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cularia, Ha/ictus atricornis, Omnia xanthome! ana, O. inermis, and (J. parietina, by 

 Mr. Willoughby Gardner. The exceedingly rare Ophiodes lunar is, taken in Delamere 

 Forest by Mr. T. Wright, of Warrington ; an account of this capture, establishing 

 its genuineness beyond all doubt, was given by Mr. Joseph Collins, along with a 

 summary of all the previous British records ; a fine series of Lepidoplera from 

 Simondswood Moss, including Carsia imbutata and Celcena Haworthii, by Dr. J. 

 Cotton. Mr. Newstead then gave a paper, entitled, " Entomological gleanings 

 from my diary," which was illustrated by electric light views. As usual, it was 

 exceedingly instructive, almost every sentence containing some new observation or 

 fact in insect economy, so that this most wide-awake of naturalists kept his hearers 

 on the alert, all the time. The paper included the following subjects : — A night in 

 Delamere with an electric arc lamp ; the occurrence of Zeuzera cesculi in Cheshire ; 

 the assembling of <S. pavonia ; jays and the larvce of G. papilionaria ; the genus 

 Sesia in Delamere ; Tipula oleracea and its ravages, how the rooks and gulls de- 

 stroy it by thousands, 400 being found in a single " casting" of the black headed gull ; 

 the life history of Selandria atra, or Pear Tree Sawfly, and "Recent researches 

 amongst the Scale insects. Hearty thanks were offered to Mr. Newstead by Mr. R. 

 Wilding, Dr. J. W. Ellis, and Mr. W. Gardner. —Frederick Birch, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Nov. 28th, 1901.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The evening was set apart for a special exhibition of varieties and notable 

 captures. A considerable number of members and friends attended, and a large 

 number of specimens were exhibited. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited a long and fine bred series of Colias Hyale from ova 

 laid by a ? from Sheerness, taken August 18th, 1900. Mr. Lucas, $ and ? of the 

 rare British dragon-fly, Libellulafulva, taken near Bournemouth by Major Robert- 

 son ; $ Oxygustra Curtisii from the same district ; and S , ? , and <j> var. aurantiaca 

 of Ischnura elegans from the New Forest. Mr. Ashdown, extreme variations in 

 size of the following Coleoptera : — Clytus arietis, C. my sticus, Motor chus minor, 

 and Pachyta cerambyciformis. Mr. West, a species of Homoptera, Stictocoris 

 flaveolus, new to the British list, and taken by himself at Blackheath in August and 

 September, 1901. JVIr. Thornthwaite, a dark Hybernia defoliaria, taken by him on 

 his way to the meeting. Mr. W. J. Kaye, a beautiful series of Ambulyx rostralis, 

 a S. and Central American Sphingid, with specimens of var. ganascus, which some 

 consider a species ; also a single specimen of a new species of Ambulyx, which he 

 had taken during the past summer while on an expedition to the interior of British 

 Guiana. Messrs. Harrison and Main, varied series of (1) Triphcena comes from 

 several localities, including the Isle of Lewis ; (2) Agrotis tritici, from the Isle of 

 Lewis and Wallasey; (3) Odontopera bidentata ; (4) Camptogramma bitineata ; 

 (5) Melanippe sociata, all from the Isle of Lewis. Mr. R. Adkin, several of the 

 same species from the Isle of Lewis, with Noctua xanthographa, particularly fine 

 and varied Boarmia repandata, Coremia ferrugata, and Xylophasia monoglypha ; 

 he also showed an example of Pieris Daplidice, with Colias Hyale and C. Edusa 

 taken at Eastbourne, 1901. Mr. Montgomery, a very fine bred series of Pieris napi, 

 including a number of fine examples of var. bryonice, from ova laid by a female 



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