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myself, in this locality this season. — Joseph Anderson, Chichester. 

 October 26th, 1909. 



Agrius coNvoLVULi AT Chichester. — An Ac/rius concolvuli was 

 brought to me alive on October 18th. It is a small specimen, 

 measuring under 4in. from tip to tip of primaries. — Joseph Anderson. 



Leucania l-album at Eastbourne. — I have much pleasure in 

 recording the capture of a 5 specimen of the above-named species on 

 October 14th, at ivy. I have obtained a few ova, which, up to the 

 present (26th inst ), have not hatched. — Edwin P. Sharp, 1, Bedford 

 Well Road, Eastbourne. (Jctoher 26th, 1909. 



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Mr. Schnepf records {Int. Ent. Zeits., p. 160) the occurrence of an 

 imago of Limenitis sibi/lla with larval head. In the same paper 

 (p. 159), Mr. Dziurzynski records a gynandromorph of Bupaliis 

 piniariiis, at Perchtoldsdorf, in June last, the right side with male 

 antennae and wings, the left side female. 



It hardly seems possible that it is 18 years ago since we helped the 

 City of London Entomological Society to publish its first Transactiuns 

 for the year 1891, but we have just received vol. xviii, for the year 

 1908, and it gives a strong hint as to the time that has passed since 

 then. We have to congratulate the Society on its evidently sound and 

 sti-ong financial position, on the excellent paper by Mr. Prout on 

 " Cidaria tniiicata and <.'. citrata {iiiniicaiota)," as well as that by Dr. 

 Hodgson on "The notes on the effect of climatic conditions on sexual 

 dimorphism." 



The obituary notice of the late Mr. J. A. Clark (accompanied 

 as it is by an excellent photograph), strikes a sympathetic note in our 

 own mind, for, whatever others may have done for the Society, 

 Mr. Clark was the man to whom the Society has owed most, and the 

 writer, who was the other member of the deputation that Avaited on 

 Lord Avebury (then Sir John Lubbock) at the House of Commons 

 (mentioned on p. 66), will not readily forget his eager excitement 

 when the question of our getting rooms was being discussed, although 

 most of the talking was left to the writer. We were hardly pressed in 

 those days, and Mr. Hanbury deserves all the thanks so freely accorded 

 in helping us out of our then difficulties. 



In turning over the volume one is somewhat struck, and perhaps a 

 little amused, at the mixture of what we may term the " old world " 

 and " new world " synonymy found there, and, in the case of some of 

 the latter names, we feel no shame in acknowledging that they are 

 quite new to us. On the other hand, and apart from the misspelling 

 of common words which one may safely put on the shoulders of the 

 " printer's devil," the volume, although published so late in the year, 

 shows evidence of hurried preparation rarely seen in any entomological 

 periodical nowadays. This is most evident in Dr. Hodgson's 

 iirst class paper, where species and aberrations are written as Aglaia, 

 Corydon, Si/uijrapha, Iconis, etc., sometimes with small, at others with 

 capital, initial letters, without any sign of generic names, and when 

 the latter are suggested, w'e get such indications as B. rhanini, T. 

 jiapkia, etc., and wonder what it all means. Similarly, the presidential 

 address is chiefly written with reference only to specific names, a form 



