284 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — October 5th, 1905. — Mr. F. 

 Merrifield in the chair. — Mr. J. E. Davidson, of Druinsheugh Gardens, 

 Edinburgh, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — The decease was 

 announced of Mr. John William Douglas, the oldest Fellow of the 

 Society, who was elected in 1845 ; Mr. George Bowdler Buckton, and Mr. 

 Ambrose Quail. — The President announced that since the last meeting 

 the University of Oxford had conferred upon Commander J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., one of the Secretaries, the degree of M.A. honoris causa for 

 services to entomological science. — Mr. Edward Harris showed living 

 larvae of Cordylomera suturalis, taken from a log of mahogany imported 

 from the Sekoudi district of the Gold Coast, together with the perfect 

 insect, which was dead at the time the discovery was made. — Mr. A. 

 T. Bose exhibited a remarkable melanic specimen of Catocala nupta, 

 taken by Mr. Lewis in his garden at Hornsey, N., in September. The 

 coloration of the lower wings was of a dull brown, and all the markings 

 of the upper wings strongly intensified. — Mr. Norman H. Joy brought 

 for exhibition Coleoptera taken during a three days' trip to Lundy 

 Island in August, including Melanopthalma distinguenda, Cox, a species 

 new to Britain ; Stenus ossium var. insidaris, a variety new to science ; 

 and a series of Psylliodes luridipennis, Kuts., and Ceuthorrhynchus 

 contractus var. pallipes, Crotch, a form peculiar to the island. Mr. 

 Alfred Sich showed examples of Argyresthia ilium in at ell a, Z., two of 

 the four specimens taken near Hailsham, Sussex, on June 15th this 

 year. They were beaten off Pinus, and until examined with a lens 

 were supposed to be Ocnerostoma piniariella, of which species two were 

 also exhibited for comparison. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited the larva, 

 cocoon, and the subsequent imago of an " ant-lion," Myrmeleo forrrd- 

 carius, from two Spanish larvae given him by Dr. T. A. Chapman last 

 autumn. The difference in size between the small larva and the large 

 perfect insect was remarkable. He also showed a living female of the 

 rather scarce grasshopper Ktenobothrus rufipes, taken in the New Forest 

 at the end of August, and kept alive feeding on grass. — Mr. G. C. 

 Champion exhibited several examples of Lymexylon navale, L., from 

 the New Forest. — Mr. A. H. Jones showed series of Lyccena argus var. 

 hypochiona {agon, Schiff.), taken on the North Downs this year, 

 approaching the form of L. argyrognomon, taken not uncommonly in 

 the Rhone Valley. Together with these he had arranged for com- 

 parison typical British L. argus, L., L. var. Corsica, from Tattone, 

 Corsica, and a series of L. argyrognomon, Brgstr. (argus, auctorum) from 

 Chippis, near Sierre. — Colonel J. W. Yerbury exhibited specimens of 

 Hammer schmidti a ferruginea, Fin., the first authentic British specimens, 

 from Nethy Bridge ; JSlicrododon latifrons, Lw., wrongly identified at a 

 previous meeting as M. devius, and under this name so recorded in 

 Verrall's ' British Flies ' ; Chamasyophus scm-oides, Fin., a single speci- 

 men swept on June 15th, 1905, in the Abernethy Forest, near Forest 

 Lodge ; and Gynorrhina fallax, L., which insect occurred in some 

 numbers at Nethy Bridge during the same month.— Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited series of four species of the genus Coleophora, C. alcyoni- 

 pennelia, C. lixella, C. albitarsdla, and C. badiipennella, together with 



