98 THE entomologist's record. 



The Mosquito Committee of the S.E. Union of Scientific Societies 

 will be grateful for information on the following points : — 



1. Of records of any of your captures of adult Anojilwlis phnnJicns 

 during and since last summer u-itJi ilnti's. 



2. Whether you found living larvae in tree-holes at any time 

 during that period. 



3. Does A. pliniibeus deposit her eggs : 



(a) on the water : 



(b) on floating or stationary objects ; 

 (f) on the wet margins of tree-holes. 



4. Any information ns to the hatching of eggs and their retention 

 of vitality after desiccation, not only of A. iilionhciis, but also of other. 

 and which other, species of mosquitoes. 



5. x\ny other information relating to the possible hibernation of 

 the species in the egg stage. 



The Committee will be glad if correspondents will reply to the 

 above questions as soon as they can reasonably do so, but in any case 

 not later than June 15th next. 



Attention is called to the fact that the recent rains having filled 

 tree- holes which were previously dry, an early examination and report 

 of the presence of larvfe in these is important. 



Communications should be sent to the Rev. T. \Y. Oswald- liicks, 

 B.A., Hon. Sec, Lesware, Linden Road, N. 15. 



We regretfully have to record the death of an old friend and sup- 

 porter of the South London Entomological Society, Mr. Lachhm Gibb, 

 F.E.S., of Blackheath and Canada, who passed away a few weeks ago 

 at the age of 68. Although he made no collection he was interested 

 in aught entomological, and freely gave his captures both in Canada 

 and at home, to his friends. The Society is indebted to him for its 

 large sixty-drawer cabinet, and also a typical collection of Canadian 

 butterflies, as well as for many additions to their reference library. 

 He was a most pleasant and genial companion, and when in England 

 came to all the field meetings of the Society. 



i^ C I E T I E S . 



The Entomologicai. Society of London. 



I>ere)iiher 1th. — New Fellows. -Messrs. W. lievan Whitney, B.Sc, 

 A.M.Tnst.C.E., Glen Doone, Gerrards Cross, Bucks; Edward Nevill 

 Willmer, Tratfbrd Hall, near Chester, and Corpus Christi College, 

 Oxford ; and John Glover Hugo Frew, M.Sc, 262, Church Road, 

 Yardley, Birmingham, and Rotbamsted Fjxperiinental Station, Har- 

 penden. 



Exhibits. — Professor H. Maxwell-Letroy exhibited on behalf of 

 ])r. A. Moore a new method of preserving insects. 



Mr. G. Talbot discussed the existence in Africa of a renuirkable 

 I'ajiiUi) of the nutiinachiis group, and also exhibited on behalf of Mr. 

 J. J. Joicey a gynandromorphous example of Arrii/nnis lij/pcrhins var. 

 castesti. 



Mr. R. Adkin brought for exhibition a series of Aijlais mtirae; 

 this exhibit gave rise to some discussion on the coinparitive rarity of 

 A. loticae in 1921, and on the relative abundance and apparent spread 

 n the South of England of Tay/csA^/ c-alhiim. 



