, Fr.,Zur Kenntnis der Neuropteroiden von Ungarn, Bosnien und Herzevogina, 

 in Termeszetrajzi Fiizet., xxv [1902], p. 179), has been long pre-occupied by Zeller 

 in Micro-Lepidoptera. I change, therefore, the name to Nephelopteryx. It is a 

 part of the old Twninpteryx, Pict., which has been divided into Tceniopteryx-, s. str., 

 Rhabdiopteryx, Kip., (Emopteryw, Kip., and Neplielopteryx, Kip., represented by 

 typical species. T. trifasciata, Pict., Rli. liamnlata. Kip., (E. Loewii, Alb., and N. 

 nebidosa, L.— Fr. Klapalek, Karlin, Bohemia : January 6th, 1903. 



Birmingham Entomological Society: November nth, 1902. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethunk-Baker, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. B. C. Bradley showed a series of the bee Pa.nnrgus nrsinus, Qmel., taken 

 at Barmouth this summer. Also specimens of the Syrphids Catabomba pyrastri, 

 L., and selenitica, Mg., one each from Barmouth, in which the usual coloration of 

 the pale markings on the abdomen was reversed, those of pyrastri being yellow and 

 those of sclenitica white ; also var. unicolnr of pyrastri from Moseley. Mr. Wain- 

 wright suggested that perhaps the colors of the spots had been affected in the 

 killing by sulphur, &c. ; but Mr. Bradley thought not. Mr. A. H. Martineau showed 

 various insects: — Vanessa polychloros, L., from Budleigh Salterton, S. Devon, and 

 Melanargia Oalathea, L., from Sidmouth ; also the Fossor, Cerceris arenaria, L., from 

 Budleigh, together with its weevil prey, which it was carrying when captured ; and 

 the Dipteron, Tahaniis autuinnalis, L., which was taken in the house at Budleigh. 

 Mr. Wainwright said he had several times seen large Tabani indoors. Mr. A. D. 

 Imms, dragon-flies -.— Erythromma nnias, Hans., from Yardley Wood, which he said 

 appeared to be a species with restricted distribution, but had already been made 



