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which have done so much to extend our knowledge of the distribution 

 of our British Beetles.— W. E. S. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological, Society of London. — (frtobcr 2n(l, 1912. — 

 Miss Lily Huie, Hollywood, Colinton Road, Edinburgh, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. The death was announced of the Hon. Fellow, 

 Prof. L. Ganglbauer, of Vienna, and also of Messis R. Shelford, M.A., 

 F.Z.S.,E. A.' Fitch, F.L.S., and G. H. Grosvenor, M.A. An Aberra- 

 tion New to Britain. — Dr. Nicholson showed three specimens of Adalia 

 oblitcrata, L., ab. snldiueata, Weise, an aberration not as yet recorded 

 from Britain. Dark aberrations of Abraxas grossulariata.- — Mr. G. 

 T. Porritt exhibited various forms of the variety ninrosparsatn, together 

 with the type specimen of var. nigra. Coleoptera from Oxford. — 

 Commander J. J. Walker exhibited series of the following rare species 

 of British Coleoptera, recently taken in the Oxford district : — Lathro- 

 biidii pallidinii, Nord., Apiinu annulipea, Wenk., J and $ , Psj/lliodes 

 luteola, Miill. "Insect-catching Grass." — Commander Walker also 

 exhibited on behalf of Mr. A. M. Lea, a specimen of the so-called 

 Insect-catching grass [Cenchnts aitstralis) from Cairns, N. Queensland, 

 with several ('oleoptera, belonging to various genera, adhering to the 

 spinous awns. Aberration of Pyrameis cardqi. — Mr. R. M. Prideaux 

 brought for exhibition a beautiful aberration of P. cardui, closely 

 resembling one figured by Newman. Dimorphic Homoptera. — Mr. C. 

 J. Gahan exhibited a small series of Fhroinnia siiperba, Melich, a 

 dimorphic species of Homoptera of the sub-family Flatinac, taken by 

 Dr. A. C. Parsons in Northern Nigeria. West African Homoptera. — 

 Mr. W. A. Lamborn exhibited a series of twelve Howuptcra of the 

 genus hlata, all taken feeding on one plant, 70 miles E. of Lagos, on 

 December 1st, 1912. Euciielia jacob.e.e, L., captured and then 

 abandoned by a Robin. — Prof. Poulton exhibited an apparently un- 

 injured example of E. jacubaeae given him by Mr. Roland Trimen, 

 F.R.S. The moth was flying slowly at midday in his garden at 

 Woking, when a robin captured it on the wing and flew with it behind 

 a bush. After about three minutes the bird flew away, and Mr. 

 Trimen found the moth lying upon the ground. Aberrations of 

 Alpine Lyc.enids. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited several unusual 

 forms of some common "Blues" taken this year in the Valley of 

 the Iscre and at Courmayeur. He said that the "blues" of this 

 region are generally large and more than usually variable ; and that it 

 is also the head-quarters in Western Europe of Ai/riades ale.vita^, Frr. 

 Scarce Ants. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a number of J <? of Ponera 

 (•(larctata which he had swept at Box Bill, and remarked that no one 

 living appeared to have taken J J in Britain. Also c? <T , $ $ , and 

 ^ ^ of P'ormicoxoiKs nitididtts, taken in a nest of P\ riifa at 

 Weybridge. Also 3- 3 , 5 ? , and ^ ^ of Leptotlwrax tiibero-olfinis, a 

 form new to Britain. Also a 3 , and wmged and deiilated ? $ of 

 Anen/ati'x atratiilus, which lives in. the nests of TctrainuriKin racspitiiin. 

 Celastrina argiolus on a new Food-plant. — Mr. Hy. .7. Turner 

 exhibited on behalf of the Rev. C. R. N. P>urrows, a long series of bred 

 ( 'dastrina an/ialKs. The larvie had occurred each year for some time 

 past in the garden at Mucking, feeding on Portugal laurel, attacking 

 the flower buds in the early summer. The form closely resembled the 

 Nearctic form pseudanjlolus. The Genus Dianthoecia. — Mr. L. W. 



