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from larch, as the branches are out of reach, but they readily fall into 

 the beating-tray, or inverted umbrella, when the lower branches of 

 Scotch fir are tapped. The caterpillar is green, striped with white- 

 yellow, and can readily be distinguished by its reddish head. There 

 is also a grey form with purplish, black-brown head. At present 

 the variety niqrofidvata would seem to have been observed only in 

 Shropshire, Cheshire, and North Lancashire. — J. Arkle ; 25, King 

 Street, Chester. 



The Scents of Butterflies.— A discourse upon this very inter- 

 esting subject was delivered by Dr. Dixey, at the Eoyal Institution, 

 on March 3rd last. It is fully reported in 'Nature' for August 3rd, 

 pp. 164-168. 



Public Exhibition of Butterflies. — The collection of butter- 

 flies, from all parts of the world (about 18,000 specimens), formed by 

 Mr. Walter Dannatt, F.Z.S., will be open to the public during three 

 weeks, dating from August 28th, at 400, Oxford Street. 



Referring to Mr. Claude Morley's note under the heading " By 

 the Way" in the August number of the 'Entomologist,' I think the 

 Germans have improved on the notice prohibiting sugaring on the 

 trees in the New Forest, as in the little valley at the head of the 

 Konigser they have put up a board to the efi'ect that anyone con- 

 victed of catching Parnassms apollo or taking away its larvae is liable 

 to a fine of 150 marks or three months' imprisonment. — H. H. S. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — June Qtli. — Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.Z.S., in the chair. — Mr. 

 H. W. Andrews exhibited many species of the dipterous family Syr- 

 phidoe, most of them being from Kent. — Capt. P. A. Cardew, an example 

 of Anarta cordigera from Rannoch, in which the hind margin and 

 base of the fore wings were of an unusually pale grey. — Mr. S. Blen- 

 karn, more than one hundred and fifty species of Coleoptera taken in 

 the Isle of Wight from April 23rd to May 10th, mostly Geodephaga. 

 Among them were Tachyusa umhratica and Galerucella calmariensis, 

 new to the district. — Mr. Gadge, a box of Lepidoptera set so that 

 the pin did not show through the thorax. — Mr. Edwards, a box of 

 the species comprising the genus Gharaxes, and a larva of Diloha 

 cceruleocejjhala feeding on laurel. — Dr. Chapman, living larvae of 

 Callophrijs avis from the South of France. 



July 15th. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Percy Harris, of Streatham Hill, was elected a member. — Mr. 

 Tonge, ova of Manduca atropos, dissected from a captured female by 

 the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows. They wore infertile, but an ovum laid 

 previously had produced a larva which he now exhibited in the third 

 instar. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner showed some remarkably light-coloured 

 pupae of Vanessa io from Clandon. — Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Biston 



