SOCIETIES. 23 



iciirus were seen. The members then walked into Dorking, where they 

 were joined by Mr. R. W. Robbins, who had been to Leith Hill, but 

 had taken nothing of note, and by Mr. Smith, who had covered pretty 

 well the same gromid as the main body, and had taken S. irroreUa, 

 but no A. ornata. Immediately after tea all the party returned home 

 with the exception of Messrs. Smith and Tremayne, who stayed for 

 dusking, but were only rewarded by I'idaria fidvota and llepiuJus 

 heclus. The only butterfly at all common throughout the day was 



Coenoinjinphn pamphilus. At the meeting on June 27th, Mr. Rose 



exhibited Neiueopli'da phintaginis and Zonosoma annulata, taken at 

 Chattenden, at Whitsuntide. Mr. Bacot reported the capture during 

 the past week of Bnjopltila perla on the waterworks wall near the Lea ; 

 also that sugar had proved a failure at Hale End. Several members 

 had had the same experience with sugar in their districts. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 May 7th, 1895. — Exhibits: — Dr. Sequeira : a specimen of Hadena 

 trifolii {cheuopodii) lately taken on a fence at Twickenham ; also eggs 

 laid by the same. Mr. May : Taeniocampa gracilis from Tooting Bee 

 Common, which had been taken at sallows, between April 18th and 

 22nd ; one of the specimens had the orbicular stigma on the right 

 fore-wing developed into a horizontal reniform marking ; another had 

 the transverse row of black dots, unusually large and distinct. Mr. 

 May also stated that he had taken a male Notodonta carmelita at 

 Weybridge, on May 4th. Dr. Buckell stated that he had recently had 

 an opportunity of comparing the newly-hatched larvie of Pachnobia 

 rnhricond and P. leucogrtiitlni with those of Taeniocampa iustahiUs and 

 T. populeti. The former were hairy, the latter smooth. The former, 

 when at rest, bent the anterior segments round, and resembled some- 

 what a note of interrogation ; the latter rested stretched out at full length . 

 He thought that those entomologists who, in past times, had placed 

 rnhricosa and lencographa in the genus Taeniocampa could not have 

 been familiar with the newly-hatched larviB. Mr. Battley said that it 

 would be interesting to observe whether the development of the imago 

 within the pupa in Faclmohia took place in the autumn, as is the case with 

 Taniiocampii. [Itdoesdoso. Ed.] May 21st, 1895. — Exhibits: — Mr. 

 Clark : three specimens of Amphidasi/s strut aria from Epping Forest, bred 

 by Mr. Lane ; one of them was of a very pale ochre-grey colour, with the 

 usual markings mapped out in a slightly darker shade. Mr. Gates : 

 a series of Lltliocolletis lantanella, bred from leaf rubbish collected 

 from the ground. Mr. Bate : young larva? of Spilosoma mendica which 

 had passed the winter as ova (? Ed.). Mr. Prout : a variety of T. munda, 

 resembling some of the dark mottled forms of T. instahiiis, from 

 Broxbourne ; also an asymmetrical T. populeti from Epping Forest ; 

 the latter had the orbicular stigma on the left fore-wing, much enlarged 

 and of a very irregular shape. Mr. Bacot : a series of Cidaria siijf'ii- 

 viattt, bred from Aberdeen eggs; they were all of the ordinary form, 

 although said to be the produce of a female of the var. j;>/>eo/<7. Rev. C. 

 R. N. Burrows: a case of Epichnoptenjx reticella, the sole result of a 

 whole day's work on the sea-wall a"", lienfleet. Mr. ]\Iay stated that a 

 male S. luhricipeda had paired witli tAvo females, both of which had 

 laid fertile eggs. ]\Ir. ]-)ato read a paper entitled " Notes on Ainphidatiija 

 betularla," which willappear at lengthinour next number, 



