SOCIETIES. 



261 



and a nest of a wasp taken from a wall on the road leading from 

 Cortina to Pieve di Cadore. T. bisellieli.a in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens. — Mr. Sich reported the occurrence of a Tineid, Tineola hi^dliella, 

 in some numbers in the Indian rat-snake's den at the Zoological 

 Gardens. Eemarkable instinct of Vespa germanica. — Mr. Step read a 

 communication describing how wasps [Ve>i}m [lenuanica) deliberately 

 cut holes through some tennis netting which had impeded the direct 

 road to their nest in his garden. 



Sej)teiiiber l]^/(.— Hyles euphorble. — Mr. Ashdown exhibited 

 the imago of Hi/les etiphurhiae bred from a larva taken at Aigle, 

 Switzerland. Mamestka pisi in a London garden. — Mr. Turner, 

 a larva of Mamestra pisi from New Cross, feeding on Michaelmas 

 Daisy. Lapland heterocera, 1911-12. — Mr. Sheldon, a collec- 

 tion of Heterocera taken in the Arctic areas of Norway and Sweden 

 in 1911-12. Of the eighteen species shown, ten are to be found in 

 the British Fauna. Species like Plmia hochenu-arthri, Anthrocera 

 exulans var. ranadis, Pwdos coracina {trepidaria), etc., found in the 

 high Alps, occurred there near sea-level. British species of Vespa. 

 — Mr. West (Greenwich), examples of the wasps Vespa (jennanica, V. 

 sylirstii)i and V. vtdtjaris to show the specific characters. Mr. Step, 

 specimens of V. germanica and T'. vuh/aris to show the difieience in the 

 appearance of the face. Species of Loweia. — Mr. Curwen, a series of 

 Loiveia aleipJiron var, ffordiiis from Iselle, showing much variation in 

 intensity of ground colour, and a short series of L. amphidatuan from 

 Caux, near Montreux. Autumn captures. — Mr. Carr, the large spider 

 Epeira qiiadrata from Crockham Hill, on heather, and reported 

 Asphalia dilitta common at sugar, Noctna glareosa common, and 

 Agrotis agathina fairly common. Mr. Sich reported Carpocapsa 

 jn)nionella as abundant. Mr. Tonge reported larvfe of Nonogria tgphae 

 at Deal to be extensively parasitized this season. Mr. Smith reported 

 Phri/xus livornica as occurring for the third year in succession at the 

 Lizard, and also specimens of Leucania vitellina. Agrotis Imiigera 

 were in some numbers in the same locality. 



Entomological Society of London. — May 1th. — Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, President, in the Chair. Mr. Charles C. Best-Gardner, of 

 liookwood, Neath, Glamorgan, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 

 Obituary.- — The President announced the death of Mr. Herbert Druce, 

 F.L.S. — A Rare Weevil. — Commander J, J. Walker exhibited a series 

 of AcalgptHs carpini, Fr., var. ritfipeniiis, Gyll., taken on and about a 

 sallow-bush at Weston-on-the-Green, Oxon, in April, 1913. An Albino 

 OF T.ENiocAMPA GRACILIS. — Mr. N. Chai'les Rothschild exhibited an 

 example of Taeniocampa gracilis, captured in April this year at Wood 

 Walton Fen, Hunts, white all over, without any markings whatever. 

 A New British Ant. — Mr, Donisthorpe exhibited a form of Pasiiis 

 a(finis, Schenek, an ant new to Britain, of which he had found a colony 

 at Tenby in South Wales, on the sand-hills, on April 24th this year. 

 Scales of Cnethocampa pityocampa. — Mr. H. Eltringham exhibited a 

 number of the scales composing the anal tuft of Cnethocampa pitgocampa, 

 Schiff., remarkable as being the largest scales known in any lepidop- 

 terons insect. The female forms of Papilio polyies, L., in the 

 Hong-Kong district. — Prof. Poulton exhibited four males and six 

 females of Papilio polgtcs, L., captured on Stonecutters' Island in 

 Hong-Kong Harbour. All the females were of the male-like form cyrus, 



