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Notes from Hants. — The following species seem to have been early 

 on the wilier this year: — Eucldo'e cardamines and Lycmia air/iolus, April 

 loth; Asthena candidata, 15th; Pieris brassica;, and Bapta hiinaculata 

 (=: taviinata), 16th. — W. M. Christy ; Watergate, Emsworth, Hants. 



Capturks in Oxfordshire. — On May 25th I succeeded in capturing 

 live freshly emerged specimens of Nemeohius lucina in Bagley Woods, near 

 Oxford. In the same place I came across larvae of Tethea retusa and 

 TainiocamjM mimosa in abundance. I have been up since with a friend 

 beating for larvae, and we obtained Thecla quercus, Pcecilocampa poimli, 

 Dasijclura fascelina, Hylojjhlla bkolorana (= Halias quercana), &c. The 

 trees are absolutely stripped by Chelniatohia brumata, Tceniocampa gothica, 

 Cahjmnia tmpezina, Hybernia defoliaria, Phiyalia jiedaria (= pilosaria) 

 and numerous other larvae, — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn ; Hertford 

 College, Oxford, June 4th, 1894. 



Captures in Argyllshire. — A considerable number of larvae of 

 Melitaa artemis takeu April 15 th, on rough pasture land close to the sea 

 (Sound of Jura), feeding on devil's-bit scabious. The first perfect insect 

 emerged June 7th, having attained the chrysalis stage May 9th. A few 

 larvae are still feeding. Thecla rubl has been very abundant here; also 

 Anjrjnnis euphrosyne. April 25th, Macroglossa steUatarwn \ 13th, Phlogo- 

 phora meticillosa (abundant); 22nd, Numeria jndveraria; 2.3rd, I'aiiayra 

 petraria; 29th, Melanippe hastata. June 6th, Arctiafidiyinosa. Larvae 

 of Bonibyx quercus pletitiful on heather. — (Miss) M. L. Cottingham ; 

 Kilberry, Argyllshire, June 10th. 



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Entomological Society of London. — June bth, 1894. — Henry John 

 Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the chair. Dr. K. Jordan, of "The 

 Museum," Tring, and the Honble. Nathaniel C. Rothschild, of Tring 

 Park, Tring, were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. W. F. H. 

 Blandford exhibited a series of eleven male specimens of Phina 

 barbirnstris from British Honduras, of which the largest and smallest 

 examples measure respectively 60 and 17 mm. The difference in bulk, 

 supposing the proportions to be identical, is as 43 to 1. He remarked 

 that this variation of the size is especially common in the Brenthidse, 

 CossonidaB, and other wood-boring Coleoptera. The President, Dr. 

 Sharp, the Rev. Canon Fowler, Mr. Jacoby, the Honble. Walter 

 Rothschild, Mr. Merrifield, and Mr. Champion took part in the 

 discussion which ensued. Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens 

 of Cardiophunis eqidseti taken near Braunton, on the north coast 

 of Devon, in May, 1891. Mr. Champion and Mr. Blandford made 

 some remarks on the species. Mr. McLachlan exhibited, for Mr. 

 J. W. Douglas, male specimens of a Coccid [Lecaniwn, prunastri), bred 

 from scales attached to shoots of blackthorn [Prunus spinosa) received 

 from Herr Karel SUI9, of Prague. Mr. Douglas communicated notes 

 on the subject, in which he stated that the species was common on 

 blackthorn in France and Germany, and should be found in Britain. 



