18 TUE kntomologist's record. 



cork, you never come across a hard or soft sjDot in it, and the pins will not 

 come out unless well pulled.' It certainly seems deserving of further 



trial." The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows (Rainham) writes on Nov. 



23rd : — " There is now very little to record. The extremely mild 

 weather is encouraging ; the winter lepidoptera seem to enjoy their brief 

 lives, and as I cycle home on Wednesday evenings my path seems 

 sometimes beset with males of Cheimatohia hrmnata. Poecilocampa 

 populi I have not seen this year, but I was somewhat surprised to see a 

 good specimen of Phisia gamma at sugar a fortnight ago." — Mr. Finlay 

 (Morpeth) writes on Nov. 24th : — '' On Nov. 17th I took over forty pairs 

 of Cheimatohia horeata, which were in cop., hanging on the stems of 

 rushes, or on the small leafless branches of birch : also a few Hybernia 

 defoliaria, H. aurantiaria, Himera pennaria and Peronea avtnmnana." 



Castle Cary, Somerset. — The season here has been very x;nproductive 

 as regards Lepidoptera. Hecatera serena, Aplecta. advena and Eupithecia 

 venosata, came in fair numbers to the flowers of Silene inflata in June. 

 Ephippiphora tnrhidana appeared on June Kith, flying sluggislily among 

 butter-bur. I found Mesotype virgata plentiful in Jul}', on the sandhills 

 at Burnham. Ghjphipteryx ecpiitella came freely to yellow stone-crop 

 in my garden, in 18i^2 and 1893 ; but, as the food-plant had been 

 destroyed, I only saw one specimen this year (on Jul}^ liOth), in a 

 window of my house. Euholia eervinata came to light on October 4th, 

 and Diloha caeruleocephala on November 8rd. Ivy, owing to the wet 

 weather, has attracted but little ; Orrhodia spadicea and Pldngopliora me- 

 ticulosa are the most abundant species. Wasps are still seen. — W. 

 Macmillan. Nov. 18th, 1894. 



pOCIETIES. 



The Entomologicai. Society of London met on Nov. 7th. Colonel 

 Swinhoe exhibited a female of Papilo telearchns, Hewitson, which he 

 had received by the last mail from Cherra Punji. He said that this 

 was the only known specimen of the female of this species, with the 

 exception of one in Mr. L. de Niceville's collection, and which he had 

 described in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society of 

 1893. He also exliibited a male of the .same species for comparison. 

 Herr Jacoby exhibited two specimens of Blaps mncronatus, with soft 

 elytra, taken on a wall at Hampstead. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a 

 specimen of Periplaneta australasiae, received from Mr. C. E. Morris, of 

 Preston, near Brighton. Mr. McLachlan said the sjiecies had l)een in- 

 troduced into this country, but was now considered a British insect. jNIr. 

 McLachlan exhibited for Mr. G. C. Bignell, of Plymouth, two new 

 species of Ichneumonidae, from Devonshire, viz., Pimpla bridgmani, 

 Bign., a parasite on a sjiider, Drassns lapidicolens, Walck., and Praon 

 ahsinthii, Bign., a parasite on Siphonophora ahsinthii, Linn. Mr. C 0. 

 Waterhouse stated that the Acridium received from Capt. Montgomery, 

 and exhibited by Mr. Goss at the last meeting, was Acridium septemfascin- 

 tnm. Mr. Ridley made some remarks on Formica smaragdina, which 

 makes its nest on the trees, joining the leaves together by a thin thread 

 of silk at the ends. The first step in making the nest is for several 

 ants to bend the leaves together and hold on with their liind legs, and 

 one of their number after some time runs up with a larva and irritating 



