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Mr. Champion H'^.M.M./ records that E.romias {Barifpeitlies) 

 Pl/rencifus has occurred at Plymouth occasionally since 1888. He con- 

 siders that B. p!frenaeii.s, which is treated by Dr. Seidlitz as a variety 

 of />'. arancij'onais, is specifically distinct from the latter. Mr. Cham- 

 pion further notes that the insect standing under the name of T^nna 

 en'r/isoiii, Suffr., in British collections, should be referred to L. septea- 

 trionis, Weise. 



SOCIETIES. 



The City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 —May 4th, 1897.— Lepidoptera from Digne. — Mr. Tutt exhibited 

 a box of insects of various orders, collected during March by Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman. These, he said, were interesting, and the presence of 

 freshly emerged specimens of CoUas edma and C. hiialc supported the 

 now practically proved view that they hybernated as liirvffi, and pupated 

 and emerged in early spring. Among other species captured were 

 Sitildt/n/nis (ilceae, TliaU puhf-cena, T. meJesieaste, Plerin dapUdice, 

 Anthocharis bclia, Euchlo'e cardaiiiines, E. eiiphenoiden (very fine ex- 

 ample of both sexes), Leucophasia sinapif:, Gonepteryx rhamni, G. 

 cleopatra, Nomiades iiuianops, Poli/ommatm haton, Pnli/uonia eqea,. 

 Miiitaea cinxia, Brenthis dia, Parcmie eijeria (the southern fulvous 

 form), P. vw/aera, and a magnificent series of Eirhia rjiisti/fine, from 

 Grasse. Among insects of other orders were many Hemiptera, Hyme- 

 noptera, Coleoptera, etc. Also several specimens of Asralaiihns coccajus, 

 W. V. Larv.e and pup^ of Charaxes jasius. — Mr. Tutt (for Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards) exhibited a number of larvae of Chara.ve^ jamis 

 on the food-plant (Arbutus), which had been captured by Dr. Chap- 

 man at Cannes. He drew attention to the hood of the larva, and 

 to the remarkable structure of the pupa. Porthesia chrysorrhcea 

 ON OAK. — Mr. Tutt also exhibited larvae of Port/it'sia rhri/sorr/ioca, two 

 nests of which Mr. Edwards had cut from oak in the neighbourhood 

 of Digne. Tephrosia crepuscularia and T. bistortata. — Mr. Bacot 

 exhibited three broods of T. crepuscularia fhhindularia) : Nos. 1 and 2. 

 bred from ova of the York form, and No. 8 from ova of the ab. 

 ddamcrcnsis. The eggs of all three broods were sent him by Mr. 

 Hewett ; three broods of T. bistortata [crepuscularia) : No. 1 from ova 

 sent him by Mr. Hewett, who had received them from Major 

 Robertson, No. 2 from ova which Mr. Hewett had received from Mr. 

 Mason, No. 3 reared from eggs laid by moths of brood 2, that emerged 

 last June. Larva of Anchocelis pistacina. — Mr. May : a larva of 

 Anchiicelis pistacina, one of a brood bred from ova laid by a ? taken 

 on Tooting Bee Common, September, 1896. Exotic Coleoptera.— 

 Mr. Clark : a very fine exhibit of foreign Coleoptera, including the 

 following: <? and $ Chalocosonin atlas [Indi-A), $ and 2 Odontnlabis 

 f?(m-« (India), ^ and $ Ceratorrhina polijpheuius {\\. Mv'ica.), $ and 

 $ Xiilntrupes dichotormus (Japan), $ and $ Euri/trachelus titan 

 (Java), Goliathus druryi (W.Africa), Batocera wallacei (var.), Chiacoy- 

 nathus (jranti (Chili). Oporabia nebulata and Oporabia filigrammaria. 

 —Mr. "Prout : a representative series of named forms of Oporabia 

 nebulata {dilutata) ; a variable series of (>. tiliijrannnaria from Ireland, 

 Yorkshire, Bolton and Isle of Lewis ; examples of the different forms 

 which have by various authors been named autwnnata {aria), namely: 

 autwnnata, Bkh., from Germany, a North Finland specimen agreeing 



