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the two greatest naturalist-lepidopterists that America has yet 

 produced. 



Our congratulations to Mr. Malcohn Burr, who, on June 23rd, 

 received at tlie University of Oxford, the degree of D.Sc. for research 

 work in entomology. Mr. Burr has made for himself such a world- 

 wide reputation as an orthopterist of the first rank, that the honour is 

 particularly well-deserved. 



Mr. Gillmer describes (Sue. Ent., p. 42) a white aberration (ab. 

 alba) of Geoiiietra papilionaria, also an ab. dom/rata of Larentia 

 lii/jnbrata, and refers the ab. jrifirescens, Ckll., of Eubolia jiliDiibaria, 

 recorded by Porritt from Yorkshire, to the lurUlaria of Borkhausen 

 (Xatur;/., v., p. 62). 



Mr. Malloch adds the diptera, MiltofiraDiiim <iermari, Mg., and 

 Aiiiaurosn)iia flavipcK, Fin., to the British list, the former taken " on a 

 sandy path, near Shotover Hill, in which were a number of burrows 

 of various Aciilmta, on August 7th, 1907," the latter " near Cowley, 

 on May 16th, 1908, by Mr. A. H. Hamm. 



It is with great pleasure that we have to record the capture of 

 Depressaria pntrida, Hb., in Kent. A full account wull appear in our 

 September number. 



Mr. Newbery adds Ocyiim defecta, Muls. et Rey, to the list of 

 British coleoptera. He bases the addition on a single specimen taken 

 by Mr. Eendel among dead leaves in a dry ditch near Tiverton, Devon, 

 in November, 1908. This specimen has been submitted to Capt. 

 Deville, who has compared it with a single specimen taken by himself 

 at Nice. This amount of material for comparison does not appear to 

 be too overwhelming. No doubt Mr. Rendel will get more specimens 

 next November. 



ji^OCIE TIE S. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — May 21th, 1909. — Extreme Aberrations of Pararge egeria. — Dr. 

 Chapman exhibited two very extreme forms of Pararge eyeria, in 

 which the fulvous areas were much enlarged. They were taken at 

 Amelie-les-Bains. Cucullta chamomill.e in London district. — Mr. 

 Edwards and Mr. Carr, living specimens of Cncidlia chainouiillae from 

 south-east London district. T;eniocampa pulverulenta ab. haggarti 

 at Dover. — Mr. Smith, a melanic specimen, ab. hai/i/arti, of Taenio- 

 camj)a pulverulenta (cruda), taken at Dover in April. Larv.e of 

 LucANUs CERVus. — Mr. Edwards, larvae of Lncanns cervus, found in 

 some rotting wooden palings on Shooter's Hill. Melanic specijien of 

 Phragmatobia fuliginosa. — Mr. Newman, an unusually extreme 

 melanic ? of P/iraf/niatnhia fnlifiinom, bred from Sheffield. Rare 

 Coleoptera. — Mr. West (Greenwich), specimens of the rare Coccinellid, 

 Dnlyzia IQ-yiittata, taken in the New Forest by Mr. Ashbj' and him- 

 self, and a series of Casmia fastuosa, taken in some numbers by Mr. 

 H. J. Turner, at Box Hill, on Inula cony^a. 



Entomological Society of London. — Tune 2iid, 1909. — North 

 American Sawfly in London. — ^Mr. Selwyn Image exhibited an 

 example of the North American sawfly. Si rex raudatus, Cresson, bred 

 from a larva found at Highbury in a piece of wood, together with 

 photographs of the larva and its galleries by Mr. Hugh Main. Re- 

 discovered Micro-Lepidopteron from South of France. — Lord 

 Walsingham showed two set examples and pupal cases of Holocacista 



