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velittina, Loew, at the last meeting, and said tliat he found he had 4 males and 

 3 females taken at West Kounton where Mr. Bradley took his. He said that on 

 comparing the insects with the deseription in Becker's Monograph he found some 

 rather important disagreements. Mr. W. S. Collinge showed Coleoptera from an 

 old beech at Erdington. Mr. Wainwright, various Lepidoptera. Mr. J. Simkins, 

 selected specimens from a large nuii^er of Tseniocampx he had bred from pupae 

 dug at Solihull, there were some fine forms especially of incerta, Hufn., amongst 

 them. Mr. Gr. T. Bethune-Baker, a number of Lycxaidx, chiefly new species from 

 Africa, New Guinea, &c., and he communicated a paper in which he described the 

 new species.— CoLBRAN J. Wainwright, Ron. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday^ June \Uh, 1906. — Mr. R. Adkin, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Penn-G-askill exhibited a dark suffused specimen of Tephrosia biundularia 

 from the Midlands. Mr. West, examples of EucHdia mi and B. glyphica, taken in 

 his own garden at Ashtead. Mr. Sich, an assemblage of 39 pupae of Pieris 

 brassicee which had been found in a tumbler placed with the larvae in the breeding 

 cage. Light and dark specimens were intermixed at random. Mr. Lucas, a !? of 

 the snake fly, RapMdia notata, from the Black Pond, Esher, and also a very 

 sparsely marked example of the scarcer Scorpion Fly, Panorpa germanica, from 

 Haslemere. Mr. Carr, pupae of Porrittia galactodactylus from Horsley. Mr. 

 F. Noad Clarke, on behalf of Mr. Grrifllths, ova of Sadena pisi. Mr. Tonge, 

 clusters of ova of Pachetra leucophcca, which had been found at night on grass 

 stems, with the ? sitting just above them. Mr. Bellamy read a paper entitled 

 " The Spring in the New Forest, and Whitsuntide Experiences." Several members 

 reported that Phryxus Uvornica had been met with in a few places, and that 

 Pyrantels cardui and Plusia gamma were common in some parts of the South and 

 were moving on. 



Thursday, June 28th, 1906.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited specimens of Dicranura furcula and Axylia putris 

 taken around the electric lights at Hammersmith. He noted at the same time 

 numbers of Triphxna pronuba, Agrotis exelamationis and Noctua plecta. He also 

 showed the pupa of Thecla priini. Mr. Bellamy, two specimens of Phryxiis 

 Uvornica, taken in June at Ringwood ; an example of Hesperia malvae var. taras, 

 from Holrasley, and a partially radiated form of Abraxas grossulariata. Mr. 

 Tonge, the ova of Aporia cratxgi, in situ on a leaf of hawthorn, sent from Hyeres 

 by Mr. Powell. Mr. Penn-Gaskill, living specimens of Harpipteryx xylostella and 

 H. nemorella, with the elongated cocoons of the species. The larvae were found on 

 honeysuckle at Wimbledon. Mr. West (G-reenwich), a series of the rare Hemip- 

 teron, Poecilosvytus vulneratus, from Yarmouth. Mr. Main, the egg case and 

 young of Phyllodromia germanica. He said that the young emerged almost as 

 soon as the egg case was deposited. Mr. R. Adkin, examples of Notodonta chaonia 

 and Lophopteryx carmelita, which emerged in April, 1906, from 1904 pupae.— 

 Hy. J. Turner, Eon. Secretary. 



