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up well and pupated in due course. All of the pupae produced butter- 

 flies in the snnimer of 1921 with the exception of two which I thought 

 must be dead. I left the two pupae /;/ .s/^(( in the breeding cage, 

 however, and to my surprise perfect butterflies emerged — one on July 

 1st, 1922, and one on July 25th, 1922. I certainly did not expect 

 that a southern insect like /'. alexanor would be capable of passing two 

 winters in the pupal stage. — J. A. Simks (P.E.S.). 



(CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



We are informed that a new part of Genera lu.sertonnii has just 

 appeared : Carpnunidae, by E. Meyrick. At the end of the year a 

 thick volume will be issued on the Oecophoridae by the same author. 



We are getting the parts of Seitz Macrole/ridnptera of the Tl'orW 

 (Exotic section) quite regularly, about four parts per month, direct 

 from the present publishers, Messrs. Kernen, of Stuttgart. Each part 

 contains eight pages and two plates, or sixteen pages and one plate, 

 and the price is 2s. per part. By the time this is published we under- 

 stand that parts 254-261, English edition, will be in the hands of the 

 subscribers. Volume V., American Ehopalocera, has reached the 

 Hesjicn'idae, and Vol. IX., Indo-Malay Rhopalocera, has also reached the 

 end of the Lycaenids. These two volumes will be completed very 

 shortly, and Vol. VL, the American Bombyces, etc., is in progress. 

 The publishers have notified us privately that the translation of 

 Volumes X., Indo-Malay Bombyces, etc., and Volume XIII., African 

 Rhopalocera, is being so rapidly pushed forward that in a few weeks 

 they too will be appearing alongside the parts of the other volumes. 

 As there seems no possibility of getting the completion in any other 

 way than direct from the German publishers, we recommend our 

 readers to complete their sets to date before any part goes out of print; 

 as have the parts of Volume I., Palaearctic Rhopalocera. 



SOCIETIES. 



Thk South London Entomological Society. 



Juli/ 27t/i. — Mr. H. Main exhibited the natterjack-toad from the 

 South of France. 



Mr. Step, the insects he took on the occasion of the Field Meeting 

 at Netley Heath, July 15th, including Stranijalia aniuita (Col.), 

 VoLncella pelliicnis (Dip.), etc. He also showed the Southern Smooth 

 Snake and the Wall Lizard sent from the Pyrenees by Mr. 0. R. 

 Goodman, and gave notes. 



Mr. Adkin, a short series of Cupido ininimiis from Eastbourne, 

 where it was abundant and generally large in size with blue dusting, 

 in May last. 



Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, Zt/ijaena ajit/njllidis, '/,. traitsalpina and Z. 

 scahid.sae sent from the Pyrenees by Mr. 0. R. Goodman. 



Mr. F. B. Carr, larvae of Neiiioria viridata from Witherslack and 

 of Bapta ieiiierata from Horsley. 



Mr. Barnett, a series of Brenthh eiiphrosyne from S. Devon, and 

 K}iiatni(ia atmnaria taken as late as June 22nd. 



