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Mr. Sieh exhibited LithoroUetis hortella ;iiid L. sylvclla, and noted their 

 specific characters and ni;irkin,y's. Mr. Russell, a Phryxiis livornica from Piirley, 

 three autumn-bred specimens of Diacrisia sanio (russula) from Grange-over- 

 Sands, and recorded a Bitliys quercils, taken on September 1st. Mr. E-. Adkin, a 

 series of Eupithecia suhfulvata, bred from ova laid by a ? taken at Chiswick. 

 Mr. Moore, a large Cicada taken on a window at Wanstead, and read notes on a 

 Silphid beetle, from the Orange River Colony, which in life bore an abundant 

 waxy seci'etion on its elytra. Mr. Sheldon, a long and fine series of Colias nastes, 

 var. iverdandi, taken by him in Lapland. Mr. Newman, a long and varied series 

 of bred Amorpha populi, with three second-brood examples. Mr. Blair, living <? 

 and $ specimens of the " stick " insect, known as Dixippus morosus, and 

 imagines of the rare Neuropterous insect, Boreus hyemalis. Mr. Baumann, a fine 

 melanic form of Acidalia virgularia from Lewisham. Mr. Curwen, series of 

 Colias palieno, C. phicomone, C. hyale, and C. edusa from the Swiss Alps, and also 

 melanic forms of Cidaria immanata, Hypsipetes sordidata, and Mania maura. 

 Mr. Blenkarn, examples of three species of Coleoptera recently recognised as 

 British, viz., Haliplus heydeni, H. inimaculatiis,Mi(\ Gabrlus stipes, from the Cots- 

 wolds, Lowestoft, and Beekenham respectively. Mr. Bvickstone, a very remark- 

 able Brenthis sclene from Wanborotigh, with almost all the usual markings 

 absent on the uppersidc. — Ht. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, October ISth, 1911. — The 

 Rev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr. Sidney 

 Howard Cotton, 1a, Chesterfield Street, Mayfair; Captain J. J. Jacobs, R.E., 2, 

 Southport Street, Gibraltar ; Mr. Kuuui Khunan, M.A., Assistant Entomologist 

 to the Govermnent of Mysore, Bangalore, South India ; Dr. Ivan Clarkson 

 Maclean, M.D., B.Sc, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 28, Hill Street, Knightsbridge, S.W. ; 

 Mr. Frank Taylor, The Technological Musemn, Sydney, New South Wales. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited a pair of each of the following species — Tachyris 

 melania, Fabr., T. celestina and Catophaga ega, Boisd., and remarked that 

 Fabricius's type was preserved in the Banksian Cabinet, where it may still be 

 seen, and that Mr. G. A. Waterhouse liad now sent home sj)ecimens which are 

 undoubtedly of the species described by Fabricius and represented by Donovan, 

 which is not a Catophaga allied to ega or paulina, but a Tachyris belonging to 

 the group which contains T. celestina and T. nero. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a living- 

 larva of Colias nastes, var. werdandi, which he had bred from an oviun deposited 

 by a ? captured at Abisko in Swedish Lapland ; the natural food-plant is 

 Astragalus alpinus, L., but in captivity the larva fed upon white clover. Mr. W. 

 J. Lucas, two specimens of Nemoptera bipennis, Illig. {lusitanica. Leach), taken 

 by Mr. A. H. Jones, one in the Cork woods at Almoraima, Spain, on May 5th, 

 1911, and the other at Linea, Gibraltar, on the 28th. Also a specimen of Lertha 

 harbara, Klug, taken by Mr. H. Powell at Aflou, Oran, Algeria, on June 30th, 

 1911. Mr. W. J. Liicas also, a large specimen of Sirex noctilio, taken by himself 

 at Leith Hill, Surrey, walking on the road, on September 8th, 1911. Mr. H. St. 



