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of Agriculture, records the capture of vfirinus Sip-phidae at Horsham, Cuckfield, 

 Hytlie, and Kilkenny while here on inilitarj' service. Most of the insects 

 mentioned are common British species, but amongst those which Mr. Curran 

 points out as occurring also in Canada the following additions to Verrall's list 

 of Syrphidae recorded from both Britain and North America (" British Flies," 

 viii, p. 675) may be noted: — Chilosia variabilis Panz., Volucella bomhi/kms h., 

 Eristalis aemorian L., £!. arbustorum L., Merodon equestris F., and Xylota 

 seynis L. — J. E. CoLLiN, Newmarket: April 1920. 



Obituary. — Prof. John Reinhold Sahlbery died at Helsin^fors, Finland, on 

 May 8th, aged 74. He is the author of many papers on North-Palaearclic 

 Coleoptera and Hemiptera, and in later years he described numerous 

 new Coleoptera from his travels in Turkestan and the Mediterranean region. 

 His most important work is the Homoptera of Scandinavia and Finland 

 (1871), which is of permanent value. — Eds. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 March nth, 1920.— Mr. K. G. Blair, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. A. C. Jump, of Wandsworth Common, was elected a member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited aberrations of Fyrameis atalanta with yellow 

 instead of red coloration, and of Vanessa in without eye-spots on the hind 

 wings. Mr. W. J. Kaye, -several striking species of South American Theclidae. 

 INlr. Barnett, series of Satyrus semele showing much aberration in the spotting 

 of the underside of the fore wings; a series of Plebeius aegon underside aber- 

 rations ; and of Polyonntiatus icarus undersides. Mr. A. W. W. Buckstone, 

 the 1919 specimens of the three forms of Ayriades coridon from Shiere, Surrey, 

 and read notes on these races. Mr. L. E. Uunster, underside aberrations of 

 Polyommatus icarus with ab. obsoleta and ab. icarinus. Messrs. Blair and 

 H. Main, living larvae of Corethra sp., Mochlonyx sp., Ochlerotatus nemorosus, 

 and Anopheles bifurcatus, all denizens of water, and made remarks on their 

 habits in captivity. Mr. B. S. Williams, a bred series of the melanic form of 

 Dysstroma truncata from Finchley. Mr. Ily. J. Turner, a large number 

 of Lepidoptera taken in the latter part of 1919 in Jamaica by a member of 

 the Society, Mr. D. Pearson. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Editor of Proceedinys. 



Entomological Society op London: Wednesday, February Mli, 1920. 

 — Comm. J. J. Walker, M.A., B.N., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Miss Winifred E. Brenchley, D.Sc, F.L.S., Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station, Harpenden, Herts ; Messrs. Alfred Ellis Burras, 3 Connaught Road, 

 North End, Portsmouth ; Albert Ernest Hodge, 14 Astonville Street, South- 

 iields, S.W. 18 ; liev. Melville Jones, 16 New Bridge Street, E.C. 4, and Hope 

 Fountain, Box 283, Bulawayo, Rhodesia ; Messrs. George Beddome Curtis 

 Leman, George Curtis Leman, Sydney Curtis Leman, Wynyard, 1-52 West 

 Hill, Putney Heatli, S.W. 15; and Frank Reginald Mason, Oxford, Harpenden, 

 Herts, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



