336 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Entomological Club Meetings. — July 5th, 1913, at Jesus 

 College, Oxford. Professor E. B. Poulton in the chair. Other 

 Members present were Mr. Horace Donisthorpe and Mr. W. Borrer 

 (Hon. Member). 



July 12th, 1913, at the Hand and Spear Hotel, Weybridge. Mr. 

 Porritt in the chair. Other Members present were Mr. E. Adkin, 

 Mr. H. Donisthorpe, Mr. T. W. Hall, and Mr. A. Sich ; also Mr. E. 

 South (Hon. Member). 



October 24th, 1913, at Stanhope, The Crescent, Croydon. Mr. 

 T. W. Hall in the chair. The other Members present were Mr. E. 

 Adkin, Mr, H. Donisthorpe, Mr. H. Eowland-Brown, and Mr. A. 

 Sich ; also Mr. J. E. Collin and Mr. E. A. Smith (Hon. Members). 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, October 1st, 

 1913.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, E.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Herr Wilhelm Junk, 68, Sachsische-strasse, Berlin, W. 15, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Mr. H. F. Bartlett exhibited a 

 specimen of Haplotliorax hurchellii found under a stone on the lower 

 part of Flagstaff Hill, St Helena, on March 25th, 1913.— Mr. P. A. 

 Buxton, specimens of larval and imaginal Embiidae (species as yet un- 

 determined) from various localities in Tunis and Algeria and from the 

 coast to south of the Atlas Mountains. — Mr. E. E. Green, a Drilid (?) 

 beetle, from Ceylon, with remarkable elongate spatulate mandibular 

 and maxillary palpi. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, on behalf of Mr. G. T. Lyle, 

 some silk wound from a Braconid cocoon, together with specimens of 

 the cocoons themselves. — Mr. C. B. Williams, specimens of the 

 cocoons of the three British Coniopterygids. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 several boxes of Lepidoptera in illustration of the geographical rela- 

 tions of Mimicry. — Prof. Poulton read an extract from a letter 

 written by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, showing that the hijJi^ocoon 

 form at Chirinda in S. E. Ehodesia is, genetically, just as pre- 

 dominant as the cenea form is in the Durban district. — ^Dr. Burr 

 exhibited a specimen of Diestrammena marmorata, Haan, a Stenopel- 

 matid Locustid from Japan, which occurs alive in Eelf's Nursery at 

 St. Leonard's. — Mr. H. Eowland-Brown, an example of Araschnia 

 levana, sent him by Mr. T. Butt Ekins, of Penarth, who said that he 

 had captured it at the end of May this year, on the outskirts of the 

 Forest of Dean. — Commander J. J. Walker, a female Colias edusa, 

 F., taken by himself in the Isle of Sheppey, August 21st, 1913, in 

 which the margin of the hind wings was almost entirely clear golden 

 yellow. Also a specimen of a Ceramidia near G. chloroplegia, 

 Druce, taken by a lady in a fruiterer's shop in North Oxford ; no 

 doubt imported with fruit. Also the following Coleoptera : — 

 (1) a short series of the very rare Halticid beetle Psylliodes cyano- 

 •ptera, 111., taken in June, 1913, at Wood Walton Fen. (2) A specimen 

 of CoccineUa 10-punctata, L., var. confiuens, Harr., taken in the Isle of 

 Sheppey, June, 1912, and another very curious aberration of the same 

 beetle with golden yellow spots from Wytham Park, Berks, July 



