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touched on in the three parts, could he best added to improve and give 

 a greater completion to the whole -work. 



Mr. E. R. Bankes describes a form of Olyphipteryx thrasonella, with 

 "the terminal portion of the forewing more or less completely occupied 

 by a large, brightly metallic, iridescent blotch," as ab. nitens. 



Mr. C. F. Saunders captured a specimen of the rare British species, 

 TrochUium vespiformis, in his garden at Woking on July 28th this year. 



Lord Walsingham and Mr. Bankes are agreed that the specimen 

 supposed to be an unique example of Meessia vinculella is merely a 

 specimen of the allied M. richardsoni, which varies somewhat in its 

 facies in its Dorset locality. 



Dr. Franz Werner gives a list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera 

 of Bosnia and Hercegovina in the 117.x;. Mitth. aus Bosnien und der 

 Hercegovina, Band x., 1907. The list is based on material collected 

 by the author in 1897 and 1903, together with specimens in the 

 B runner collection and in the Landesmuseum in Serajevo, together 

 with published accounts. The list of the latter is very meagre, being 

 confined to the author's own paper in 1897, Redtenbacher's little book 

 on the "Orthoptera of Austria-Hungary," and Burr's "descriptions of 

 three new / 'latycleis " from Hercegovina, published in this journal, vol. xi., 

 1899, but the author appears to be ignorant of Burr's short paper "On 

 Orthoptera collected in S.E. Europe," published in this journal, vol. x., 

 1898, in which a number of localities are mentioned, and including the 

 following species omitted by Dr. Werner ; Aphlebia maculata, Schreb. 

 (Bosnia) ; Stawroderus biguttulus, L. (Bosnia) ; Isophya obtusa, Br. 

 (Bosnia) ; Olynthoscelis transsylvanicus, Fisch. (Bosnia, Hercegovina) ; 

 0. fallax, Fisch. (Hercegovina) ; Decticus albifrons, Fabr. (Herce- 

 govina) ; Nemobius Ivneolatus, Brulle (Bosnia). It is probably quite 

 accidental that Dr. Werner has omitted Decticus albifrons, which is a 

 striking and a common insect near Mostar. Dr. Werner describes 

 two new earwigs, Chelidoura apfelbecki, allied to P. orsinii, and C. reiseri, 

 resembling P. edehtula, and also a new Platycleis, P. hormanni, allied 

 to P. roeselii and /'. modesta. The list is a valuable contribution to 

 our knowledge of the orthoptera of these two provinces, so alike 

 politically, yet so distinct geographically and faunistically. 



8 0CIE TIEli. 



South London Entomological Society. — July 11th, 1907. — 

 Exhibits. — Agkiades bellargus, Polyomjiatus icarus. — Fine-bred 

 specimens by Mr. Rayward, who commented upon their size and 

 brilliancy in spite of the fact that ants were almost constantly in 

 attendance upon the larvae. Euchelia jacob.e.e. — From Dunkirk sand- 

 dunes, one of which was exceedingly pale — Mr. H. Moore. Cedestis 

 fakixatella cocoons. — A lepidopteron, the larva of which lives in the 

 needles of Scotch fir — Mr. Sich. Amorpha populi. — -A gynandro- 

 morphous specimen. Melit.ea aurinia. — Bred series from Kent and 

 Ireland. Smerinthus ocellata, with extreme development of pink 

 coloration of the forewings. Dicranora iucuspis. — Bred specimens 

 from Tilgate. Polyommatus icarus. — -A selection of undersides from 

 North Kent. Dryas paphia and Argynnis adippe. — Fullgrown larvae 

 and pupae. Agriades cokydon. — Living larvae. Cucullia graphalii. 

 — Bred specimens. Boarmia repandata. — An extremely varied series 

 from Leigh Woods, Torquay, Epsom, and North Kent, including 

 extreme forms of var. oonversaria and melanic forms — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman. July 2oth, 1907. — Exhibits. — Arctia villica, a bred series 



