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EclepeiiB. Rare and Aberrant Lepidoptera. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited (a) two extremely small specimens of Ciipido nuniniKs, taken 

 with normal-sized examples near Winchester, on June 12th, 1909. The 

 expanse of wings is 15mm.; he also showed similarly small specimens 

 from Galway and from the Sepey Road, near Aigle, Rhone Valley ; (b) 

 an example of Anthrocera achilleae, in which the blotches on the fore- 

 wings are all fused together, giving at a casual glance the appear- 

 ance of a small A. pnrpuralis : it was captured at Gex, Ain, France, on 

 August 11th, 1909; (c) a white aberration, ab. alba, of Bionicia 

 phlaeas, taken at Brasted, Kent, on August 28th. This rare form 

 has usually been reported as ab. scJmiidtii, but as Mr. Tutt has 

 pointed out in " British Lepidoptera," vol. viii., the latter 

 form is straw-coloured ; and (d) examples of Heodes vinjaureae 

 ab. mieyii, a form of the 3 in which a large discoidal spot, and a 

 transverse partial row of black dots near the apex of the forewings 

 are developed, and var. zernmttmsifi, a form of the ? in which the 

 usual copper colour is suppressed, and much of the area has become 

 more or less dusky ; they were taken at Zermatt in early August. 

 The form miegii is said to be unusual outside Spain, but Mr. Turner 

 has seen quite a number with the spots more or less apparent. The 

 var. zermattensis has the usual form of the $ at Zermatt. New and 

 Rare British Beetles. — Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited specimens of 

 Melanophila acuminata, De Geer, Criocephalns ferns, Muls., and other 

 coleoptera found on pines near Woking. He called attention to the 

 numerous interesting forms that had been found on pines during 

 recent years, not only in the south of England, but in Scotland also. 

 The Buprestid had probably not been searched for previously at the 

 right season — during the driest time at the end of the summer and 

 early autumn — at a period when few insects are to be found. He 

 stated that he had met with various other Buprestids, both in Spain 

 and in Tropical America {e.(j., Buprestis sanguinea, F., and Actenodes 

 chalyheitarsis, Chevr.), in the dry season, or when the trees had been 

 scorched by fire. New British Coleoptera. — Dr. Norman H. Joy 

 showed the following : Epipeda nyiricans, Thorns., Pitynrienea trepan- 

 atm, Nordl., both taken at Blair Atholl, Perthshire, September, 1909 ; 

 Lathrobiuia diltitum, Er., captured at Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire, 

 September, 1909 ; Cryptophagiis pallidus var. arf/entea, var. nov., 

 differing from the type form in having silvery pubescence ; he also 

 exhibited Philonthus trossulus, Nord., from Dalwhinnie ; the penis of 

 Gnathoncm nidicola, Joy, and G. rotundatus, Kugel, and of Anhotoma 

 anglica. Rye, and A. cinnamoniea, Er. ; and a series of Snniiis lyon- 

 essius, Joy, from the Scilly Isles, and he pointed out the structural 

 characters by which this species may be distinguished from S. 

 anguatatus. Rare British Dragonfly. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a 

 very tine $ example of Sympetnim fouscoloiiibii, Selys, exhibited on 

 behalf of Mr. F. W. Edwards, of Cambridge, who took it on 

 September 24th, 1908, at Frensham Pond, in Surrey. Probably this 

 species is always an immigrant with us, and but few specimens have 

 been recorded. One 2 in Stephens' cabinet, was supposed to have 

 been taken near London. McLachlan possessed a <? from 

 T. Desvignes' collection. A S^ was taken at Deal in 1881. 

 Messrs. Briggs took 17 c? s in June, 1892, on Ockham Common, in 

 Surrey. In June, 1903, W. C. Boyd secured a ? near Irewoofe 



