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andrenxformis from North Kent, &c. Mr. Barrett, imagines from a speeies of pro- 

 cessionary caterpillar which occurs commonly on the pine trees of Sicily, and a 

 number of species of Lepidoptera found in his garden in Brockley. Mr. Prall, 

 dwarf specimens of Agriodes bellargus and Polynmmatus icarus, with unusually 

 large examples of Vanessa atalanta and Celastriua argioJus. Mr. Joy, a series of 

 Cyclopides palfcmon bred from ova, Lincolnshire. Mr. Brown, a curiously banded 

 form of Cgmatophora fluctitosa. Mr. Carr, examples of C. fJuctuosa and C. duplaris, 

 and a series of Boarmia repandata with v. conversaria from the Wye Valley. 

 Mr. Cowham, a white specimen of Rnmia crata^gata. Mr. Sich, a pair of the rare 

 Coleophora chalcogrammella taken at Richmond on August 14th, 1909. Mr. Turner 

 read a paper on "Our Authorities," and exhibited a number of volumes referred to 

 published in the first half of the nineteenth century. — Hy. J. Tubneb, Hon. 

 Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October 6th, 1909. — 

 Dr. F. A. DiXET, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hugh Scott, B. A., Trinity College, and the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, 

 and Mr. Carlton C. Goudey, B.Sc , Uganda, British East Africa, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Sir George Hampson brought for exhibition the unique example of a Noctuid 

 moth new to science captured in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen by Mr. E. G. 

 Esson, and presented to the National Collection by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 

 It would be necessary, he said, to constitute a new genus for it, as it presented 

 characters not known to exist in allied species. Mr. A. H. Jones, examples of 

 Melitsea deione from La Grave, and aberrant forms of M. didyma from Digne, taken 

 in July last. This is the first record of the former species occurring so far north in 

 the French Alps, and it is noteworthy that the specimens showed a nearer afEnity 

 to the meridional form than to the var. berisalensis of the Rhone Valley in Switzer- 

 land. Mr. G. G. Dudgeon, a case containing examples of new and little-known 

 butterflies from West Africa, together with notes and descriptions. Professor 

 T. Hudson Beai-e, specimens of the local and rare Trechus rlvidaris, Gyll., taken at 

 Wicken Fen on September 15th, 1909 : the only examples which have been taken 

 for many years were two, captured by the late Mr. Chitty, at the same locality ; 

 also specimens of Pseudopsis sulcata, Newm., taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, in 

 hay-stack refuse, in August last. This genus and species were originally described 

 by Newman on specimens taken in the Isle of Wight, and the insect has never been 

 recorded from the island since that date until the present capture. Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe, examples of the following : — (aj l^ychius polylineatus,Qevin., taken at 

 Ditchliiig by Mr. Dollman and himself on September 9th ; CbJ Trechus rivularis, 

 Gyll., taken as above ; (cj the rare Dipteron Meigenia floralis. Fall., also Phyto- 

 decta pallida, bred from larvos taken at Chilworth in July last, with the pupa case 

 on the larval skin of the beetle ; fdj the following Braconidce : Euphorus bistigma- 

 ticus, Morley (n.s. g type), bred from a Formica rtifa nest from Weybridge, June 

 15th, 1909, $ ? taken hovering over ants on F. rufa nests at Weybridge, July 7th, 

 and Bewdley Forest, July 21st, all of this year; (ej Spilomma falconivibrans, 



