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and, as such a variety is apparently unknown in Britain, it seems desirable to record 

 it. With the exception of an extremely faint trace of metallic coloration (scarcely 

 discernable with the naked eye) at the anterior angles of the thorax, the beetle 

 much resembles C. glabratun, Payk., in colour. There is, however, no doubt as to 

 its being C. nemoraUs, and my friend, Mr. E. A. Newbery, quite agrees with me in 

 its determination. The head and thorax are duller than is usual, and its general 

 aspect is less robust and more parallel than in ordinary examples of the species. 

 The insect is a male, 22 mm. in length, and in measurement, at their widest part, its 

 elytra prove to be just half a millimetre narrower tJian those of a normal i example 

 of the same length ; the thorax is also proportionate The beetle was found briskly 

 walking on the bank of a Dartmoor stream some 16 miles from Plymouth —J. H. 

 Keys, 6, Seymour Terrace, Plymouth : Jnne \2,th, 1903. 



A correction. — We take the earliest ojiporl unity of stating that the announce- 

 ment of the death of Dr. F. Mkinert (c/. ante p. 1.53) was due to a misapprehension 

 on our part. We tender him our sincere apologies, and at the same time congratu- 

 late him on having recently celebrated his 70th birthday. ^Eds. 



Societies. 



Birmingham Entomological Society: May ISM, 1903. — Mr. Q-. T. 

 Bethune- Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a fine series of Bomhi/Iius disco/or, Mik, from 

 Ventnor, Tsle of Wight, where they were taken last April. All the males, and 

 they chiefly consisted of that sex, were taken in one small spot, though he believes 

 they were lo be found all over the Island at the time. Mr. J. T. Fountain 

 showed a series of Dasi/chira pudihunda, L., bred from a female found at Sutton 

 Coldfield last year ; also a series of Treniocampa mnnda, Esp., from Yorkshire, bred ; 

 one of them was reddish in colour, and the black spots were represented by a 

 reddish blotch on either wing, the pair of dots being only just discernible; also a 

 few butterflies taken by a soldier friend in Sierra Leone. Mr. Bethune-Baker 

 exhibited another boxful of i^ierra Leone Lycmiiidic, including some new species. — 

 CoLBKAN J. Wainwright, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 April 9th, 1903.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a short series of Phigalia pedaria, bred from York 

 larv£e, and remarked particularly on the intensely black coloration which had been 

 developed i'l both sexes. Mr. Turner, an example of the v. frapezaria of Crocallis 

 elinguaria from Brockley, and pointed out the very dark central band, its distin- 

 guishing cliaractcr. Also a short series of Cleora (ilabraria from the New Forest, and 

 remarked that the species had i*ecently been taken in N. Devon by Mr. Tunaley. 



