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first day was quite cool and dull with a sharp shower or two, so that 

 very few species of Lepidoptera would, or could be made to, come out. 

 Along the sides of the roads and lanes leading to the General's Pond, 

 Puttenham, several colonies of the larvfe of Gracilaria oniisella were 

 found in bladders in the leaves of the Artemisia vnh/aris. The larvfe 

 were mostly small, although one was found in its final instar of an 

 orange-red colour. Hipparclda semele was seen on the heath practising 

 its habit of settling on the ground, immediately falling over sideways, 

 and Epinephele tithonus was met with several times. The long valley 

 leading down to the pond was tenanted at one spot by a very small 

 race of Coenonympha paiiiphiliis in some numbers. Not one specimen 

 approached the normal size. One example only of Plnsia t/amnia was 

 taken and a Vanessid was seen, which was apparently Aijlais iirticae, 

 but I was not absolutely certain. The second day was warm and 

 sunny, and was taken up with a walk to Highdown, or Highdon as 

 known locally, a wooded hill two or three miles south of Godalming, 

 and then to Hambledon and back through Whitley, nearly the whole 

 way being by footpaths and commons. The neighbourhood of Highdown 

 produced more H. semele and E. tit/xmus, with a number of specimens 

 of Uninicia phlaeas and Pohjomtuatns icarns, the females of the latter 

 species being very much suffused with blue. On Hambledon I was 

 pleased to meet with a Paran/e mc/iaeia, of course of a second brood, 

 and to see Colias edusa fly by. — H.J.T. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.- — June 2Qth. — Larv.e Exhibited. — Mr. Main exhibited pupa 

 and living larva of Parnasftins apollo, and the larva of the Tiger beetle 

 Cicindelu sylvatica, from near Meiringen, Switzerland. Galls. — Mr. 

 Coxhead, galls on leaves of beech, and coloured drawings of the same. 

 They were of the Cecidomyiid Mikiola far/i. E. cardamines var. 

 TURRiTis. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a series of Kucldo'e cardamines from near 

 Messina, Sicily, and pointed out that they were small compared with 

 average British specimens, and were known as tHrritis, in which the 

 apical blotch is not extended beyond the discal spot. Phyllotoma 

 ACERis. — Mr. Main said that PJnjllotoina aceris, the jumping sawfly, 

 was now common in many places in the larval state. The Season. — 

 Messrs. Sich, Adkin, Edwards, Barrett, and Dr. Chapman made 

 remarks on the season, mostly as to the general scarcity of insects. 



Juiij itJi. — A Moroccan Tick and Psychid Cases. — Mr. Main, a 

 species of tick from a tortoise of Moroccan origin, the males were 

 small and blackish in colour, while the female was many times larger 

 and of a delicate slate colour; also cases of the Psychid Acantlw psyche 

 opacella, from Meiringen. Comparison of various broods of C. 

 ARGioLus. — Mr. Adkin, series of Celastrina ari/inliis : (a) Reared in 

 July and August, 1912 ; (/;) reared in April and May, 1913, from the 

 same lot of larvae from Eynsford ; (c) reared from Eastbourne larvfe 

 in April and May, 1918. The spring series were much alike, and the 

 females had much less of the heavy bordering of the summer 

 emergence. Exhibit of Australian Papilios. — Mr. Edwards, several 

 species of Papilio of the P. aeycus group from the Australian region, 

 including the rare P. yambrisus. Polistes nest. — Mr. Blair, a nest 



