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Notes fkom tme Ex(!Iianuk 1>askets. — Mr. J. I\Iason ((Jk'vedoii) 

 writes on March liStli : — '• I think insects will be late this spring. 

 Sallows are only jnst on tlie move ; the only insects seen on the 

 gas-lamps last niglit were a few Hijhernia nipi'capr<irl<i. 'My experience 

 as to the Hight of Clicimatobia hrumata (ante, p. lo9) agrees with that of 

 Mr. Finlay, riz. : that the insects when in cop. if disturbed, always 

 flutter to the ground. Of course the female may readily crawl u}) a 

 lamp or into any other })rominent i)osition, and when there attract the 

 males." — Dr. R. Freer (Kugeley) writes on March 24tii:— "1 took a 

 few Hi/bcruia Icurophacdria and I'hiijalid pcdaria on iNIarcli 3rd. The 

 former were somewhat al)nndant, but the percentage of cripples large." 

 — Mr. Maddison (South P>ailey)writes on March 29th: — " 1 have taken 

 a few H. leucoph<ir<tria, 1'. pedaria and one Anisopterijx aei^cnlaria, during 

 the last few days, but the weather is cold ftnd wet and against out-door 

 work." — Mr. A. W. Mera (Forest Gate) writes on April 6th:— "My 

 experience quite agrees with that of Mr. Finlay as regards moths flying 

 in cop., and I have done a fair amount of mothing. But perhaps 

 C. briimata may prove an exception to the general rule. The habits of 

 some of the butterflies seem to differ in this respect ; for instance, I 

 have never yet seen Limenitis sibyUa, in cop., although I have taken 

 a considerable number; in the same wood I have seen Epinephele 

 lii/peratifhus flying about in abundance in copula, but in this case I 

 believe it is the female that carries the male. 



gOCIETIES. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, on 

 May 1st, 1895, Mr. Horace St. J. Donisthorpe exhilnted a variety of 

 Rliatjiaiu bifasciaiuiii, a Longicorn Beetle, taken in the New Forest, in 

 which the elytra were of a light testaceous colour. Mr. Waterhouse 

 exhibited a living larva of a Longicorn Beetle, found in a boot-tree, 

 which had been in constant use by the owner for fourteen years, the 

 last seven of Avhich were spent in India. The specimen was brought 

 to the British Museum on May 6th, 189U, and was put into a block of 

 beech wood in which it had lived ever since ; it did not appear to have 

 altered in an}' way during these five years. It had burrowed about 

 eight inches, and prol)al)ly made its exit accidentally. Mr. lilandford 

 referred to a similar case which had come under his notice. Mr. 1 )ale 

 exhibited a specimen of a Sexia — supposed to be a new species — from 

 the New Forest. It was the ojjinion of some le})idopterists present 

 that the specimen was a pathological aberration of S. tipidifornu's, which, 

 owing to some failure of scale development had almost Ijare tibi;e, tlie 

 chitinous skeleton of the leg being of a pale brownish tint. Mr. (). F. 

 Janson exhibited a remarkalile s})ecies of Cnrcidivnidae from the island 

 of Gilolo, liaving exceedingly long and slender rostrum, antennfv, and 

 legs : it was apparently an undescribed s})ecies of the genus Tahinthnt, 

 Fascoe. 



At the SoiTii liONuoN Entomoi,o(;ical and Natvkal Histokv 

 Society on May 23rd, Mr. Barrett (on behalf of i\Ir. Home of Aberdeen), 

 exhibited very long series of A(jrotis ciirtiorid and A. trilici, from the 

 N.F. Coast of Scotland, showing such a range of variation that it was 

 diflicult to determine where one species ended and the other began ; 



