2(54 [November, 



from Norfolk, Botys Jfavalis, C/iri/soioxnm octomacidatuvi, and C. festirxm. 

 Sjrpbid flies parasitic in the nests of bees and wnsps, from Benchy Head, 

 exliibited by Mr. Nicholson. Galls on leaves of Ballota mijra and Artemisia 

 vulgaris, and on flower-heads of Aster tripolium from Essex. Second broods of 

 Macroc/lossa stellatarnm were reported by Messrs. Riches and Robbins, and of 

 Porthesia similis by Mr. Nicholson. Mr. Horn remarked that larvae of Ayrotis 

 eef/etuin were doing great damage to potatoes and cabbages in the Rouiford 

 district. 



Paper read : — " Notes from Eastbourne and district," by Mr. Nicholson. — 

 H. J. BuKKiLL, 3Iin. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: Wednesday, October -^th, 1921. — 

 The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothscuild, M.A., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair, 



The President announced that owing to the illness of Mr. TI. Rowland 

 Brown, M.A., Dr. H. Eltriiigham, M.A.., F.Z.S., had kindly consented to act as 

 Secretary for the remainder of the session. 



The Treasurer called attention to the portraits of the Rev. W. Kirby and 

 of Mr. W. Spence tliat had been bequeathed to the Society by the late 

 Dr. Longstaff". A vote of thanks to Mr. J. J. Joicey, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., 

 for his generous gift of a lantern to the Society, was passed unanimously. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society: — Messrs. Charles L. 

 Fry, 1621 Vallejo St., San Francisco, California; William F. N. Greenwood, 

 Lautoka, Fiji; Henry W. Dobson, 14/16 Finkle St., Kendal; Kalidos D. Shroft", 

 Nahani, Surat, India ; Arnold Roebuck, Edgmond, Newport, Salop ; the Rev. 

 J. Wesley Hunt, 116 Cross St., Kroonstadt, Orange Free State; and Miss Amy 

 Castle, Assistant Entomologist, Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand. 



Mr. E. E. Green, F.Z.S., communicated an extract from his journal on the 

 habits of the bee Atithidium manicatum. Mr. T. L. H. Grosvenor exhibited 

 some British species of Zygaena and remarked on the results of crossing certain 

 species and varieties. Dr. Cockayne commented on the question of the identity 

 of Zygaena tutti. Prof. E. B. Poulton exhibited an example of Danaida clv.y- 

 sippus that had been captured and subsequently rejected by a young shrike in 

 South Africa; he also exhibited, on behalf of Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, F.R.S., a 

 collection of terrestrial insects taken from the stomach of a trout in Devon- 

 shire, including, among others, 41 species of Coleoptera. Mr. M. E. Mosely 

 e.xpressed surprise that such a large amount of surface-food had been taken. 



The following papers were read : - " On Boreus hyemalis," by Mr. C. L. 

 Withycombe ; " Some apparently new S. African Genera and Species of the 

 family Pyralidae" by Mr. A. T. J. Janse ; " The African Species of the Genua 

 Neptis Fab.," by Dr. H. Eltriugham, M.A., F.Z.S. ; ''The number of Joints in 

 the Antennae of IluUplidae and Faussidae (Coleoptera)," by Mr. T. G. Sloan ; 

 " Observations in the Structure of some Homoneura, including the Diagnosis 

 of two new Families of Lepidoptera," by Dr. A. Jefferis Turner, F.E.S. 

 Mr. A. T. J. Janse gave an account, illustrated with lantern-slides, on 

 methods of coUectinof insects when travellin<>: in S. Africa. 



