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Xenolechia cethiops in Dumbartonshire.— Daring the last four or five years I 

 have taken this insect, mostly isolated specimens, on the Moors here. This year I 

 resolved to make a special endeavour to obtain a number (as some of my corres- 

 pondents stood in need of it), and I was fortunate in succeeding beyond my most 

 sanguine expectations. On April 22nd I got one specimen somewhat worn ; the 

 weather was bitterly cold, and the season of the most backward kind, strong north- 

 east winds were the general order of things, and most of the insects were late in ap- 

 pearing. I understood that unless I discovered something of the habits of the species 

 I wanted I stood a poor chance of securing many specimens. In considering what 

 would be the most likely part of the Moor to get some sheltered spots, I remem- 

 bered that at one of the most likely there was a burnt patch of heather. This part 

 had some years ago yielded a few specimens. Taking this and the fact that Phycis 

 carbonariella, a similarly coloured species, occurring later in the year, must be 

 looked for in just such spots, I resolved to give it a trial ; I was most successful. 

 Before I had been half an hour on the burnt part I had netted a very con- 

 siderable number, and before I left off I had a sufficient number to satisfy my 

 correspondents. The insects have a most aggravating habit of flying very low 

 among the burnt stems, and an incautious sweep of the net means ruin to it and not 

 to the insect. Even when settled on the ground, littered as it is with burnt twigs, 

 they are perfectly secure ; they are so similar in colour to their surroundings that 

 the sharpest eyes fail to detect them. Another habit they have is that of settling on 

 the steins near the top, and running down to the roots on the under-sides when the 

 stems are bent. While I was on the ground a shower of rain succeeded a cold wind, 

 and although I had repeatedly traversed the portion in which they were commonest 

 without seeing a single specimen, whenever the rain fell they sprung into life and 

 appeared to be more numerous than ever, in fact I swept four into my net at the 

 same time. The flight seemed to be for the purpose of obtaining shelter, as it did 

 not last long, and I took one specimen which was about to settle on the lee side of 

 a fence post. After the rain was past I observed a good many on the wing in the 

 sunshine along with Peronea mixtana and Amphisa prodromana. — J. R. Malloch, 

 17, Dillichip Terrace, Bonhill : May, 1902. 



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Entomological Society of London : May 1th, 1902. — The Rev. Canon 

 Fowlee, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles R. Chichester, B.A., M.B., L.R.C.P., of Bathurst, Gambia, West 

 Africa, and Clonmore, Co. Cork, and Mr. J. H. Lewis, of Ophir, Otago, New Zealand, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen of 

 Anthocharis cardamines, taken near Winchester in 1899. The left side was that of 

 a normal male, the right that of a normal female, with the exception ef a splash of 

 orange pigment on the under-side of the primary. Mr. H. Gross, two male specimens 

 of Saturnia carpini from Essex, bred on whitethorn, and three males of the same 

 species caught in Surrey by the aid of bred (virgin) females. He remarked that as 

 a rule bred specimens were smaller than wild, but the bred Essex specimens were 



