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I^y him after many months' cxpei'ience. These were of waxed card1)oard, and he 

 stated that the food-phint kept well in them. Mr. Adkin, a form of Nola albu- 

 lalis, in which the dark brown band was rediiced to a dark narrow stripe only, 

 giving a much more delicate appearance to the insect. Mr. W. J. Kaye, several 

 Syntomid species of the genus Pseudosphex, and the wasp models which they so 

 closely mimicked, in build, shape of antennae, legs, colour, &c. Mr. Sheldon, 

 the two specimens of a Noctuid, about whicli much discussion as to their 

 identity arose many years ago, and which were named Agrotis helvetina. They 

 are now regarded as pale putty-coloui-ed examples of Graphiphora augur. Mr. 

 Blenkarn, a pale xanthic foi-m of Epinephele tithonus, from the Isle of Wight, 

 and a fine dark clouded example of Camptogramma bilineata from the same 

 locality. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, March 1st, 1911. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker in the Chair. 



Messrs. Lionel Armstrong, Government Entomologist to the Gold Coast, 

 Gold Coast, West Africa ; J. Piatt Barrett, 30, Endwell Eoad, New Cross, S.E. ; 

 Rev. Henry William Brutzer, B.A., Great Bowden Vicarage, Market Har- 

 boi'ough ; Messrs. P. P. Gi-aves, Club de Constantinople, Constantinople ; Thien 

 Cheng Kimg, Gviardian Superintendent of Chinese Students in British India, 

 cjo The Curator, Mysore Government Museum, Bangalore, India; Eev. A. Miles 

 Moss, Helm, Windermere ; and Dr. Cuthbert F. Selous, M.D., M.E.C.S., L.E.C.P., 

 Agra, Barton-on-Sea, New Milton, Hants, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. Nicholson showed six specimens of Cholera fuliginosa, Er., an addition 

 to the list of British beetles, from Alphington, Devon. This species closely 

 resembles C. nigrita, Er., with which it is mixed in several collections, and it is 

 probably widely distribiited in tliis coimtry Mr. Dollman lias taken it at 

 Harrow, Mr. Donisthorpe at Hartlepool, Mr. Taylor in the Isle of Wight, and 

 it is also in the F. Bates Collection. Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited some sticks 

 (the off-shoots of birch stumps) containing larvae of Sesia culiciformis ; also 

 sticks of Salix capraea containing larvae of S. bemheciformis, one of these 

 showing the cap formed over the hole prepared for emergence. This species is 

 not usually supposed to form a cap. The larvae were not, as is generally 

 thought, confined to living wood, some of those exhibited being in dead twigs ' 

 Also a living specimen of S. culiciformis, a species which the exhibitor remarked 

 was easily forced. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a specimen of Erebia ceto which 

 had been swept from the herbage without its head, which was probably held 

 fast by a spider ; nine hoiu's after capture this insect had still been capable of 

 fluttering strongly. He also exhibited a specimen of Erebia ligea v. adyte, with 

 a half-developed right hing-wing ; a specimen of E. eriphyle with no left hind- 

 wing, and a Melitaea varia with no right hind-wing ; in the two latter there 

 was no trace of the wing having ever been developed Mr. A. Bacot communi- 

 cated a note confirming the Hon. N. C. Rothschild's distinction between Cteno- 

 cephalus canis find C. felis, both of >vhich he had bred from the egg. He gave 

 measurements showing the difference in size and shape between the ova of the 



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