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one or two specimens, but had never found their haunt. This year, 

 however, on July 20th, I canie upon it not two hundred yards from 

 where I had been searching before. They were in the utmost pro- 

 fusion on the side of a chalk-hill, and very pretty the males looked as 

 the sun caught the sheen of their wings. A second brood of L. an/iolus 

 was also out on that date, and Sati/rus seviele appeared plentifully. On 

 July 19th the first imago of my Knnomos fuscantaria appeared, and 

 they are still coming out at intervals. In a field near Coldharbour, on 

 Aug. 7th, a friend of mine took a fine male of CoHas hyalc, but I have 

 not been able to go there since. 



I am now staying near Lynton, in North Devon, and have only had 

 one day's entomology — iVug. 19th — when I took my net along the Lyn 

 Valley for about five miles. Arijynnia paphia was very common and 

 easy to catch, but, except for one fresh female, all were in bad con- 

 dition. A. adippe was to be seen, too, also in poor condition. Any 

 number of Paraiye egerides could be taken among the trees and wood- 

 land paths, and such things as L. icanis, Polyommatas phlceas, Kpine- 

 phiie ianira, and E. tithonns were absolutely swarming. I took two 

 fine specimens of Vanessa io, and one V. polyc/doros. A. paphia showed 

 a great liking for the bramble -bushes, and also for thistles, from which 

 latter it could easily be taken. But my trip to Devonshire is more for 

 health's sake than for entomology, and so my notes for August are, I 

 fear, somewhat scanty. — F. A. Oldaker ; Parsonage House, Dorking, 

 Aug. 20th, 1901. 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July 11th, 1901.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Kemp exhibited a short series of the Coleopteron DyUscus 

 punctulatus, taken by Mr. F. Enock at Wisley, together with the 

 Odonata, Brachytron pratense, Calopteryx splendens, Erythromma naias, 

 Agrinn pulchellnm, hchnura eleyans, with var. r»6ra ; the Trichoptera, 

 Phryyanea yrandis, Limnophilas marworatus, and L. rhoiiihicus; and the 

 Neuropteron, Fuiphidia macalkoUix, all taken at the Byfleet Field 

 Meeting.— Mr. F. M. B. Carr, a series of Theda ruhi from Wrotham, 

 Kent, including a specimen with a cream spot on the fore wings.— 

 Mr. South, a series of Zojumnna purata, bred from a female taken at 

 Oxshott, and called attention to the unusual brown coloration of some 

 of the specimens ; also an example of Ewrhypara urticata with con- 

 fluent spots, taken by a boy in Balham. On behalf of Mr. Mitford he 

 showed three varieties of Melitcea cinxia (1) having transverse lines of 

 fore wings absent, (2) central transverse lines partially effaced, (3) 

 central spots of fore wings confluent.— Mr. Montgomery, pupa? of 

 Leucophasia sinapis, one specimen having the longitudinal line pmk 

 instead of white.— Mr. Bishop, living larvfe of Euyonia polychloros, 

 and pupc^ of Euchloe cardami)ies.—Mv. Kirkaldy, various genera of 

 Fulyorhm (lantern flies), showing the remarkable development of the 

 head ; a number of ornate species of Ehynchota, including the pale 

 blue Ramenia pulveridenta, the pale green Geisha punctatissma, the 

 delicate rose Cerynia maria, and a number of coffee pests from Ceylon. 



