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I should not like to conclude, upon this slender evidence, that the 

 Beaked Eush is the exclusive food. In all the damper parts of 

 the " moss," where C. typJion flies, Cotton-grass flourishes equally 

 with B. alba. On May 21st a specimen of Scodiona fagaria was 

 taken, our first intimation of the approaching early season. Seven 

 fresh Thanaos tages, one Ghrijsophaniis phloias, and several Euclidia 

 mi, were netted on the 23rd, and at dusk Coremia ferrugata, C. 

 designata, M. salicata, Hydriomena riiherata, Eulype hastata, and 

 Perizoma flavofasciata. Two Hipocrita jacohcece, were observed on a 

 street lamp at 12 p.m. Ova of Epione apiciaria, kept outside during 

 winter, did not begin to hatch till May 31st. The young larvte fed- 

 up well for three weeks, and then for no apparent reason died off. 

 Young larvffi of T. crepuscularia preferred buckthorn to oak, and 

 grew to an enormous size before pupating. Larvae of Amathes 

 lota were beaten from sallow at the end of the month. — Frank 



LiTTLEWOOD. 



(To be continued.) 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, February 1th, 

 1912.— The Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— The 

 President announced that he had nominated as Vice-Presidents for 

 the present session Mr. A. H. Jones, Dr. Malcolm Burr, and Mr. 

 J. H. Durrant. — Mr. W. E. Sharp exhibited specimens of Carpo- 

 philus 6-pustiLlatus, F., and G. obsoletus, Er., taken under bark of 

 beech-trees, near Doncaster, in October, 1912. — Professor Poulton, a 

 large but not quite complete series of the members of the important 

 combination of Geometrid moths of the genus Aletis, and their 

 mimics, collected between May 23rd, 1909, and September 14th, 

 1910, by Mr. C. A. Wiggins, D.P.M.O. of the Uganda Protectorate, 

 in the neighbourhood of Entebbe. Professor Poulton also exhibited 

 part of an ul\-anthedo7i family, recently bred by Mr. Lamborn at 

 Oni Camp, seventy miles east of Lagos, from an anthedon female 

 parent, and part of an a.\l-dubius family, also bred from an anthedon 

 female ; also specimens of the Lasiocampid moth, Mimopacha ger- 

 stackeri, Dewitz, bred from the caterpillars referred to by Mr. 

 Lamborn. The hairs on the larvae are intensely urticating, and, as 

 they come off readily, float in the air if thei"e is any draught. They 

 get into the eyes and produce a troublesome conjunctivitis. Pro- 

 fessor Poulton drew attention to the following observation recently 

 made by Mr. Lamborn at Oni : — " On December 27th I saw a male 

 GliUophrissa saba courting a female. She was resting on a leaf with 

 wings expanded. Her abdomen was raised to an angle of rather 

 more than forty-five degrees to the thorax, and two little tufts 

 very similar to those possessed by male DanainaB protruded from the 

 anal extremity." — Dr. Malcolm Cameron, a new species of Vesperus 

 from Lagos, Portugal, V. reitteri, and for comparison a specimen of 

 V. bolivari, Rtt. In both cases the females are unknown. — Mr. E. A. 



