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crouching position from the warren, and I drew EUiott's attention feo 

 so novel and interesting a spectacle, continuing myself half buried 

 in the bunny-hole at which I was at work. Ere long the man 

 approached and asked somewhat brusquely the object of our sub- 

 terranean investigations. At the same moment I became aware of a 

 county policeman alighting from his bicycle in my rear. Here, then, 

 was our quartette — an unfair one surely, for who does not know that 

 a bobby's word is more than that of a mere private individual ! 

 Fortunately Bluebeard was no less than the Brandon constable, who 

 knew we were staying at the " White Hart " there ; and a further 

 reference to a local cousin (Arthur EUiott, Esq., J. P., of Elveden) 

 straightened matters entirely, though the keeper, after his kind, still 

 rejected the evidence of our collecting-tubes, and considered, in a 

 retrogressive undertone, leptophilous coleoptera to be pernicious 

 examples for the local yokel. 



When all the world and love is young your best collection is 

 made. I had a delightful landlady at Lowestoft, and on August 3rd, 

 1904, this good dame (her heart, if not her head, merits the title) 

 cooked three " hard-boiled " eggs. With these upon my person by 

 way of lunch, I sallied forth to the Kessingland sandhills on the 

 Suffolk coast. Upon arrival at these dunes I became utterly absorbed 

 upon the capture of the Culicoid bug, Metacanthus 2)uncticeps, which 

 was quite new to me, and abundant upon Ononis spmosa. So obsessed 

 therewith was I that I rolled from patch to patch of food-plant in the 

 most abandoned manner — till I heard something give : thought I, 

 "The eggs, by George." Most gingerly my fingers sought them in 

 their snug retreat — and found them. Found, too, they had not been 

 hard-boiled ; sincerely I wished they had. How Newbery and his 

 niece did laugh !—Claude Morley. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — The Annual Meeting took 

 place on Wednesday, January 16th, 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.D., 

 D.Sc, President, being in the chair. —Mr. .W. G. Sheldon, one of the 

 Auditors, read the Treasurer's statement of accounts, which was 

 adopted on the motion of Mr. Stanley Edwards, seconded by Mr. 

 Frisby. — The Eev. G. Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, then read the 

 report of the Council, which was adopted on the motion of Mr. O. E. 

 Jauson, seconded by the Rev. F. D. Morice. — No other nominations in 

 addition to those of the Council having been received, the President 

 declared the latter to have been duly elected as officers and members 

 of Council for the ensuing year : President, Dr. J. C. Gahan, M.A., 

 D.Sc. Treasurer, W. G. Sheldon. Secretaries, Comm. James J. 

 Walker, M.A., R.N., F.L.S. ; Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. 

 Librarian, George Charles Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S. Other members 

 of Council, A. W. Bacot; E. C. Bedwell; K. G. Blair; Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. ; W. C. Crawley, B.A. ; H. Willoughby 

 Elhs, F.Z.S.; Dr. H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S.: J. C. F. 

 Fiyer, M.A. ; A. Hugh Jones ; Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A. ; S. A. 



