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bery for determination, is a specimen of Hister niarginatus, which I 

 picked up one fine afternoon in June on a roadside near this town. 

 Having been told it is a rare insect, I have thought that its occur- 

 rence here might be worth recording. — E. A. Atmore, King's Lynn, 

 April <)th, 1 89 1. 



Hybernation of Xylina semibrunnea. — I can endorse Mr. 

 Thurnall's note as to hybernation of Xylina semibrunnea, as in March, 

 1889, I took one at sallow; and on April 15th, this year, a friend 

 and myself visited the sallow, when my friend took one in fairly good 

 condition. — A. H. Hamm, 46, Granby Gardens, Reading. April 

 2'^th, 1891. 



Exhibition of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society.— Perhaps the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society shows its inherent strength better at the 

 Annual Exhibition than at any other time. The last of these, held 

 on the 15th and i6th April, at the Bridge House, London Bridge, 

 S.E., was in every way as successful as its predecessors, and the Society 

 is to be congratulated on the magnificent lot of things collected 

 together by its members. How much good such exhibitions do is 

 perhaps open to question ; that they do good certainly is not, and those 

 visitors who were not specialists, but who heard Mr. F. Enock's lecture 

 on "The Hessian Fly" must have gathered some new ideas on insect 

 life which had never occurred to them before. It is impossible to deal 

 with anything here except the strictly Entomological part of the Exhi- 

 bition, nor indeed with the whole of that, but a few of the more im- 

 portant exhibits will be noticed. The bulk of the Entomological 

 exhibits were Lepidoptera, but Messrs. Lewcock and Billups exhibited 

 several drawers of Coleoptera from their collections, the former gentle- 

 man making a special exhibit of the genus Donacia. Mr. Billups also 

 exhibited his magnificent collection of Hymenoptera, Diptera, and 

 Hemiptera, the setting and arrangement of which are excellent through- 

 out. Still another interesting exhibit was referable to Mr. Billups, 

 viz., a collection of Ichneumon idae, bred during the last four years by 

 members of the Societ\-, together with the imagines of their respective 

 hosts, and frequently with the larvae. This was perhaps one of the 

 most generally interesting exhibits, and attracted a great deal of atten- 

 tion. Mr. W. West also exhibited a most interesting box of Homo- 

 ptera, collected in 1891. Among the Lepidoptera, Mr. R. Adkin exhi- 

 bited his collection of British butterflies, and a very long series of 

 varieties of TriphcBua orhona {comes). Messrs. W. H. Tugwell and J. 

 R. Wellman exhibited some of their cabinet drawers, the cleanliness 

 and arrangement of the series being much admired. In Mr. TugweU's 

 exhibit, one noticed fine varieties of Arctia mendica, A. caia and Boarinia 

 repandata var. nigra, from the Huddersfield district. Messrs. Gregson 

 and Sydney Webb exhibited varieties of Abraxas grossidariata, the 

 three drawers of the latter gentleman containing some remarkable 

 forms ; as also did his drawer of varieties of Vanessa iirticce. Mr. C. A. 

 Briggs exhibited his drawer of lovely Colias vars., and Mr. C. Fenn, 

 be ides the series of pale Tmniocampa instabilis, mentioned in last 

 month's Record, exhibited three drawers of his beautifully set Crambidae 

 and Tortrices, his vars. of the true Crambus contaminellus being notice- 

 able. Mr. S. J. Capper exhibited a fine series of CcEnonynipha davus ; 



