06 THK ICNTOMOLOGIST's KKCORU. 



Thk South London Entomological Society. 



AvtfHst 2it/i. — Mr. Barnett exhibited series of two forms of the 

 female of F>renthis aclene from S. Devon. 



Mr. Withycorabe, the larva of Limacodes testudo, beaten from oak at 

 Oxshott, with the Hemipteron AcontliosDina interstinctinn. 



Mr. Sims, examples of the large earwig, Labidura riparia, and 

 referred to its burrowing habits. He had seen a fly carried in the 

 forceps. 



Mr. Main, the spider Clotho durandi, found under stones in S. 

 France, with photographs of the structure of its snare, and read Fabre's 

 remariis on the species. 



Mr. Turner, exotic species of " whites," Pieridae, to show the 

 extreme development of brilliant coloration, with total, or almost total, 

 suppression of the white coloration on both surfaces. 



Mr. iiobert Adkin, pupae of Papilio machaon, three spun up on a 

 carrot-leaf, on the glass of the food-bottle, and on a dark stick amid 

 the food, respectively, were pale yellow-greenish. Seven spun up on 

 dark sticks leaning against the cage away from the food-plant were 

 putty-colored with broad black stripes along the sides, and wing cases 

 black, giving them a very dark appearance. 



September litlt, 1922. — The President in the chair. 



Exhibition of Orders other than Lepidoptera. — Mr. R. Adkin, 

 exhibited a large female of Sirex !/i)ias from Eastbourne, 70mm. in 

 expanse. 



Mr. W. J. Luoas, Orthoptera : a brown form of Ma)iti^ rdifiium 

 from Spain, 1911. Neuroptera : specimens of Palparea lihelliiloidea 

 from Sierra de Carboneva and Algeciras, Spain, 1911-12; Ne)noptera 

 bipennin from S. de Carboneva, A', coa from Corinth, and A", suuiata 

 from Macedonia and Syria. Hymenoptera ; two specimens of the rare 

 Methoca ichnetiijionides taken by himself in the New Forest, one on 

 August 27th of this year. 



Mr. H. W. Andrews, the Diptera: Diortria oelandica, found after 

 many years search near Farningham, Kent ; Catobomba ptjrastri, a ? 

 var. itnicolor from Shoreham, Kent; UropJiora cardin, bred from 

 thistle galls and its hymenopterous parasites, also from Shoreham. 



Mr. H. J. Turner, the curious " flue-brush " beetle, llhina bar- 

 hiroHtris (Ciirctdionidar), from Brazil. 



Mr. F. J. Coulson, var. hifiiscata of Xyhtphaaia inonoitli/p/ia. August 

 22nd, at Wiml)ledon Common, and a blackish speckled form of 

 Hoaniiia (feniiiian'a bred from ova from St. Leonards-on-Sea, with 

 normal forms, and var. perfmiiaria from Wandsworth. 



Mr. C. L. Withycombe, Orthoptera: Empusa ef/ena and Oedipnda 

 HeniKiiiira from S. France ; Psophus strididits from the Pyrenees ; and 

 a Mantid from the Straits Settlements with short prothorax and ill- 

 developed forelegs. 



Mr. Enefer, Coleoptera : (Heriia apivorus, Stranr/alia qiiadiifa.sciataf 

 both on cow-parsley; Lipanis (fernianns and a Longicorn, both on pine 

 logs; and a living f'arabus oiiratKs, all from Miirren, Switzerland. 

 He also showed a yellow crab-spider, a wolf -spider (Lijcosa), and the 

 orb-spider {Epeiru faaciata) from Clarens, L. of Geneva, and read notes 

 on the last-named species. 



