148 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Argynnis SELENE IN Jerset. — Oil Aug. 19th, 1893, Mr. J. Norman, 

 an entomologist of this island, had the good fortune to take a fritillary, 

 afterwards identified by Mr. LufF, of Guernsey, as a small specimen of 

 Argynnis selene. I was with him at the time of the capture, and saw the 

 insect before he succeeded in netting it. It was flying over a bed of yellow 

 iris, on the borders of a small stream in a valley at Rozel. This is an 

 important capture, as A. selene, although common in England, had never 

 before been observed in Jersey, or indeed any of the Channel Islands. — 

 Stanley Guiton; 31, Bath Street, Jersey. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — February 'Jth, 1894. Henry 

 John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the chair. The President 

 announced that he had nominated the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. ; Professor Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. ; and 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-Presidents of the 

 Society for the session 1894-95. Mr. Walter F. Baker, of 18, Hyde 

 Terrace, Leeds ; Mr. Percy M. Bright, of Eoccabruna, Bournemouth ; 

 Professor Lewis Compton Miall, F.R.S., of the Yorkshire College, 

 Leeds ; and Mr. Edwin Wilson, of Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited, on 

 behalf of Mr. J. M. Adye, a specimen of Plusia moneta, Fabr., which 

 had been captured at Christchurch, Hants, and remarked that this 

 species, which had been found in this country for the first time so 

 recently as June, 1890, was apparently becoming a permanent resident 

 here, as it had been since taken in several of the southern counties. 

 The food-plant, Aconiium napellus, though rare in England as a wild 

 plant, was very common in gardens. Mr. Jenner Weir also exhibited 

 a nearly black specimen of Veniiia macularia, L., the yellow markings 

 being reduced to a few small dots. Mr. Hamilton Druce exhibited a 

 female specimen of Hypochrysops scintillans, lately received by him 

 from Mioko, New Ireland. He said that only the male of this species 

 had been as yet described. Mr. F. Enock exhibited a nest of the 

 British Trap-door Spider, Atyjnis piceus, recently found near Hastings 

 by Mrs. Enock. Mr. W. F. H. Blandford stated that he had recently 

 obtained an additional species of Scoly to -platypus from Japan, which, 

 though closely allied to the species he had formerly described, showed 

 a very distinct modification of the male prosternum. Mr. M. Jacoby 

 exhibited and remarked on a specimen of Leptispa pygmma, Baly, 

 which was doing much injury to sugar-cane in the Bombay Presidency 

 of India. Mr. G. C. Champion stated that he had found an allied 

 species on bamboo. Dr. I'. A. Dixey read a paper — which was 

 iiiubtrated by the oxy hydrogen lantern — entitled " On the Phylogeny 

 of the i'ieiincE. as illustrated by their wing-markings and geographical 

 distribution." A long discussion ensued, in which the President, 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, Mr. Jacoby, Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Jenner Weir, 

 Mr. Hauipson, and Mr. Kenrick took part. Dr. T. A. Chapman read 

 a paper eniiiled " Some notes on those species of Micro-Lepidoptera, 

 allied to Micropteryx, whose larvse are external feeders, and chiefly on 



