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June, 1907.— Professor E. B. Poulton, P.R.S., for Mr. E. B. Green, a 

 preparation for the microscope of the tongue of Ochromyia jejuna. — 

 Mr. E. R. Bankes sent, for exhibition, four specimens of Hejnalus 

 humuli, L., more or less covered by a sprouting fungoid growtli, 

 which was said by the editor of the ' Field ' newspaper, in 1880, to be 

 possibly an early stage of a species of Glavaria, and to have attacked 

 the moths after death. Mr. Bankes had only met with eight lepi- 

 dopterous imagines thus affected, all of which appeared to be referable 

 to H. humuli. (2) Many dead larvse of Hejnalus lupulinus, L., 

 infested with the fungus Cordicejn entomorhiza, and received from 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, in whose flower-garden at Bognor they had 

 been found. The larvae of this species prove destructive there, 

 feeding on the roots of Helleborus, Iris, Pceonia, but the infested 

 larvae were only obtained from clumps of PcBonia ojjicinalis. The 

 larvae were of two classes, some showing anteriorly much fibrous net- 

 like mycelium growth, accompanied by a drumstick-like process often 

 more than half the length of the larva ; others showing no fungoid 

 growth externally, and these work completely out of the soil and lie 

 about on the surface. — Mr. J. E. Collin communicated " The Sys- 

 tematic Affinities of the Phoridae and of several Brachycerous 

 Famihes in the Diptera," by Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S.— Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper on " Stenoptilia grandis, n. sp." 

 — H. Rowland-Brown, Ho7i. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— Marc/i IWi, 1908.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited the Tortrices, Hedya aceriana, 

 H. ocellana, GrapJiolitha minutana, and Sevmsia ivoeberiana, as 

 common Metropolitan species, taken by him from fences on his way 

 to and from the station. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, four specimens of 

 Sticliophtlialma howqua, a large species of Morphinae from Southern 

 China, and specimens of the West African Precis artaxia. — Mr. Hugh 

 Main, females of several species obtainable at the present time, with 

 their ova, viz., Hybernia progemmaria, Anisopteryx cescularia, and 

 Phigalia pedaria. — ^Mr. Andrews, the Diptera, Pipiza lugubris, a 

 scarce Syrphid, and four examples of Garicia ti'grina with its prey. — 

 Mr. Joy, a collection of butterflies made by him near Calcutta during 

 the last two seasons, and read notes. — Mr. Stanley Edwards, two 

 species of scorpion, Heterometrus sivamvierdami, from India, and 

 Tityus insignis, from the West Indies. 



March 26^/i.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. 

 Browne exhibited a large store-box of British Lepidoptera which he 

 was presenting to the Society. — Mr. Tonge, some Lepidoptera 

 recently received from Australia, including Pyravieis kersha^vii, and 

 also a living specimen of Xylocampa areola (lithorhiza) taken that 

 day. — Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Scoparia truncicolella, taken at 

 Oxshott on pine-trunks. — Dr. Chapman, a living, nearly full-fed 

 larva of Aricia agestis (astrarche), which had fed up indoors. Dr. 

 Hodgson, sketches of the resting attitude of Adopaa jiava [thaumas), 

 and read notes.— Mr. Turner, some two dozen species of butterflies 

 characteristic of Sierra Leone and West Africa, including several 

 species of Euphaadra, Aterica, and Acraa, Hypolivmas egesta, Amauris 



