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the same place. The only previous record of which he was aware of 

 the capture of this moth in the county was at Cheshunt, where Mr. 

 W. C. Boyd was fortunate enough to secure one on August 25th, 1868. 

 Sphinx convolvuli was several times reported during 1904, and Chcero- 

 campa porcellus was taken on July 2nd by Mr. Arthur Cottam, of Wat- 

 ford, flying over a honeysuckle-bush. The rapid spread of Plusia 

 moneta, which was becoming one of the commonest garden insects in 

 the district, was alluded to, and a long series of specimens reared from 

 larvae captured on aconite in the recorder's garden at Kitchener's 

 Meads, St. Albans, was shown, a short account of the life-history of 

 the species being given. Among the records of the year was the cap- 

 ture of Panolis piniperda near St. Albans, an insect which possessed a 

 special interest for them, as the first British specimen was taken 

 at Hertford in 1810 by Mr. J. F. Stevens, the father of English ento- 

 mology. Detailed reports of observations made during 1904 by Miss 

 A. Dickinson, of New Farm, near St. Albans ; Mr. Arthur Cottam, of 

 Eldercroft, Watford (who is unfortunately leaving the neighbourhood 

 very shortly to reside in Somersetshire) ; Mr. P. J. Barraud, of Bushey 

 Heath ; Mr. V. P. Kitchin, of Watford ; Mr. A. T. Goodson, of Tring ; 

 Mr. W. C. Boyd, of Waltham Cross ; Mr. A. H. Foster, of Hitchm ; 

 and the recorder were then presented to the Society. — A. E. Gibbs ; 

 Kitchener's Meads, St. Albans. 



Erratum. — P. 120, line 14 from bottom, for "early in March" 

 read " on February 21st." 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — March 15th, 1905. — Mr. F. 

 Merrifield, President, in the chair. — Sehor Don Ignacio Bolivar, of 

 Paseo de Becoletos Bajo, 20, and Calle Jorge Juan, 17, Madrid, was 

 elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society, in the place of Professor 

 F. M. Brauer, deceased. Mr. Frank P. Dodd, of Kuranda, via Cairns, 

 Queensland ; Mr. Cecil Floersheim, of 16, Kensington Court Mansions, 

 S.W. ; Mr. Joseph Lane Hancock, of 3757, Indiana Avenue, Chicago ; 

 and Mr. Herbert C. Bobinson, Curator of the State Museum, Kuala 

 Lumpur, Selangor, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. C. O. 

 Waterhouse announced tbat the late Mr. Alexander Fry, a Fellow of 

 the Society, had bequeathed his large and important collections of 

 Coleoptera to the British Museum. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited some 

 butterflies from Natal which had been presented by Mr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall to the Hope Department at Oxford, illustrating certain ex- 

 periments made with a view to determine whether the assumption of the 

 wet or dry season form of various African butterflies could be con- 

 trolled by exposure in the pupal state to artificial conditions of tempe- 

 rature and moisture. — Mr. W. E. Sharp, a specimen of the North 

 American Longicorn, Neoclytus erythrocephalus. He said the species 

 had been discovered in a sound ash-tree seven inches from the bark, 

 grown in the neighbourhood of St. Helens, Lancashire. Some palings 

 of American ash in the vicinity suggested the origin of the progenitors 



