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Abundance of Exapnfe conqehttella Clerck at HuddiTiifield. — This species 

 opciirred in extraordiiiar}^ abundance all over the Iliiddei'sfield district in 

 Octiiber last. Years ago we used to regard it 8S quite a moorland insect, hut 

 for several seasons past it has gradually increased in numbers quite near the 

 town. Ivast j'ear it far exceeded anything we had seen before, and could 

 scarcely be unnoticed even by non-entomologists who had the least observation 

 for such things. Tt could be seen on the wing even in the town itself, and in 

 my own garden, which is only about a mile away, raiglit have been observed 

 flving about in numbers, when the sun was shining, at almost any time 

 throughout October. Close to the town, and all around it wherever I went, it 

 was flying- everywhere, and in some of the near villages, probably all of them, 

 live or six mil«s away, but far from the moors, it was absolutely in thousands 

 in the daytime, and also in the evenings at the lamps and outside the shop 

 windows, attracted by the lights. When one considers that only the males are 

 sven on the wing, and that the females probably occur in equal quantity^ 

 altliough they are very rarely observed, one may form some idea of the 

 immense numbers there must have been. The larvae must, of course, have fed 

 on some other plant than bilberry (and, I believe, also ling), on which they 

 feed on the moors, but what it was I have no idea. — Gko. T. Porbitt, Elm 

 Lea, Uulton, Hudderstield : January Sth, 1920. 



Thk South London Entomological and Natuhai, Histouy Socikty: 

 Nocembtr ''lltfi, 1919. — Mr. iStanlky Edwards, E.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Annual Exhibition. — Mr. S. G. Castle-Russell exhibited aberrations of the 

 following British Lepidoptera : Drijas paiihia, rayed and suffused, varied 

 valesina form,'*, intermediate, bleached, blue shade below, etc. ; Liinenitis sibilUi 

 ab. niyrina underside ; yellow-tipped Eiichlae cardannnes ; Brenthis euphrosytief 

 rayed, cream-coloured, etc. ; (Joenonympha panipliilus, a very pale series ; 

 Aphantapus hyj>erantus, a long series of bred ab. kmceolata ; C. tiphon, long 

 series of aberrations, pale, ab. lanceolata ; Celastrina aryiolus, a perfect gynan- 

 drouiorph and colour forms ; Ayriades coridon, a perfect gynandromorph, 

 ab. synyrajiha, ab. striata, ab. obao/eta, etc. ; I'lebeius aeyun, 80 aberrations, iib. 

 striata, ab. obsoleta, etc., and 40 females with one wing shot with male blue 

 coloration and the smaller ; all taken or bred in the last two or three seasons. 

 Ml'. T. H. Grosveuor, a pair of Aitacus edwardsi from the Khasia lliils. 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, a series of Lomaspilis viaryinata from Finchley, show ing 

 an extreme range of variation. Mr. E. E. Green, (1) I'ajnlio biauor, taken at 

 Camberley ; (2) a series of Paruscotia fuliyinaria, taken at light at Camberley ; 

 (3) two Ayrvtis saucia ab. maryaritosa, taken at sugar; (4) aberrations of 

 Lnperina testacea and Ilimera jjefmaria ; (5) Stephanitis rkododendri, an intro- 

 duced pest of Rhododendrons; (0) the rare Ileuiipteron Coriztis maculatua 

 from birch ; and (7) a contrivance of an iron ring and muslin for covering; 

 cylinder.-, jars, etc., for breeding-. Mr. A. E. Tonge, an Antorplia pvpuli 

 entirely devoid of marking ; and the v«ry rare Xocluid Cloauthu pulyodoii 



