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Culbins, the small birch-bushes gave larvae of Notodonta dromedarius 

 and Acronycta leporina, and those on Buckie Loch, numbers of 

 DemcLs coryll, Orijyia antiqiia, N. dromedarius, Eiinomos tiliaria and 

 E. angularia, Phalera huccphala, and one Centra furcula. Working 

 there at dusk was most disappointing, as we took nothing but G. 

 munitata and Phibalapteryx lignata. At Kinloch, Rannoch, I con- 

 fined myself entirely to the south side of the loch, and except for one 

 fruitless journey to the Black Wood never went farther than Cairie. 

 One day after Larcntia flavicinctata only gave me four specimens, 

 but L. ccssiata was very common. I also took a dozen or so Carsia 

 imhutata, but they were getting worn, and I released most of them. 

 I saw no D. obfuscata at all. Larvae comprised N. ziczac, N. drome- 

 darius, A. leporina, G. or, G. duplaris, 0. antiqua, D. coryli, S. 

 populi, S. ocellatits, N. dictceoides, G. furcula, &c. The last-named I 

 beat from sallow, but on arriving home, being pressed for room, I 

 put them in a breeding-cage in which were other larvae of various 

 sorts feeding on aspen, and, to my surprise, the furcula entirely for- 

 sook the sallow and fed on the aspen ! My nights were spent 

 watching heather-blossom on the flat at the south-east corner of 

 the loch, and .the bag contained representatives of S. anomala, N. 

 daJdii, D. suspecta, N. glareosa, and E. lutulenta. The last day of my 

 visit (x\ugust 19th) I took six Polia clii (quite normal) off the road- 

 side walls. The number of insects taken altogether was not great, 

 though they comprised a good variety. Larvae I found very scarce, 

 except perhaps at Buckie Loch and in Cairie Wood. But I much 

 enjoyed the Scotch air and the beautiful weather. — Percy C. Reid ; 

 Feering Bury, Kelvedon, September 9th, 1911. 



Erratum.— Page 324, line 29, for "I. C. Gunton" read " H. C. 

 Gunton " ; and Hne 30, for "August 9th " read " September 9th." 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, June 7tii, 

 1911. — The Eev. F. D. Morice, President, in the chair. — The 

 Secretary observed that he had exceeded his instructions with regard 

 to the Memorial passed at the last meeting, on the subject of the 

 South Kensington site, and had sent it to the ' Times,' where it had 

 appeared, and to the principal Press Associations, as well as (at the 

 request of Mr. Waterhouse) to the Director of the Natural History 

 Museum. — Commander J. J. Walker exhibited specimens of JJary- 

 pithes peUucidus, Boh., from Oxford, Enfield, and Tavistock respec- 

 tively, and for comparison, B. duplicatus, Keys, from the Blean 

 Woods and Birchington, Kent. Also a series of specimens illus- 

 trating the life-history of Cyclotorna, Meyrick, a genus of myrmeco- 

 philous Lepidoptera, from Queensland, sent by Mr. F. P. Dodd with 

 his paper on the insects subsequently read. — Mr. Donisthorpe, live 

 specimens of Antemiophorus ulilmanni, Haller, on the hermaphro- 

 dites from a nest of Lasius umbratus at Woking. Only two speci- 

 mens have been taken before in Britain, by Michael, in an ant's nest 



