166 the entomologist's record. 



of preservation. The capture is recorded in the Entomologist, 1874, 

 p. 69, but without details. [Of course these are not bellus, Gerh., 

 which is a much more strongly developed form, and has three orange 

 spots, not one. (See Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts., ii., p. 237). — Ed.] 



Edwardsia w-album.. — Bury St. Edmunds, sometimes abundant. 

 In spite of the orange spot at the anal angle of hindwing upper side being 

 noted in books as normal, but one of the fourteen upper sides show 

 it. One specimen from Suffolk has on the underside of hindwing 

 only the main long line without the W. This is distinctive of 

 ab. butlerowi, Kroul. 



Strymon pruni. — One ? with four orange spots on upper side of 

 forewings, and complete row of six orange spots on hindwing. 



Itiiralis betulae. — One enormous $ quite If inch in expanse, and 

 as large, if not larger, than the ordinary size of the females ; so large 

 that the abdomen is quite as large as that of a female. 



Rumicia phlaeas. — A specimen with bright copper base to hindwings. 



Plebeius aegon. — From Tuddenham, Suffolk. All fine and bright ; 

 some females suffused with blue. One female with bright orange spots 

 on margins of all wings, upper side. 



Polyommatus teams. — At Sparham, Norfolk. I notice that, of the 

 basal spots on underside of forewings, the upper is generally the most 

 distinct. Several have the lower of these spots without the black 

 centre, and almost obsolete, while there is one ab. icarinus. 



Agriades corydon. — Bury St. Edmunds, Devil's Dyke, Newmarket. 

 One male, the edges of all wings suffused ochreous, from Devil's Dyke. 



Cupido minima. — Taken at Mildenhall, Suffolk. 



Celastrina drgiolus. — Gynandromorph ; right $ , left $ . Bury 

 St. Edmunds, 1902 (2nd brood). 



Notodonta torva. — Ova found on Balsam Poplar in Norfolk, 1882. 

 Only one emerged, about July 8th, 1883. The specimen is still 

 in Mr. Norgate's collection. Superficially it looks amazingly like 

 N. trepida, but with dark hindwings. 



Mellinia ocellaris. — Male, at sugar. September 26th, 1895. 

 Bury St. Edmunds. 



International Entomological Congress in 1908. 



The following circular letter, setting forth the desirability of holding 

 an International Entomological Congress in 1908, has been forwarded 

 to the leading Entomological Societies throughout the world from the 

 Zoological Museum, Tring : 



" Sir,— The undersigned Entomologists consider it opportune to organise an 

 International Congress of Entomology, to meet for the first time in 1908. In order 

 to render the Congress a success the moral support by the Entomological Societies 

 is an absolute necessity for the undertaking, and we therefore write to solicit the 

 kind co-operation of the Officers and Eellows of the Entomological Society of London, 

 France, Belgium, etc., as the case may be. Should the Council, as we venture to 

 hope, favour our plan, we beg the Hon. Secretaiy to read at the next meeting, 

 and to publish in the Proceedings, the note here appended, a similar note being 

 sent to the various Entomological Societies abroad, 



Yours faithfully, 

 Chr. Aurivillius, E. L. Bouvier, I. Bolivar, L. Bedel, T. Becker, M. Bezzi, P. 

 Bachmetjew, S. Bengtssen, J. C. Bradley, W. Beutemniiller, C. J. S. Bethune, 

 T. A. Chapman, G. H. Carpenter, T. D. Cockerell, Ph. P. Calvert, K. Daniel, 

 F. A. Dixey, W. L. Distant, E. C. Van Dyke, H. Druce, Ed. Everts, A. Forel, J. 

 Fletcher, H. C. Fall, L. Ganglbauer, A. Giard, R. Gestro, F. Du Cane Godman, 



