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worth a collector's serious attention. I remember being crazy to 

 take Dasycavqm rubigznea at sallows, and tramping miles for the 

 purpose. Well, I got it; or I might say, them, for I have taken 

 a good many; but one evening I shook a sallow bush in a hedge 

 close to my front door and right in the town, and down came a 

 beautiful rubigineg. I — C. M. Mayor ; Bank House, Dawlish, South 

 Devon. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— Ifrt?/ 23/rZ.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in 

 tlie chair. — Mr. Main exhibited the pupa of Ocypus olens (Col.) in 

 the pupal chamber and pointed out the strong spines which prevented 

 direct contact witli the earthern sides. He also showed the larva of 

 TivmrcJia tenehricosa ready for pupation on its back in the cell. — Mr. 

 Ashdown, Albin's 'Natural History of English Insects,' 1720, one of 

 the first coloured English entomological works. — Mr. Dennis, stereo- 

 scopic slides of Tortrix cristana, etc. — Mr. Main, Anopheles hifurcatus 

 and otlier mosquitoes.^Mr. Adkin asked for support for the " Wicken 

 Fen Fund," indicating the object of the Fund and what had been 

 done so far. The remainder of the evening was spent in an exhibit 

 and discussion of Mimas tilice, introduced by Mr. Sperring. — Messrs. 

 Leeds, E. Adkin, and Sperring exhibited their series of M. tilice. — 

 Mr. Leeds, a wild captured ab. suffusa and a number of ab. maculata. 

 Mr. R. Adkin, series of local races, a long graduated series of modi- 

 fications of the central transverse bands, and gynandromorphous 

 examples. — Mr. Sperring then read his notes dealing with nomen- 

 clature (sliortly). Ova, Larva, Pupa, Time of Emergence, Forcing, 

 Assembling, Pairing and Variation, the last in some detail. A dis- 

 cussion ensued, Messrs. E. Adkin, B. Adkin, S. Edwards, W. West, 

 Dennis, Main, and others taking part. Mituas tilice was noted as 

 being a very common suburban insect in the larval stage, until 

 recently invariably attached to lime trees, feeding well on birch, 

 formerly common in the pupal stage at the foot of oaks in Greenwich 

 Park, recently commonly attached to elms, always small when bred 

 from elm trees, occurring in Hyams Park on alder, etc. — H. J. 

 Turner (Hon. Ed. of Proceedings). 



June ISth, 1918.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in 

 tbe chair.— Prof. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., was elected an 

 Honorary Member. The evening was mainly devoted to an Exhibi- 

 tion of Living Specimens of Natural History. — Mr. Ashdown exhi- 

 bited living larvaj of Anatis ocellata (Col.), and living imagines of 

 lihagium incjuisitor (Col.). — Mr. E. Adkin, winter nests and living 

 larvte of Eicproctis similis {auriflua) and of E. chrysorrhcea, the one 

 solitary in hibernation, the other gregarious ; and also living Scoparia 

 duhitalis and its white form, to show the Deprcssaria-\\ke attitude 

 of the latter. — Mr. H. Main, various early stages of CJtrysomela 

 gnwmiis on tansy, of Timarcha violacconigra on wood-ruff, of 

 Timarcha tenehricosa, of Necrophouts mortuorum (all Col.), of Gastro- 

 phila ecjui (Dip.), of Podisus luridus (Hem.), of Pseicdoterpna pruinata 



