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also written by tlie son, and published in the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," the " Transactions of the Entomological Society," the 

 "Annals and Magazine of Isatural History," and elsewhere. The first of this 

 series appeared in 1687 and the last in 1913. Some of his contributions were 

 issued in this Magazine, in 1887, 1888, 1890, 1894, and 1912. His most 

 important papers are a "Monograph of Bornean Lycaenidae,''' P. Z. S. 1895, and 

 one on " Neotropical Lycaenidae,'' P. Z. S. 1907, pp. 666-632, pis. 31-36. 



H. H, Druce was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1884 

 and of the Zoological Society in 1893. His collection of Lycaenidae, etc. has, 

 we believe, passed into the hands of Mr. Joicey, who also purchased the 

 Herbert Druce collection. 



The South London Entomologicai. and Natural History Society : 

 May nth, 1922.— Mr. E. J. Bunnett, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. 0. B. Leechmau, of Purley, was elected a member. 



Mr. H. Main exhibited lliais polyxena, bred, from Hyeres ; and some 

 wingless sand-beetles, Pimelia angulata, from Egypt. Mr. E. Step, a large 

 gall on Populus alba from France, with small Diptera {Cecidomyia sp.) Avhich 

 had emerged, and much smaller hymenopterous inqiiilines ; he also showed 

 larvae of the lichen-feediug Geometer, Cleora lichenaria. Mr. H. Moore, 

 Lepidoptera from New Zealand, including Vanessa gonerilla, Vhrysophanus 

 salustius, etc. Mr. R. Adkin, the " Brown-tail " and "Gold-tail" moths and 

 discussed their names, pointing out that the former should be called Kyymia 

 phaeorrhoea and the latter Leucoma cJu-ysorrhuea. Mr. Staniland, the beetle 

 Melanophila acummata from Suffolk. Mr. Blair, for Mr. Dods, the " stick- 

 insect," Carausius morosus, of an unusual red-brown colour. Mr. Turner, the 

 Brazilian h-yngicovn, Phoejiicocerus f/e;ea«n, which has the antennae furnished 

 with extraordinary long lamellae. 



May 26th, 1922.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Stop exhibited the beetles Necrophorus vespillo and Silpha thoracica 

 from a dead toad at Ockham. Mr. Withycombe, the asparagus beetle Crioceris 

 aspurayi, now common at Enfield. Mr. R. Adkin read a paper, " The Lepi- 

 dopterous Enemies of Man." 



June Sth, 1922.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Step, a Vespa germanica $ , which liad hibernated in a chimney and 

 was misleadingly black to suggest the imposition of the name Tespa carbonaria , 

 sp. nov. Mr. Eaefer, an Acronicta alni, of ^vhich he had found three larvae at 

 Penzance in August 1921. Mr. Withycombe, the rare Chrysopa dorsalis, bred 

 from a pine-feeding larva at Oxshott in 1921. Mr. Step said that the Cleora 

 lichenaria larvae he had shown at a previous meeting had extended their 

 feeding two or three weeks be^'ond the normal time and were found to be 

 ichneumoned except one, which had developed to an imago in the normal 

 period. Mr. Coulson reported the capture of Phryxus livornica at Merton, 



