340 THE entomologist's record. 



and subside to a sort of network. The larger outer knobs are hemis- 

 pherical projections, with minute apical processes, the knobs have a 

 faint square network connecting them. Micropyle not made out. The 

 colour is orange with red spots. [Eggs laid August 2Hrd, 1900, by J 

 taken at Aix-les-Bains, described September 4th, 1900.] — T. A. 

 Chapman. 



@^URR ENT NOTES. 



In the Societas KntomohKiica, xix., p. 115, Neuburger describes a 

 new variety of Acidalia iiinimtata from the Lebanon mountains. He 

 names it var. s;/riacata. 



We greatly regret to note the death of Mr. John W. Carter, of 

 Bradford, recently. Mr. Carter has been an almost lifelong lepi- 

 dopterist, and was 76 years of age at the time of his decease. 



At a recent meeting of the Entomological Society of London, Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman exhibited for Mr. Hugh Main, a specimen of Arctia 

 caja, bred this year, which he said was a teratological specimen such 

 as he had never seen or met with, or, so far as he could recollect at 

 the moment, had ever heard or read of. The insect had a three-fold 

 hindwing on the left side, not three wings of more or less imperfect 

 development, as is not a very rare malformation, but the wing was at 

 first glance a normal wing, and, so far as the costa was concerned, was 

 apparently quite normal. Immediately below the costa, however, the 

 wing divided into three layers, each of which was apparently a normal 

 wing so far as form, colour, and markings Avent, bu^t which, when the 

 insect was alive, were so closely applied to each other as to look like 

 one normal wing, till, by blowing between them or in some other way, 

 they were separated. The larval and pupal skins had not been pre- 

 served with it. Mr. Main was placing the specimen in the teratological 

 collection in the British Museum, South Kensington. 



On the evening of November 10th a party of entomologists was 

 invited by Mr. H. Eowland Brown, one of the popular Secretaries 

 of the Entomological Society of London, and Mr. A. H. Jones, 

 the newly-appointed Treasurer, to dine with them at the Savage 

 Club. Among those present were Professor E. B. Poulton, Dr. F. 

 Dixey, Lieut. -Colonel C. T. Bingham, Colonel J. W. Yerbury, the 

 Rev. F. D. Morice, Commander J. J. Walker, Messrs. M. Burr, 

 A. J. Chitty, J. Collin, H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, H. H. C. J. 

 Druce, M. Jacoby, A. H. Jones, W. Lucas, J. W. Tutt, and G. H. 

 Verrall. The bonds of good fellowship existing between the Fellows 

 of the Entomological Society have possibly never been so marked as at 

 the present time, and the suppers given by the members of the Ento- 

 mological Club, and occasional dinners by the leading Fellows, 

 must do much to promote a sympathetic and friendly feeling among 

 those who, working at the same subject, and sometimes holding 

 diametrically opposite opinions, learn to respect each other's point 

 of view, and criticise fairly and without acerbity the work of those 

 who may differ widely from them. Besides which, such meetings 

 encourage the formation of personal friendships between men of 

 similar tastes and pursuits, which must go far to push on the scientific 

 study of our subject, by a friendly combination of labour, or by 

 the free interchange of opinion and criticism during the time that 

 work is in hand, and before publication takes place. An excellent 



