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N. arundineta. I believe the latter has not been recorded for Sussex 

 before. — Edwin P. Sharp ; 1, Bedford Well Road, Eastbourne. 



Spring Neuroptera at Bude.^I received from Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man six insects taken at Bade in Cornwall on May 28th, 1908. They 

 were Isopteryx torrentium, one ; Panorpa germanica, one male ; and 

 Limnophilus centralis, four. — W. J. Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, June 3rf?, 

 1908. — Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition pseudogynes of 

 Formica sanguinea, caused by the presence of the beetle Lomechusa 

 strumosa in the nest, from the New Forest. — Mr. H. J. Turner showed 

 living larvae of ColeopJiora niaritimella on Artemisia, and also a 

 species of Asilidae and its prey. — Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited living 

 specimens of a "leaf-insect" from the Seychelles, bred in England 

 by Mr. St. Quentin, probably Pulchripliy Ilium crurifolium, Serville ; 

 and LampyridaB of considerable interest collected by Mr. E. E. Green 

 in Ceylon, including both sexes of the genera Lamprigera and 

 Dioptoma, the larviform females of which had hitherto been unknown. 

 He called attention to the existence in China, Ceylon, and the Malay 

 Peninsula of remarkable larviform females greatly resembling in form 

 the females of the American group Phengodini, and being somewhat 

 similarly provided with rows of luminous points. Mr. R. Shelford 

 remarked that in several of the Malacoderm Coleoptera from the 

 Malay Archipelago, regarded as larval or apterous forms, the males 

 and females were indistinguishable, and underwent practically no 

 metamorphosis.— Mr. G. C. Champion, specimens of Dromius angustus, 

 Brulle, and Cryptophagus lovendali, Ganglb., recently recorded by 

 him from Woking and the New Forest respectively ; also two species 

 of the Staphylinid genus Leptotyphhts and one of the Curculionid genus 

 Alaocyba, minute blind South European insects, much smaller than 

 any known British representatives of the groups in question. — Col. C. 

 Swinhoe, several boxes of butterflies taken by him during the present 

 year (1908) in the Canary Islands, chiefly from Grand Canary and 

 Teneriffe. He drew attention to the fact that with the exception of 

 Lampides ivebbianus, all the species met with suggest a foreign 

 origin. — Mr. J. E. Collin communicated " Notes on the Value of the 

 Genitalia of Insects as Guides in Phylogeny," by Mr. W. Wesch6, 

 F.R.M.S.— Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., communicated a paper "On 

 certain Nycteribiidse, with Descriptions of Two New Species from 

 Formosa," by Mr. Hugh Scott, B.A. (Cantab.). — Dr. J. L. Hancock, 

 M.D., communicated a paper on " Further Studies of the Tetriginse 

 (Orthoptera) in the Oxford University Museum." — Mr. J. C. Moulton 

 read a paper on " Mimicry in Tropical American Butterflies." — Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., read a paper on " Heredity in Papilio 

 dardanus frorn Natal, bred by Mr. G. F. Leigh, F.E.S., of Durban," 

 and exhibited, in illustration, a large series of the forms of P. dar- 



