144 THE entomologist's record. 



dark markings lighter and the light area darker to a yellowish-white) ; 

 ab. $ niin/hiixaria (a small alpine form with dull markings) ; ab. <? 

 nivalis (the form with the ground colour pure white) ; ab. ^ innnacu- 

 la (the basal streak on the forewing absent and the hindwing as in 

 the type but duller iu ground) ; ab. <? albldaria (with much redaction 

 of the black area on all the wings and light yellow ground). A fine 

 gynandromorph is also figured, the R.-side /lavesccns ^ , the L.-side 

 strigata J . 



It is interesting to find [Nat., January, 1913, p. 20) that Maras- 

 marcha liinaedacti/la [phaeodactyla) which in the Appendix to the Lint 

 of Yorh/tire Lepidoptera Mr. G. T. Porritt recommends to delete as a 

 county species, was found in plenty flying over its food-plant, rest- 

 harrow {Ononis firniisis) at Sledmere by Mr. Wm. Mansbridge. 



A new species of Bled ins is described {I'jnt. Mo. Map., vol. xlix., 

 p. 1) by Mr. D. Sharp under the name Ulediiis (lulielmi. It is closely 

 allied to 11. annac and was discovered by Mr. W. E. Sharp in York- 

 shire. 



Another species of Coleoptera is also {Ent. Mn. Mai/., vol. xliv., 

 p. 7) announced as new to Britain by Mr. P. de la Garde, ciz., Homalota 

 aquatilis, which has been found by him in flood-rubbish at Buckfast- 

 leigh and Christow, and by others at Tiverton, S. Brent and Dawlish. 



A new species of Diptera is announced {Ent. Mo. Ma;/., vol. xliv., 

 p. 13), by Mr. J. H. Wood, as Hilara albocini/iilata, from specimens 

 taken on the banks of the Monnow, a tributary of the Wye. 



The Migration of insects is always an interesting question. In the 

 Canadian Entomoloijist, vol. xliv., 366, Mr. F. M. Webster, gives 

 details of three such occurrences with the species Anosia /deA-ippus, 

 which took place under his close observation. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. — Decemher Afh, 1912. — 

 Mr. C. A. Foster, Worcestershire Regiment, Beechwood, Ifiley, Oxford, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. The President announced the 

 death of Mr. W. F. Kirby, formerly Honorary Secretary of the 

 Society. Mantid Oothecae. — -Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a diagram of 

 the ootheca of a Mantis and read notes upon it. Mullehian 

 Associations from Costa Rica, Venezuela and Brazil. — Mr. W. 

 J. Kaye exhibited a number of butterflies with one moth belong- 

 ing to the principal Miillerian association as found in Costa Rica. 

 A number of specimens, both set and unset, of the principal Mullerian 

 group from Caracas, Venezuela, were also shown. From Santos, 

 South-East Brazil, were shown the principal members of the synapose- 

 matic group to call attention to a member of the group that had not 

 been previously mentioned. The species was Pericopis isse, a Hypsid 

 moth. Metallic Colour in Chrysids. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited 

 a small box of Chrysids, and started an interesting discussion on the 

 means by which the metallic coloration was produced. Series of 

 Melanargia .tapygia and M. Galatea from Sicily. — Mr. J. Piatt 

 Barrett exhibited series of these two species from Sicily. — A scarce 

 Orthopteron. — Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a series of Platydeis rucseliii 

 taken by himself at Trusthorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast, this year./ 

 The forms of Leuceronia argia, P., in the Lagos district of WkstJ 



