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The South London Entomological and Xatpral History Society : 

 Thursday, November 9th, I916.--Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. G. W. Mason, of Ealin|j, was elected a Member. 



Professor Bateson, P.R.S., gave a lecture, with lantern slides and other 

 illustrations, entitled " Remarks on the Mendel ian Theories, with especial 

 reference to recent extensions in their application made in America." Some 

 discussion took place. Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a gynandromoiph of Lasio- 

 canipa quercus and an olive-banded male of the same species, together with a 

 lemon-j'ellow male of Cosmotriche potatoria, the former from near Hndders- 

 field. Mr. Piatt Barrett, British Lyeaenidae taken this season. 



November 23rd, 1916. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a series of very darkly mai-ked bred specimens 

 of Agriojns aprilina from Teesdale. Mr. Frohawk, a fine bred series of Chryso- 

 phamis rutilus from ova laid by a female from Holland, and compared them 

 with the Austrian race and British C. dispar. Mr. Tiirner, a long series of 

 many forms of Peronea cristana and examples of various continental races of 

 Parnassius Mnemosyne. Mr. Brooks reported that he had taken an imago of 

 Acronida megacephola on June 8th and another on August 8th on the same trunk ; 

 it was supposed that the latter was a belated emergence. Mr. Blair, the living 

 larvae of the Dipteron, Microdon mutabilis, an inhabitant of ants' nests, found 

 among sphagnum from the New Forest. Mr. Frohawk reported that he had 

 noticed wasps collecting ears of corn in quantity from one portion of a field. 

 This was quite a new habit. —H. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



ON THE KIRBY COLLECTION OF SPHECODES, NOMADA, ANDRENA, 



AND CILISSA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A SPECIES OF 



SPHECODES HITHERTO UNRECORDED FROM BRITAIN. 



BY K. C. T,. TEUKINS, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S. 



The Kirby collectiou of British Bees, for the most part formed 

 before the year 1802, and illustrating his celebrated and admirable 

 " Monographia," publislied in that year, may be considered the most im- 

 portant of all our British collections, owing to the large number of actual 

 types that it contains. Unfortunately, before it became the property of 

 the British Museum, many of the specimens, a,s we know from F. Smith, 

 were in a 'decayed' condition, and in fa,ct they show plainly the 

 ravages of Dermestid beetles, Psocids, and such like pests. Many of 

 the specimens, too, are coated with dirt and exudations, and some are 

 in a very fragmentary condition. I do not think that any serious 



