﻿346 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" On the 15th July, 1912, I came across Erebia glacialis in some 

 numbers on a scree slope belov/ the summit of the Colette de Gily, 

 Dauphiny, and saw a female alight on a piece of loose rock on the 

 slope, sun itself for a time and then proceed to walk slowly back- 

 wards until it reached the lower end of the rock. It then bent its 

 abdomen underneath the slab of rock and deposited an egg on the 

 lower surface of it. I subsequently observed a second female behave 

 in precisely the same manner, and eventually deposit an egg on the 

 under side of a detached slab of rock on the scree slope." — The 

 President exhibited a species of Osmia and its cell, found three and a 

 half years ago, beside a little stream at Jericho, and which only 

 emerged during the Oxford Congress this year. — Mr. H. Baker Sly, 

 a very dark example of Brenthis selene, having the under wings 

 clouded with dark brown all over, except for a slightly lighter shaded 

 spot in the middle, and the upper wings very heavily clouded with 

 dark brov/n ; it was taken in Worth Forest, Sussex, May 26th, 1912. 

 He also showed a specimen of Epinephele ianira, one upper wing 

 having a white blotch at the tip, and also the under wing on the 

 same side with a white streak, taken at Box Hill, August 11th, 1912. 

 The following papers were read : — •" Life-history of Lonchcea chorea," 

 by A. E. Cameron, M.A., B.Sc. ; communicated by H. S. Leigh, F.B.S. 

 " A Few Observations on Mimicry," by W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. — George 

 Wheeler, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— July 11th. — Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Dennis exhibited galls from the poplar-tree made by two 

 species of Aphis, Pemphigus hursarius and P. spirotheciE, the former of 

 a pyriform shape on the petiole, and the latter of a spiral shape, also 

 on the petiole. — Miss Fountaine, a fine set of examples, mostly bred 

 by herself, of species of Callidryas from the West Indies and South 

 Africa, with the large species of Gonepteryx from America. — Mr. Main, 

 living larviB of Pyrameis cardui from Eastbourne, and a fine series of 

 Pieris napi and var. hryonice, the results of recent experiments.^ 

 Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, a bred specimen of Charaxes jasiiis from Sicily, 

 and made remarks on the spring and early summer of the present 

 year in that island. — Mr. Step, photographs of the leaves of the maple 

 and sycamore, with the cases of the sawfly larva, Pkyllotoma aceris, 

 and remarked on the occurrence of the species at Ashtead and Ox- 

 shott. Several other members had also met with the species. — -Mr. 

 Adkin, the cocoon of Platysamia cecropia, previously shown by 

 Mr. Dods, and pointed out that the inner envelope of the cocoon was 

 reversed, hence the imago had to emerge from the wrong end of the 

 outer envelope. He also showed several bred series of Goremia ferru- 

 gata, and read notes on the variation. — Mr. H. Moore, a variety of 

 Papilio phorcas from Africa, in which the veins were margined with 

 white on the green areas of both wings. — Mr. Sich, the pupa-cases of 

 Libythea celtis, showing that the pupa lies in a horizontal position 

 under a leaf without a girdle, and also white egg-shells of Gerura 

 vinula found in Sussex. — Mr. Edwards, two large species of Eastern 

 Satyridte, Neorina hilcla and N. crishna. 



July 25^/i.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S. , President, in the chair.— 



