316 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



wonderful weather ! Amongst innumerable Epinephele ianira, I had 

 the good fortune to see, and capture, in Denny Wood, a very fine male 

 with a large symmetrical cream-coloured area in both upper and lower 

 wings. On my visit in 1903 I took a quite white specimen of Cceno- 

 nympha pamphilus, similar to one I caught in Norfolk some twelve 

 years ago. It seems possible, however, that these white varieties of 

 ( '. pamphilus are merely faded. Valesina was first seen on July 8th. 

 In all I counted eleven between then and the 20th, and many of them 

 were unaccountably damaged. Vanessa polychloros appeared on July 

 17th, and Lycana argiolus on the same date. Thecla quercus seemed 

 quite rare, and I did not see more than a dozen all the time. Limenitis 

 sibylla was abundant in many parts of the forest. I was anxious to 

 net Aputura iris. Its larvffi may be obtained here for a few pence, or 

 they may be beaten from sallow ; but these are unworthy methods of 

 securing such a noble insect. It was not, however, till my last day's 

 collecting, on July 20th, that I got within reach of iris. Then, in a 

 riding of Wood Fidley, I stalked one as it sat' upon a frond of bracken, 

 and with a lucky stroke bagged my first emperor, or, to be more 

 correct, empress. I think the satisfact/on of netting A. iris must 

 rather exceed that of the man who purchases the larva, even at a 

 reduced price for taking a quantity. It was warm work, those July 

 days in the forest ridings, when the Loudon thermometers stood in the 

 eighties, and few things can equal the pleasure with which, having 

 shaken off the swarm of pursuing flies, one attacks one's tea (those 

 New Forest teas !) after such a day spent in tramping the heaths and 

 woods, and sprinting after elusive Lepidoptera. — S. L. Orford 

 Young, M.B. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — October 18th, 1905. — Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr. Charles 

 William Bracken, B.A. (Lond.), of 18, Whiteford Road, Mannamead, 

 Plymouth ; and Mr. William Hubert St. Quentin, of Scampton Hall, 

 Rillington, York, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. H. Row- 

 land-Brown exhibited series of Erebias taken this year in the Pyrenees, 

 including Erebia lefebvrei, with the vars. pyrenaa, Obth., from Mont 

 Canigou, E. Pyrenees, and var. intermedia, Obth., from Gavarnie. He 

 also showed, for comparison, E. glacialis var. nicholli from Campiglio, 

 which at one time was supposed to be identical with lefebvrei, then con- 

 sidered to be the Pyrenean form of E. melas. With them were arranged 

 specimens of E. gorgone and E. gorge from the Lac de Gaube, Cauterets, 

 and from Gavarnie ; and a short series of Lycana orbitulus from the Central 

 Alps, L. orbitulus var. oberthuri, Stgr., L. pyrenaica, and L. pheretes from 

 the Brenner and Cortina districts. It was remarked that there seemed to 

 be a greater superficial affinity betweenpyrenaica&n&p/m-eies (not reported 

 from the Pryenees) than between pyrenaica and orbitulus. — Mr. E. C. Bed- 

 well, eight specimens of Apion lavigatum, Kirby, one of the rarest indi- 

 genous Apions, found on August 31st, sheltering under plants of Echium 



