230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History 

 Society.— .4j;ri/ Vdth, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Miss Alderoon, F.E.S., of Worksop, was elected a mem- 

 ber. — Mr. Ashdown exhibited about one hundred species of conspicuous 

 coleoptera taken by liim in Switzerland during July, 1910. — ^Mr. 

 Turner, living specimens of Agapanthia asphodelas, sent to him by 

 Dr. Chapman from Hy6res. — Mr. Adkin, an undetermined Agrotid 

 from the Isle of Lewis, a Sciaphila from Unst, probably referable to 

 S. colquJiounana, and a Pyrameis cardui in which the row of spots on 

 the hind wings were united into an irregular blotch. — Mr. Newman, 

 on behalf of Mr. Oliver, a bred series oi Aphantopus hyyeranthus which 

 had emerged in January and February. The larvge had fed all the 

 winter on Poa annua. — ^ix. Hemming, series of Brentkis selene from 

 Warwick and Sussex ; the former were a much larger race in both 

 sexes. 



April 27th, 1911.— The President in the chair.— Mr. P. A. Buxton, 

 of Tonbridge, was elected a member. — Mr. Tonge exhibited a pupa 

 case of ^geria andrenceformis as found in situ, projecting from the 

 burrow after the emergence of the imago. He had found four such 

 cases in nature. — Mr. Kaye, a similar exhibit with the living imago 

 which had emerged in confinement, and a fine plant of the Mexican 

 orchid, Cattleya citrina, in flower. — Mr. R. Adkin, a remarkable 

 gynandrous specimen of Bombyx quercus, with left antenna and wings 

 male and right antenna and wings female, but of the male colour. It 

 was from the Capper collection. — Mr. Newman, a larva of Gallimorpha 

 dominula, black in colour without the yellow markings. — Mr. Andrews, 

 two examples of tlie recently identified dipteron Hilaria acvonctlia 

 from North Kent. — Mr. St. Aubyn, photographs of Lepidoptera at 

 rest. — Mr. Gough, a dwarf example of Celastrina argiolus. — Messrs. 

 Edwards and Turner, several species of Papilio from North America, 

 from the viachaon and glaucus groups. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs gave an ac- 

 count of the arrangements for the South Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies Congress at St. Albans in June. — Mr. Dennis showed lantern 

 slides of lichens and flowers. — Mr. Main showed a series of lantern 

 slides illustrating his observations on the life-history of the common 

 myriapod. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



City op London Entomological Society. — A2)ril AtJi, 1911. — 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited series of Noctua baia and Cidaria 

 imiuanata taken in Epping Forest in July, 1910, at rush blossom, on 

 an occasion when sugar failed to attract Lepidoptera. 



Ap)ril 18th, 1911.^ — Mr. Huggins, two specimens of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, with black nervures on hind wings. He also exhibited 

 a somewhat dark example of Ennomos alniaria from Gravesend, and 

 stated that the species seemed to be getting gradually darker in that 

 district. — Mr. J. Eiches, fifteen bred specimens of Macrothylacia 

 rubi, all that emerged from a brood of about forty larvae. — Mr. V. E. 

 Shaw, a long series of Triplicena comes bred August, 1903, ex Findhorn 

 ova, including vars. clarkii, nigrescens, pallida, rufescens, and curtisii, 

 and also forms intermediate between clarkii-nigrescens and pallida' 

 rufescens. 



