146 the entomologist's record. 



as is painfully evident should one have occasion to compare current 

 year captures of Erebias with the specimens at South Kensington. — 

 R. W. Prideaux. May 29th, 1907. 



Further Notes on Thecla ilicis. — Until the last moult the larvae 

 are reddish-brown, closely resembling the bud-scales and stipules of 

 the oak ; finally, however, they become bright apple-green, with 

 pinkish-brown sides, this colour gradually giving place to the green 

 colour ; the head is black. On ceasing to feed, the larva becomes a 

 dingy, mottled, flesh-coloured brown tint ; in the present case they 

 left their foodplant for pupation on the sides and top of their cage. 

 The pupa is secured by a silk belt ; it is flesh-coloured brown in tint, 

 freckled with dark brown specks, and the abdominal and dorsal areas 

 are covered with pale, rather closely-set bristles. Time, from hatching 

 until pupation, 43 days ; the cage being kept in a dwelling-room 

 artificially warmed in cold weather. — Ibid. 



URRENT NOTES. 



It is with the greatest regret that we hear of the premature death 

 of our esteemed colleague, Mr. Louis Naniot, of the Entomological 

 Society of Namur. With Mr. Lambillion he has worked to make this 

 Society a success, and has seen a comparatively powerful organisation 

 develop from the seed so carefully sown some eleven years ago. The 

 work he has done will largely live again in that done by the younger 

 members, whom he has helped so much to educate in scientific 

 methods. 



Mr. G. C. Champion adds (Ent. Mo. Mag.) Aleochara discipennis, 

 Muls. and Rey, to the British fauna, from an example taken in sheep- 

 droppings at Queendown Warren, near Chatham, on August 20th, 1906. 

 It is like a small A. fuscipes, but with antennae as in A. lanuginosa. 

 Mr. E. A. Newbery adds Enicmus fungicola, Thorns., to the British list 

 on the strength of examples taken by Mr. Britten at Edenhall on May 

 13th, 1906, in dry fungi. Mr. Champion also records it from Aviemore, 

 and Mr. Tomlin has taken it on Cannock Chase. 



The Proceedings of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society (1906-7) have just been published, and contain a most 

 interesting series of papers, notes, etc., on the various branches of 

 Natural History. The entomological papers are "Notes on the Butter- 

 flies of Saskatchewan," by A. J. Croker and H. J. Turner ; " The 

 occurrence of Tortrix pronubana in Britain," by R. Adkin. Reports 

 of Field Meetings — "At Wisley Ponds," " Ranmore Common," 

 " Leith Hill," " Horsley," and " Oxshott." There is also a full and 

 interesting report of the Society's " Exhibition," held on March 10th, 

 1906, and the " Presidential Address," by Mr. R. Adkin, the main 

 portion of which is occupied by " Some thoughts on the probability of 

 the abundance of certain species of Lepidoptera in 1906 being due to 

 immigration, and its possible effect on our insect fauna." This contains 

 some thoughtful remarks, and gives food for reflection — Phryxus 

 livomica, Pyrameis cardui, Heliothis peltigera, Laphygma exigua, being 

 the species chiefly dealt with. The illustrations are delightful, two 

 on " Protective Resemblance," by Mr. Lyle and Mr. Step, are particu- 

 larly good, whilst with egg- batches of Aporia crataegi and Pachetra 

 leucophaea, Mr. Tonge excels himself. His photographs, too, of 



