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Prof. R. C. C. Burmeister. — We have just heard of the death of this venerable 

 Entomologist, on the 2nd May, at the age of 85. An extended notice of him will 

 appear in our next or an early number. 



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Birmingham Entomological Society : June 4^th to 7th, 1892. — A three days' 

 excursion was made to Sherwood Forest. A party of ten made Edwinstowe their 

 head-quarters, from which they worked Thoresby and Sherwood Forest proper. 

 They were mainly Lepidopterists, who were not rewarded by anything new ; many 

 larvae of Euperia fulvago were taken, a few Notodonta ti'epida, Eurymene dolo- 

 braria, &c., but nothing of note. A few Dipterists, who wei-e of the party, succeeded 

 in taking a number of interesting Syrphidcs on whitethorn bushes, including such 

 species as Orlorhina floccosa, O. berberina, &c., they also took commonly on the 

 furze bushes the fine " daddy," Pachyrrhina crocata. Grlorious weather was enjoyed, 

 and more insects should have been on the wing than were met with. — Colbean J. 

 Wain WEIGHT, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal IIistoey Society: 

 May 26a, 1892.— C. a. Barebtt, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a specimen of Anosia Plexippus, L., var. Erippus, 

 Cramer, which had been obtained by one of the employes of Captain Parke, in the 

 Falkland Islands ; it therefore appeared that the migratory habit had developed in 

 the southern form as in the northern. Until this insect was captured, the only 

 butterfly known in these islands was Brenthis Cytheris, Drury. Mr. Hawes ex- 

 hibited and contributed a note on a series of Pieris napi, L., bred from ova laid 

 by parent insect taken near Bentley, Suffolk, June 10th, 1891 ; the seven male and 

 fourteen female imagines appearing from 21st to 31st July, the remainder of the 

 brojd stood over until the spring, and thirty-one emerged between 6th and 20th 

 May. Mr. Hawes suggested that the cool summer of last year affected the pupse to 

 sucli an extent as to retard three-fifths of the brood. Mr. Jenner Weir said this 

 was the most interesting exhibition he had ever seen on this subject, as the two forms 

 of the species, viz., the summer and spring emergences, having both appeared from 

 a single brood reared under exactly similar circumstances. Mr. Frohawk, a pupa of 

 Argynnis Paphia, L., and made some observations as to the time occupied in the 

 pupal change. Mr. Tugwell, specimens recently taken by him at Tilgate Forest, 

 including Syricthus nialvce, L., approaching the var. Taras, Meig., Nisotnades Pages, 

 L., showing variation, varieties of Argynnifi Euphrosyne ; also an extremely pale 

 variety of Anisopteryx cescularia, Schiff., taken by Mr. Hann, of Heading. Mr. R. 

 Adkin, a bred series of Asteroscopus nubectdosa, Esp., and remarked on the species 

 remaining in pupa for two or three years : these now exhibited having pupated in 

 1890. Mr. Tugwell stated that he had bred them the first season. Mr. Hill, Tcenio- 

 campa gothica, L., and var. gothicina, from Rannoch. Mr. Carpenter, an example 

 of Vanessa Antiopa, L., taken on Tooting Common some few years back. Mr, Adkin 



