﻿344 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



three hundred feet of the crowberry line some minutes later. — 

 C. Mellows ; The College, Bishop's Stortford. 



EUROIS OCCULTA AND COSMIA PALEACEA IN YORKSHIRE. — This 



species is in its old York habitat this year. One specimen came to 

 sugar on the night of July 24th. Mr. Walker tells me that the 

 species had not been seen in the locality for several years. C. paleacea 

 was very abundant at sugar the same night. — C. Mellows. 



Further Additions to the Gloucestershire List of Lepi- 

 DOPTERA. — Thanks to Mr. E. Meyrick's kindness in identifying the 

 specimens I am able to add the following species to our county list : — 

 Mompha {Laverna) lacteella, " curious abnormal dark form, the 

 whitish ochreous area obscured by dark fuscous suffusion," taken on 

 March 28th and April 9th, 1912, on the window of a railway station 

 on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean ; Aristotelia {Dorypliora) 

 pulveratella, taken on the Cotswolds on April 25th, 1912, flying in 

 the afternoon ; and Coleophora dcauratella, also taken on the wing 

 in the afternoon sunshine near Gloucester on May 19th, 1912. — 

 C. Granville Clutterbuck ; 23, Heathville Eoad, Gloucester, 

 November 8th, 1912. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entobiological Society of London. — Wednesdaij, October 2nd, 

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

 Lily Huie, Hollywood, Colinton Eoad, Edinburgh, was elected a 

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

 Fellow, Prof. L. Ganglbauer, of Vienna, and also of Messrs. E. 

 Shelford, M.A., F.Z.S.; E. A. Fitch, F.L.S. ; and G. H. Grosvenor, 

 M.A. — Dr. Nicholson showed three specimens of Adalia ohliterata, L., 

 ab. suhlineata, Weise, an aberration not as yet recorded from Britain. 

 — Mr. G. T. Porritt, various forms of the variety nigrosparsata, 

 together with the type specimen of the var. nig}-a of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, all bred from larv£e and pupte collected from one 

 garden at Huddersfield during the present year. — Commander J. J. 

 Walker, series of the following rare species of British Coleoptera, 

 recently taken in the Oxford district : — Lathrobium pallidum, Nord. : 

 Apion annulipes, Wenck., male and female; and Psylliodes liUeola, 

 Mlill. Also a specimen of the so-called " insect-catching grass " 

 {Cenchnis australis), from Cairns, N. Queensland, with several 

 Coleoptera, belonging to various genera, adhering to the spinous 

 awns.— Mr. E. M. Prideaux, a beautiful aberration of P. cardui, 

 closely resembling one figured by Newman. — Mr. C. J. Gahan, a 

 small series of Phromnia supcrba, Meiich, a dimorphic species of 

 Homoptera of the subfamily Flatina, taken by Dr. A. C. Parsons in 

 Northern Nigeria, and read a letter received from Dr. Parsons to 

 explain the great interest attaching to the specimens. — Mr. W. A. 

 Lamborn, a series of twelve Homoptera of the genus Flata, all taken 

 feeding on one plant, seventy miles east of Lagos, on December 1st, 

 1911. The insects were dimorphic, and he stated that the pink and 

 green forms were mixed as they rested on the plant. — Prof. Poulton, 



