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if not its survival, having been in great measure due to him ; the out- 

 line of a scheme was also propounded for an annual gathering on the 

 day before the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society to replace 

 as far as possible the very enjoyable meetings at which for many years 

 Mr. Verrall was so generous and genial a host. — G.W. 



In the November number of the Ent. Mo. Maif. Mr. J. Hartley 

 Durrant describes two species of Hh>/acionia = Hctina= Kvetna, new to 

 the British fauna. They are //. hxjaea, which species will probably be 

 found in collections under the name of U. duplana, which latter, how- 

 ever, is shown to be not a British species, and R. piirdeyi, an insect 

 taken sparingly at Folkestone during the past year by Mr. W. 

 Purdev. 



Inthe same number, Mr. J. E. Collin concludes his additions to the 

 British List of Diptera with the following species : — Udinia holetina 

 from fungi in the New Forest ; Auroiinjza albitarsis from Hereford, 

 Kent, Cambs., etc. ; A. posticata irom Herefordshire; A. abioin from 

 Orford ; A. carbnnaria ivomBurtiovd; A. laterella, not uncommon ; A. 

 rittv/era from Newmarket and Bonhill ; A. rerbasci from mined 

 ]'('i-bascn})i leaves; A. afiieivcntris, not uncommon ; A. ctnictauf;, common ; 

 A. iiiaKva, widely distributed ; A. sivijdc.r, sweeping asparagus beds in 

 Suffolk ; Cerodonta sj)inicornis from Cambs., Norfolk and Suffolk ; 

 C. lateralis in the Oxford Collection (Dale's) ; Xapomi/za nii/iiceps from 

 Cambs. and Suffolk ; I'liijtoiiii/za ni;/ritella from Chippenham and 

 Bonhill ; P. morio from Suffolk ; P. fiiscula from Newmarket ; P. 

 veronicae bred from leaves of Veronica ; P. crassiseta from Chippenham 

 and Bonhill ; P. am/elicae from mined leaves of Anyelica, Cambs ; P. 

 ruficornis from Kent, Sussex, Surrey, etc. : P.ptdlnla from Newmarket, 

 and /'. tridentata, one from Suffolk. 



In the December number of the same magazine Mr. Norman H. 

 Joy describes two species of British Coleoptera as new to science. 

 Bleditis aecerdendus is closely allied to B. (/renarius, with which it has 

 hitherto been mixed. It occurs at Dovercourt, Dawlish, Tresco, and 

 Co. Kerry. Rliynchites harwoodi has hitherto been mixed with R. nanae 

 and R. uncinatus, from which Mr. .Joy now separates it. It has 

 occurred in both Berks and Hants. 



In the August number of the Zeit. fiir uiss. Insektenbiolot/ie, Count 

 Turati gives a short account of Sardinia and its lepidopterous fauna, 

 with several figures of peculiar forms. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Aoveiiiber 1st, 1911. — The 

 President announced that the Council proposed Fr. Eric Wasmann, 

 of Valkenburg, Holland, as Honorary Fellow in the place of the late 

 Herr P. C. T. Snellen, of Rotterdam, and Prof. J. H. Comstock, of 

 Cornell University, U.S.A., for the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. 

 S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, both of whom were then 

 elected. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society 

 — Messrs. T. J. Anderson, Teaninich, Craig Millar, Midlothian ; 

 Edward Bernard Ashby, 33, Park Road, Whitton, Middlesex ; W. A. 

 Lambourn, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Omi Camp, Lagos, W. Africa; J. 

 Jackson Mounsey, 24, Glencairn Crescent, Edinburgh. A Scarce 

 Coleopteron. — Dr. Nicholson showed a specimen of Aleochara 



