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torius, Fab., B. snlcator, Grav., B. gracilis, Grav., B. tricinctus, Gr., 

 B. dimidiatus, Schr., B. tarsatorius, Panz., Alomyia debellator, Fab., 

 typical form and var. nigra (male), Lissonota hellator, Gr., L. sulfu- 

 rifera, Gr., L. cylindrator, VilL, in September, Glyj^ta lugubrina, 

 Hlg., and the ubiquitous 0])liion luteus, Linn., resorting to the 

 street lamps when lighted. I must also mention the capture on 

 Wimbledon Common of a single female of Scolobates auriculatns, Fab., 

 during August last. I am indebted to Mr. Claude Morley, F.Z.S., 

 for kindly identifying the above. — Eupeet Stenton ; Heme Hill, 

 December 9th, 1909. 



PcECiLOCAMPA POPULi, ab. — Ou Nov. 29th last, whilst working 

 for moths under a very powerful electric arc lamp outside my office 

 in the New Explosive Works here, I was surprised to see what I at 

 first took to be a late Pistacina, but much to my surprise I found it 

 to be a curious aberration of P. populi. It was equally as active on 

 the wing as two or three normal specimens which were flying around, 

 although it had the tip of the right fore wing slightly crumpled (this 

 I drew out in the setting). The specimen is of a golden brown colour 

 throughout, except the antennae, which are of the usual colour. It 

 shows traces of the pale oblique transverse bars of the fore wings, 

 but the pale colour is absent and replaced by the colour as above. 

 During the past three years I have had some hundreds of these 

 moths through my hands, the night men sometimes having as many 

 as four dozen for me in the morning, the result of one night's catch- 

 ing, but never before have I observed one worth recording even as a 

 shght variety. — Herbeet Wm. Baker; 73, Limetree Place, Stow- 

 market, Suffolk, November 14th, 1909. 



PcECiLOCAMPA POPULI AT Chestee. — I took a fine male specimen 

 off the globe of a Chester electric lamp, where it was resting, at half 

 past eight on the evening of November 19th. The capture is interest- 

 ing, as the November of this year was exceptionally cold. — J. Aekle; 

 Chester. 



Aporophyla australis, Bdo. : a Correction. — I regret to find 

 that, by an oversight, I incorrectly recorded in ' The Entomologist,' 

 vol. xxxviii. p. 93, the capture of a specimen of this insect in 

 Cornwall. — W. A. Rollason ; " Lamorna," Truro, Cornwall, Decem- 

 ber 13th, 1909. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November 

 Srd, 1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair. 

 — Mr. C. Turner Clark, F.Z.S., of 90, The Mall, Newport, Isle 

 of Wight ; Mr. Pveginald Leigh Leigh-Clare, c/o Messrs. Allen and 

 Gledhill, Singapore ; Mr. Thomas Dobson, of Park Avenue, The 

 Park, Sharpies, Bolton ; Mr. Frank James Evans, of the Botani- 

 cal Department, Trinidad, British West Indies; Dr. T. P. Lucas, 

 Wakefield's Buildings, Adelaide Street, Brisbane, AustraHa ; and Dr. 

 Gilbert WiUiam Nicholson, M.A., M.D., of the Cancer Hospital, 



