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sugar answers very well, I have taken a long series of HeJotroplia 

 fibrosa beautifully varied both in colour and markings, and in very 

 good condition. Calamia phraijmttidls has only been s^jaringly taken. 

 Tdpiiiostola helliiiaaai is hardly out at all yet. Leucania pudoriiui is 

 getting woru, whilst L. p aliens, L. inipxira, Xylophasia poli/odou, Apauiea 

 ocnlea and Hadeaa olcracea are pests. One Aijrolis ravida has fallen to 

 my lot, and of others, Noclua rahi, N. baia, Ceriijo cijtherea, Caspklia 

 megacephala, Caradrina alsines, C. morpheas and Cosiaia ajfiais are the 

 best. — J. C. MoBERLY, Wicken. Jcdy 13lh, 1893. 



gOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological Society. — Jidi/ ISth, 1893. — Mr. E. 

 Oldham exhibited specimens of Macaria liturata, Clerck, Melanthia 

 albicdlata. L. and many others, some fine forms of OdonesUs poiatoria, 

 and a specimen of Plusia moneta, captured at Woodford on the 

 2nd June, Mr. Adkin remarking that this si^ecies appeared to be 

 distributing itself gi-adually over the country. Mr. South showed 

 a remarkable form of Triphcma pronuba, L, it being the tyjaical pronuba 

 on one side and the variety iunuba, Tr. on the other, also Coccyx 

 ochsenheimeriana, Zell. and a variable series of C kedella from 

 Middlesex. Mr. Fenn exhibited long bred series of Dicraniira 

 bifida, Hb., Boariiiia roboraria Schiff. and Notodonta dickea, L. from 

 Bexley, the New Forest and Deal, respectively. Messrs. Adkin, South, 

 Frohawk and Briggs showed very long series of Pieris brassicce, L., 

 from many parts of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man, &c., for the 

 purpose of showing the variation existing, both in size and markino-s 

 Mr. Adkin drawing attention to the manner in which the depth of 

 colour in the tips varied from black to dove grey. One shown by Mr. 

 South was no larger than an average Pieris rapce, L. Mr. Frohawk's 

 specimens comprised, amongst others, a number from Harwich. These 

 corresponded to the Southern French type, and had no doubt immio-rated. 

 Mr. H. Moore showed three sjjccimens of the Harlequin Beetle, Acrocinm 

 lonijimanus, from Trinidad, &c. Mr. Auld, a fine var. of Lomaspilis 

 marginata, L. from Folkestone. Mr. Step, a number of pujjjB of the 

 " bacon beetle," Dermestes lardarim, which he stated were being exiieri- 

 mentally tried as bait for fishing when in the larval condition. Mr. 

 Barrett mentioned a curious instance in which a number of lepidoi^terous 

 larva3 had been found in earthen cells in a book draAver, and were sup- 

 posed to have been placed there by one of the fossorial Hymenoptera 

 (? Ed.). Mr. West of Streatham, showed Sesia bemhecifornm, D.L. Mr. 

 Turner two varieties of Argynnis selene, Schiff. and a number of Tortrices 

 and Tineina, including Penthina prruuiaua, lib., Sciaphila snbjectana, Gn. 

 S. hybridana, Hb., Torlrix ministrana, L., Phoxopterijx miller p acker i ana 

 Schiff., Neinophora sioammerdamella, L., &c. Mr Briggs also exhibited 

 a portion of tlie outer covering of a tree wasp's nest, which was curiously 

 striped with blue, the insect having, no doubt, been using blue paper 

 or other material of that colour in its formation. — H. Williams, Hon. 

 Secrelary. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 



Tuesday, July -klh, 1893. — Exhibits :- Mr, Gates, cases and bred 



