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Council of go-ahead eutoinologists, who will double in two or three 

 years our membership, raise the standard of work done at our meetings, 

 elevate the discussions to those worthy of a living scientific assembly 

 of experts, and thus increase the force that the Society is able to wield 

 for the advance of our favourite study. 



After writing the above, we, with others, took steps to have a 

 friendly election this year. Eighteen names are before the Fellows, 

 fifteen of whom will be elected by ballot on Wednesday, January 15th, 

 at 8 p.m. The Fellows themselves, being entomologists, are the best 

 judges of the position of the respective candidates as useful entomologists. 

 We would urge all Fellows to select those whom they think are the 

 best men. If there be any candidate whose position in the entomo- 

 logical world is unknown or uncertain, such surely cannot prove a 

 satisfactory member of the Council of a learned Society. Above all 

 w^e appeal to the provincial Fellows to attend the Annual Meeting, 

 and, by taking an independent part in the election, show that they 

 have as keen an appreciation of the true position of entomology in 

 this country, and are as jealous of the honour and success of the 

 Society as are those who, mainly by the convenience of their places of 

 residence, must of necessity largely be called upon to govern it. 



:iE^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Autumnal work at Boscombe. — Both sugar and light failed in this 

 district in the autumn of 1901, and ivy was very little better. The 

 only good insects I took were four Leucania vitellina and one />. 

 albiptmrta, tAvo of the former at sugared trees and two at sugared 

 sunflowers. These latter I find a very attractive bait. — E. B. 

 Robertson, Forest View, Southborne Road, Boscombe. Xoveinbcr 

 11th, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli at CnixaFORD. — I have to record that several 

 Splthhv conrolntli were taken during the past autumn at Chingford. — A. 

 J. Croker, Connaught Road, Chingford. Xucoitbcr loth, 1901. 



Autumnal Lepidoptera at Oxton. — Sjihin.v conculcuU was common 

 during the autumn. On November 9th I bred a 2 Zvnowiim jiorata 

 from ova laid by a ? taken in north Devon, the rest of the brood 

 showing no sign of emerging. The first Asteroacojuis upldiuc occurred 

 in the light traps on the morning of November 5th, and on the ] 1th 

 I had sixteen, then the frost set in, and I have had none since. — E. 

 F. C. Studd, M.A., F.E.S., Oxton, Exeter. Xovewher 19</t, 1901. 



Pcecilocampa populi near Southampton. — Poecilocaiiipa popidi w^as 

 common on the lamps on the night of December 1st in a suburb of 

 Southampton, apparently quite recently emerged. Among the dozen 

 that I boxed was a $ , which laid a large batch of ova. — F. C. 

 WooDFORDE, B.A., F.E.S., IMarket Drayton. Devewhcr 23;v/, 1901. 



Lepidoptera at Marlow in 1901. — Eniitniia polj/chloros was 

 unusually common in the spring, but scarcely seen in the summer. 

 Vanessa to and Paran/c ci/rria were not seen at all. At the end of 

 May and beginning of June Jhipta (niiianilata was almost what the 

 late Mr. Stamton would have called a pest. Leucania stiaininea was 

 common amongst reeds at the end of June, Lithosia tnesoniella and 

 Coreiiiia ijiiailiifasriaria were taken in July and early in August, 



