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and one entirely missing." His further account of how a box "of 

 rare hybrid Saturniids was sent to the United States, carefully packed 

 in a box with a glass lid, so that the contents could been seen, and 

 provided with a label asking the customs' examiners to be careful with 

 them, had the cord cut, the box opened, the cord and label placed 

 inside among the moths, and the box then carefully tied up with 

 string of their own," is pathetic in its exposure of official ignorance. 

 Surely there must be, among the entomologists of Britain and the 

 United States, someone sufiticiently influential to attempt to stop such 

 wanton destruction. 



Both our contemporaries, The Kntotnologist and Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 record the exhibition at the meeting of the South London Ent. Soc, 

 on February 25th, " several A7so«ia</<?.s tages var. taras^ This seems 

 to be something new to the British list, or something new in the way 

 of " skipper " mixtures. 



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The South London EntomoloctIcal and Natural History Society. 

 — March ll?/i, 1909. — Exhibits.— Mr. South exhibited a short series 

 of Addidia degenenuia received from Mr. J. Walker of Torquay, and 

 pointed out that they were lighter in colour than the Portland form. 

 March 26^/i, 1909 — Exhibits : Mr. G. B. Brown exhibited specimens 

 of Eubolia bipimctaria from Branscombe and Dawlish, which exhibited 

 a reddish suffusion compared with specimens coming from Horsley. 

 Mr. Tonge, an underside of Triaena psi, in which the central black 

 spot was produced towards the base as a line. Mr. Bowman, a very 

 pale 5 of Syssia hispidaria from Chingford, and Mr. Coote, ova of 

 the same species, and a 2 specimen of Atdsopteryx aescuLaria. April 

 8th, 1909. Exhibits : Mr. Newman, a living $ of Asteroscopus 

 nubeculosa bred that morning after being four years in the pupal stage. 

 Mr. Main, ova cases of a leaf insect from Ceylon, each containing one 

 ovum. The species was parthogenetic, <? s being rarely produced. 

 Mr. Turner, a series of the delicate Pyrale, (rlgphodes xinnaia, from the 

 Ja River, Caineroons. 



Entomological Society of London. — March 11th, 1909. — Gnan- 

 dromokphous Euchloe. — Mr. G. Meade-Waldo exhibited a gynandro- 

 morphous example of Euchloe carda}iiines, bred from a larva found at 

 Hever, Kent. The wings on the right side showed the <? characters, 

 on the left the ? , the orange apical coloration showing faint traces 

 on the latter as seen in E. etiphenoides $ . Oviposition of Coenobia. — 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten brought for exhibition a stereoscopic photo of the 

 anal segments of Coenobia rtifa 2 , showing the spines. These spines 

 are driven into the dead stems of Jnnciis lamprocarpus making a longi- 

 tudinal slit, they are then opened, and the ovipositor thrust into the 

 pith and the ova deposited in small bunches. Ovipositor and spines 

 are then withdrawn, and the cut, closing up, is hardly visible. 

 Aberrant form of Chrysophanus hippothoe, L. — Mr. W, Schmassinan, 

 a curiously marked ? of Chrysophanns hippothoe caught on July 22nd, 

 1908, at Goschenen. The black spots, forming the marginal row on 

 the underside of the two forewings and one of the hindwings, were 



