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in Ireland one only is of ttiis colour, but there are three among about 

 a hundred pupae I have resulting from larva? taken wild in this part 

 of Essex. — (Rev.) Gilhert H. Raynor; Hazeleigh Rectory, Maldon, 

 Essex. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 3rd, 

 1917.— Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Dr. George Granville Buckley, M.D., F.S.A., Holly Bank, 

 Manchester Road, Stafford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — 

 The death of Dr. Emil Frey-Gessner was announced. — Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe exhibited the following Coleoptera : (1) Miarus campanidc?, L., 

 taken on the Downs at Findon, Sussex, June 14th, 1917. It occurred 

 in some numbers, but only in a small species of buttercup, of which 

 a specimen was exhibited. (2) Lycoperdina succincta, L., taken at 

 Barton Mills, Suffolk, September 9th, 1917, in fungus. (3) Cassida 

 fastuosa, Schal., taken at Goring Woods, Sussex, July 28th, 1917, on 

 Innla dysenterica. This is its first record on fleabane, and all the 

 specimens were of a bright yellow and black colour when alive, and 

 not as is usual red and black. — The Rev. F. D. Morice exhibited with 

 the epidiascope a set of photographs (mostly taken from living 

 specimens feeding or resting on their usual food-plants) of several 

 sawfiy larvae. — The following paper was read : " Further Notes on 

 Recapitulatorv Attitudes in Lepidoptera," by T. A. Chapman, M.D., 

 F.Z.S. 



Wednesday, October llth, 1917.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, 

 President, in the chair. — Mr. John WiUiams Hockin, Castle Street, 

 Launceston, Cornwall ; Col. Turenne Jermyn, Highcliffe, Weston- 

 super-Mare ; Mr. Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., Balliol 

 College, Oxford ; and the Rev. Prebendary A. P. Wickham, East 

 Brent Vicarage, Highbridge, Somerset, w-ere elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a number of small yellow cocoons 

 which were taken on a fence at Putney on September 15th last, and 

 which had emerged from the body of a white butterfly larva. On 

 October 8th Hymenopterous insects began to emerge from the 

 cocoons and were still doing so ; these belonged to a hyper-parasite, 

 parasitic on the original parasite. — Mr. Dicksee exhibited a probable 

 new sub-species of Morpho rhetenor, now received for the first time 

 from Colombia. — Dr. Chapman exhibited an aberrant specimen of a 

 wasp [Vesjya germanica), and made observations upon it. — Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson exhibited a fine example of Tapinotits seUatus, Fab., taken by 

 him on June 9th last near Horning, Norfolk. Only two British 

 specimens were previously known. He also showed some othei' 

 Coleoptera of interest taken in the same locality. He also exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. L. H. Bonaparte-Wyse, who was present as a visitor, 

 a fine male specimen of Notodonta hicoloria, Shiff., taken by him near 

 Killarney on June 7th last. — Mr. Green exhibited living larvae of a 

 Dermestid beetle, Tiresias serra, found under dead bark of an oak 

 tree in the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. He also read an intei'esting 

 note on the oviposition of the sawfiy Pteromis sertifer. 



