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SiREX GiGAS. — On July 22nd I found a large female specimen 

 of Sircv gigas crawling over a larch-tree, which had been cut 

 down during last winter from a small larch-plantation south-west 

 of Great Berkhampstead in North Hertfordshire. I have little 

 doubt that the insect had emerged from pupa in one of the trees 

 of this copse, for there did not seem to be any foreign timber for 

 more than a mile distant. — John T. Carrington ; July, 1888. 



British Museum. — Readers of the 'Entomologist' will be 

 glad to learn that the Insect Boom of the British Museum at 

 South Kensington has been enriched by the addition of the 

 collection of I^epidoptera formed by the late Dr. Pool, of 

 Tottenham, presented by his widow. The collection is contained 

 in three cabinets, is well arranged according to the 'Entomologist ' 

 List of Lepidoptera, and is in good condition. It contains some 

 rare and less common species. Although Dr. Pool had his 

 practice to attend to, he managed in a quiet way to form a nice 

 collection, most of his entomological work being done in the early 

 hours of the morning; and he was very successful in rearing 

 many species, one of his daughters assisting him in this work. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — July -ith, 1888. Dr. D. 

 Sharp, F.L.S., President, in the chair. The Hon. Lionel Walter 

 de Rothschild, of Tring Park, Tring, Hertfordshire, was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society, and Mr. George Meyer-Darcis was 

 admitted into the Society. Mr. Enock exhibited male and female 

 specimens of a spider received from Colonel Le Grice, R.A., 

 who had captured them at Folkestone on the 27th May last. 

 They had been submitted to the Rev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge, 

 F.R.S., who identified them as Pdlenes tripunctatus, a species 

 new to Britain. Mr. Enock also exhibited specimens of Merisus 

 destructor (Riley), a parasite of the Hessian Fly, bred from 

 British specimens of that insect. Mr. Wallis-Kew exhibited 

 a number of larvse of Adimonia tanaceti (Fab.), found in 

 Lincolnshire, feeding on Scabious. Mr. Porritt exhibited a 

 number of variable specimens of Arctia mendica bred from a 

 batch of eggs found last year on a species of Ramex near Hudders- 



