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On Heracleum. — Melanotes rujipes. Two under bark at Venn. — Lam- 

 Pl/rus noctiluca. Very common. — Niptus hololeucus. Numerous in old 

 cupboards. — Cleonus sulcirostris (H. H. Hamliug). One at Santon. — 

 Clonus blattaricB, Strophosomtis coryli, and Apoderus coryli, the latter at 

 Acland Woods. — Apion miniatum, Common. — Catnopsis xvaltoni. 

 Common in moss: woods. — Otiorhynchus atroapterus. Santon. — 

 lihagiwn inquisitor. In rotten oak, Clovelly. — Pachyta 8-mciculata. 

 Eiver Yeo {vide 'Entomologist,' November, 1906, p. 259). — Crypto- 

 cephalus Uncola (H, H. Hamling). — Haltica verbasci. Very common on 

 the mullein. — Cassida splendidnla. River Yeo, by beating ; one speci- 

 men. — Chrysomela banksii. Common, especially in South Devon, near 

 Totnes, at Harberton. — G. hyperici. Common ; and C. yoettinyensis, at 

 Harberton and Venn, Barnstaple ; two only. — Phytodecta olivacea var. 

 litura. On broom. River Yeo. — Galeruca calmariensis, G. lineola, 

 Adimonia caprece. — Calomicrus circiunfusiis. On gorse, Codden Hill. — 

 Typhcea fumata. Under bark. — Helops pallidus. One at Braunton 

 Burrows. — H. strialus. Very common under bark. — Cistela sulphurea. 

 Common on low plants, Braunton. — C. niurina. On coast. — Phaleria 

 cadaverina. Common under stones and seaweed on the shore. — 

 Opatrum sabidosum. Common, Braunton Burrows ; also Heliopathes 

 yibbus. On sandhills, crawling over loose sand. — Melandrya camboides, 

 On stinging-nettles ; one specimen at Venn. — Bruce F. Cummings ; 

 14, Cross Street, Barnstaple. 



Larv^ in 1907. — In view of the remarks made by Messrs. Newman 

 and Huggins concerning the scarcity of Arctia caia larvfe this season, 

 I should like to give my experience of the Norfolk Broad district. In 

 spite of heavy rains I collected over one hundred in six days, in 

 marshes over which I had hunted the two previous years, and found 

 only a dozen or so. This was in the first week of June each year. 

 There was a great increase in the number of Odonestis potatoria too, 

 and I should be very glad of an explanation of this really remarkable 

 abundance. Is it due to the fact that in this swampy district last 

 summer's extreme drought was favourable to autumn-feeding larvae ? 

 G. Brooks; Ivyside, North Finchley, June 16th, 1907. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, J ime 5th, 1907. — 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, President, in the chair. — Mr. C. N. Hughes, of 

 Knightstone, Cobham ; Mr. Albert Ernest McClure Kelly, Assistant 

 Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, Natal; and Mr. M. G. 

 Muklie, of Hyderabad, Sind, India, and Cambridge University, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. — The decease was announced of Dr. 

 Frederic Moore, D.Sc, A.L.S., F.Z.S., the "father" of Indian 

 eutomology, and one of the oldest Fellows of the Society ; and of 

 Mr. C. J. VVatkins. — The President read a communication from the 

 Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., the Society's delegate to the celebrations in 

 honour of the Linnjean bicentenary celebrations at Upsala and Stock- 

 holm, announcing the delivery of the addresses and the hospitality 

 with which he had been received at both places. It was resolved to 



