lilOTES OF TH'E season',' ^7 



took Cmpidia pu, Miana bicoloria, Caradrina alsmcs, A. nigricans, 

 Tryphaena ianthina, AmpJiipijra tragoporjonis, Catocala uujifa, ('alij)iinia 

 dijjiais, C. affinis, Pijralis glaurinalis, etc. There was nothing to do in 

 the day-time in the fen, except to collect larvte of Papilio iiiarhaon 

 and V. alhovenosa, both of which were swarming, and of all sizes, 

 although the imagines of both species were Hying in numbers. 

 LarVcB of Earias chlorana, Lasiocaiiipa quercifolia, P. palpina, I'ygaera 

 pigra, and S. lihatrix, were beaten out of sallow, and those of Chocro- 

 campa elpcnor were common in the ditches. As an instance of the way 

 in which the professionals go about exterminating species, I may 

 mention that one of them told me that last autumn he took 420 small 

 larvaB of L. quercifolia, from which he this year bred two imagines ! ! 

 Two visits to Tuddenham were productive of nothing special. 

 Aspilatcs ochrearia was the only moth occurring plentifully, and there 

 were a few Agrotis vcstigialis, A. tritici, Acontia luctuosa, and lladcna 

 trifolii. Acidalia ruhiginata (rubricata) occurred sparingly, about a 

 dozen being taken. The larva; of Dianthoccia irregularis had been 

 plentiful, but were unusually early, and although we made an attempt 

 to find pupse, none were forthcoming. We saw four Colias ednsa, only 

 one of which was captured ; it was a fine fresh female at rest on a 

 clover flower. — L. S. Brady, 17, Filey Street, Sheffield. Sept, IQth, 

 1895. 



SOCIETIES. 



The second August meeting of the South London Entomological 

 AND Natural History Society unfortunately fell on the night of the 

 great thunderstorm. Mr. South exhibited smoky forms of Ruinia 

 luteolata from Macclesfield ; Mr. Hall stated that he possessed similar 

 forms from Scotland. Mr. West (of Greenwich), in exhibiting Ghry- 

 somela gaetthigensis, taken this year at Bookham and Boxhill, 

 remarked that he had never taken the species before. Mr. Turner : 



Scodiona helgiaria, from Oxshott and Shirley. On Sept. 12th 



Mr. Jilger exhibited a melanic specimen of Agrotis vestigicdis, from 

 N. Wales, in which both fore and hind wings were black. Mr, Tutt : 

 a number of cases of Thyridopteryx ephoiieraeformis (or a species 

 closely allied thereto), from the Argentine Kepublic ; they were 

 mostly cocoons of the vermicular female, and contained either eggs 

 or young larvae ; he stated that the species had recently been reported 

 as causing much damage in America. Mr. Adkin : a specimen of 

 Bianthoccia conspersa (bred with others from N. Devon larvae), which 

 was of a rosy tinge ; also a curious specimen (bred) of Bomhyx quercus 

 var, callunae, in which the outer half of each wing was devoid of 

 scales, the fringes, however, being perfectly developed ; also specimens 

 of the wild British everlasting pea [Lathyrus sylvestris) from Eythorne, 

 Kent. Mr. Tutt reported that he had taken a comparatively small 

 number of Zygaena exidans in the Tyrol, some of which were of the 

 Scotch form (var. vanadis), but that Dr. Chapman had taken a 

 long and most variable series of the species at Andermatt, including 

 all the forms described in the paper read to the Society last year. Mr. 

 Enock exhibited, and described at some length, the Hymenopteron, 

 Trichograiiima evanescens, which is parasitic on the eggs of Lepidoptera, 

 and is only 0'5 mm. in length. He remarked that the broods followed 

 each other with marvellous rapidity, each brood maturing in 

 about 14 days. The parasite did not confine itself to the eggs of 



