110 CMay, 



vviLli a printed label " Epping " ; a ? , apparently older than, and not in as good 

 condition as the other, "From J. Jenner Weir's collection. May 21)th, 1894" 

 (C.W.D.). 



3Iicrodonta bicolora,!!. — A pair from " Killarnej " ; the c? has a MS. label 

 " Bouchard," the $ bears a printed label (apparently cut out of a sale catalogue) 

 " Bouchard, Killarney, July, 1864." 



Closfera reclusa, W. V. — A striking aberration, of large size, the ground colour 

 uniform dark chocolate-brown, without markings except the pale transverse lines, 

 which are clear and well-marked. " From Mr. Ross." (C.W.D.). 



Macrogaster arundinis, H. — A good series, including some exceedingly large 

 i? specimens from " Whittlesea Mere." 



Hepialus hectus, L. — A fine $ aberration, with the usual silvery markings 

 occupying more than half the area of fore-wings. " Inverai'y " at side. 



Drepana sicula, L. — Fifteen examples, all apparently bred ; labelled " Leigh 

 Wood, Bristol," at side. 



(7'o he continued). 



Aorangi, Lonsdale Road, 

 Summertown, Oxford : 

 March, 1909. 



A few additions to the list of Coleoptera of Lundy Island. — During January 

 last I received a small bag of damp moss from Lundy whicli contained the following 

 beetles not before recorded from the island : — Oligota atomaria, Er. ; Stilicus 

 orbiciilatus, Er. ; Evsesthetus leeoiusctilus, Mann. (Mr. Tomlin and I took both the 

 other members of the genus in April, 190(3) ; Stenus declaratus, Er. — Norman H. 

 Joy, Bradfield, Berks. : April Joth, 1909. 



Adrastus Umhatus of British Collections. — With regard to Mr. Newbery's note 

 on the Adrastus limbatiis of British Collections Canted, p. 31), it was pointed out 

 as long ago as 1893 by the Rev. H. S. Grorham (Entom., 1893, p. 14) that our insect 

 was A. pollens, Er. In the last European Catalogue, 1906, A. nitidulus, Marsh., Ent 

 Brit., I, 1802, p. 380, is first given as a synonym of A. limbatus, F., and then as 

 a good species, of which joaiZsn*, Er., is treated as an aberration. — Hoeace Donis- 

 THOBPE, 58, Kensington Mansions, London, 8.W. : April Tth, 1909. 



^jjfiijtiijs. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, March lUh, 1909.— Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. West (of Greenwicli) exhibited another section of the Society's reference 

 collection, which he had remounted and arranged. Mr. South, a short series of 

 Acidalia degeneraria received from Mr. J. Walker, of Torquay, and pointed out 



