102 THE entomologist's rkcord. 



satisfactory membership, which now stands at five hundred and fifty 

 four Fellows. The number of elections into the Society during the 

 past year has been the highest on record, and so far as the current 

 year has gone the long list of candidates for election is very gratifying. 

 In the words of the Annual Report just issued this "highly satis- 

 factory state of things " is due "to the wide range of research adopted 

 by our Fellows, and the more general recognition, by the public, as 

 a consequence, of Entomology as a practical science." 



The Zeitsclirift far ivissensliaftUclie Iiisecti'nbiulof/ie for December 

 last, contains an article on Anaitis colnmbata, by M. Al. K. Drenowsky, 

 of Sophia, from which we learn that the genus Anaitis, of which we 

 in this country possess only one species, A. plagiata, is spread 

 throughout the whole Palsearctic area, and contains at least seventeen 

 species. Of these we are told only six occur in the European area 

 proper, and outside Bulgaria only two species, A. jdai/iata and A. 

 praeformata, are met with. The paper is illustrated by a plate of 

 twenty-four ^ and $ forms, and two diagrams. In the same 

 number we have a continuation of an article on the Galls and 

 Gallflies of Germany, well illustrated by capital enlargements of the 

 terminal portions of the ovipositors, critical segments of the antennae, 

 and figures of the imagines. This article is continued in the January 

 n amber, and we have the commencement of an important paper by 

 M. H. Stichel on the Lepidoptera of Persia, based mainly on the 

 results of a journey made by the brothers Rangnow to that country. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — Februanj 9th, 1911. — Mr. Walieley, of Wimbledon Common, was 

 elected a member. J^^GERIA culiciformis. — Mr. Newman exhibited 

 shoots of birch, taken from the base of stumps of cut trees, from which 

 tbe larva3 of Aei/eria vuliciforinis had been extracted by birds. It was 

 stated that at times the larvfe bore into the twigs instead of into the 

 stump. Galls made by Saperda vopulnea. — Mr. Hugh Main, twigs 

 of aspen swollen with galls caused by the larvne of the Longicorn 

 beetle Sajicrda popidnea. Varieties of Lepidoptera. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, 

 on behalf of Mr. Jupp, varieties of Knnonios angidaria with the two 

 transverse lines filled in with a dark fascia, liuarmia repandata var. 

 convermria with an unusually heavy black central fascia, and Triphaena 

 ftiiibria with very strongly contrasted black and white markings on the 

 forewings. Moths attracted by Light. — Capt Cardew, a number of 

 species which had flown in to light in a house on the Island of 

 Dominica, W. Indies, including four species of Spbingids, Pac/njlia ficiis, 

 I'holus vitis, P. lahruscae, Herse cuti/idata, with Deinpeia ornatria-, Ecpan- 

 ilwria icasia, and the Syntomids Argadea ajita, Commotio in a deniantria, 

 t'tc. Februari/ 23/7/, 1911.— Mr. .J. H. Leslie, F.E.S.,of Tooting, was 

 elected a member. Aberrant Noctuids. — Mr. Turner exhibited three 

 Noctuids sent to him by Mr. Murray, of St. Anne's-on-Sea, two of the 

 specimens were very dark melanic forms of Agrotids, superficially 

 very similar, but which, on close examination, he considered to belong 

 to two species, Ayrotis tritici of the var. nigra form, and A. nigricans 

 of the var. fumosa, Fab. (nee God.). The third specimen was a worn 

 Liiperina, possibly referable to L. cespitix, the small, gray, rough 

 surfaced form sometimes met with on tbe coasts of Lancashire and 



