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sional Argijnnis euphrosync. Cyclopides j^aliZi^i'On was also seen in 

 such numbers as to promise a plentiful season for this loveliest and 

 rarest of our " skippers," while the last capture of a very short clay's 

 work — due to a disappointing change of weather — was a perfectly 

 fresh male Nemeobius lucina. 



Two days previously, in Oxhey Wood (Herts.), Hespcriavialvce. was 

 as common as ever I have known it, though I fear all collecting on 

 this once "happy hunting-ground" is doomed, as the builders are at 

 work, and Civilization in the form of a three-foot sewer has invaded 

 this last surviving part of the primitive woodland of our Middlesex 

 north border ! Lastly, it is satisfactory to find that Celastrina 

 argiolus still holds its own, and despite the drenching of ivy and 

 holly-buds last year made a welcome reappearance in our garden 

 on May 22nd; the females a couple of days later. 



It is, perhaps, worth recording also (though scarcely a "field" 

 report !) how extremely common were Pieris hrassica and P. rapcB in 

 the streets of London on the day of the King's funeral, May 20th ; 

 from quite an early hour these butterflies crossing and recrossing un- 

 molested above the thousands of close-packed humanity in Piccadilly, 

 where I happened to be stationed. — H. Eowland-Bkown ; Harrow- 

 Weald, June 6th, 1910. 



Amphidasys betularia ab. doubledayaeia in Essex. — I have 

 to-day, May 21st, taken here a fine female specimen of A. douhleday- 

 aria. This is perhaps a record for Essex, but some of your readers 

 will know better than I. — (Rev.) W. Claxton ; Navestock Vicarage, 

 Romford. 



Lepidoptera at West Wickham. — It may be of some interest 

 to record that on June 6th I took a specimen of P. piniperda at 

 sugar at West Wickham. This seems a very late date for this 

 species, but in spite of that it was in very fair condition. The 

 same evening I also took by " lamping " N. dodonea, C. fliictiiosa, 

 L. dictceoides, T. batis, B. consortaria, and M. albiciUata. I have 

 had some opportunity of working this once famous locality during 

 the past few years, and amongst the better captures the following 

 may be mentioned: — H. bicolorana, A. flavicornis, A. Jcporina, 

 0. suspecta (sugar), N. neglecta, N. stigmatica, B. piarthenias, N. hispi- 

 daria (larvtB), C. glabraria (one larva), E. dolobraria, P. bajularia, 

 T. luridata, and M. notata. But my experience is that you have to 

 work pretty hard for what you get. Sugar, for the most part, has 

 been a dismal failure, and more often than not the trees sugared have 

 failed to produce a dozen insects altogether. — (Rev.) E. Manneeing ; 

 74, Bolsover Street, W., June 9th, 1910. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May itJi, 

 1910.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., President, in the chair.— 

 The decease was announced of Mr. G. S. Saunders, F.L.S., a Fellow 

 of tlie Society. — Mr. J. J. Ward brought for exhibition an example of 



