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George Henry Verrall. — It is with sincero regret that we announce the 

 death, on September 16th, in his sixty-fourth year, of Mr. G. H. Verrall, the 

 eminent Dipterist, and a former President of the Entomological Society of 

 London. A full account of liis life and Entomological work will be given in 

 oiu" November number. 



Societies. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, July 2~th, 1911.— Mr. E. Adkin, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Kenneth J. Blair, of Highgate, N., was elected a Member. 



Mr. West exhibited numerovis interesting captures in the New Forest, 

 including ^geria spheciformis, a suffused specimen of Anthrocera trifolii, a short 

 series of Cicadetta montana, including the rarely met with ?, and the local 

 Heteropteron, Eysarcoris seneus. Mr. Stanley Edwards, the very handsome 

 Lycsenid, Stalachtis evelina, and several beautiful species of the genus Meso- 

 semia (Lemonimse). Mr. E. Adkin, a pair of Endromis versicolor, reared this 

 year from ova deposited in 1908, thus three years in pupa. Mr. Blenkarn, a 

 teratological example of Carabus nemoralis, in which the tibia of the right fore- 

 leg was divided into three, each terminating in perfect tarsi and claws ; two 

 specimens of the rare Helophorus tuberculatus and Galerucella fergussoni, from 

 Lanarkshire ; and the curious Hemipteron, Ledra aurita, from West Wickham, 

 on oak. Mr. Jager, a Nematoid worm, which had emerged from the larva of a 

 Cucullia. Mr. Sperring, a nvunber of aberrations of Lepidoptera, including a 

 smoky suffused specimen of Cosniotriche potatoria, from Benfleet, a seven 

 spotted Anthrocera filipendulse, a Callimorpha dominula with very dark hind- 

 wings and ill-developed scaling, two specimens of Arctia caja, one having 

 asymmetrical markings and the other with yellow hind-wings, and a nrunber of 

 Abraxas grossulariata considerably darker than normal specimens, many having 

 the black massed mainly towards the outer margin. He called attention to the 

 fact that most of tlie bred al^crrations were either early or late emergences of 

 the brood. 



Thursday, August 10th, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Jager exhibited a specimen of the large spider, Mygale avicularia, sent 

 to him from India, and communicated notes on its habits. He also showed a 

 specimen of a scorpion from the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus, and described 

 its habits. Mr. West (Greenwich), a series of Asenium striatum and var. agreste 

 from the New Forest ; a ^ and 2 ? s of the introdviced Monohammus sartor, fx'om 

 Deptford; Acocephalus tricinctus, a recent addition to the British List, from 

 Great Yarmouth, with Plagiognathus alhipennis, obtained from Artemisia mari- 

 tima, and Arxopus pulchellus and Chlorina glaucescens, all from the same place. 

 Mr. Carr, the two grasshoppers, Stenohothrus bicolor and Platycleis brachyptera, 

 from Oxshott. Mr. Blenkarn, Quedius talparum (vexans), from moles' nests in 

 the Isle of Wight, and a dovible banded form of Noctua rubi from Beckenham. 



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