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condition. Of course these are only the pick of the total captures. — 

 J. Arkle; Chester. 



Late Date for Cyaniris argiolus. — While collecting in ths 

 Abbot's Wood district on Thursday last I netted a female Cyaniri 

 argiolus, which, although a good deal worn, was quite active. On 

 the same date last year I took full-fed larvae from the ivy-buds within 

 a few miles of the same spot. — E. Adkin ; Sept. 19th, 1910. 



Epicnaptera (Gastropacha) ilicifolia in Devonshire. — I had 

 the good fortune, on Sept. 2nd, to take a female E. (G.) ilicifolia at 

 light about 11.15 ; a very late time of the year, I think, for this 

 moth. The weather was thick, misty rain. — W. J. Monk ; Tavistock, 

 Sept. 15th, 1910. 



ToRTRiCEs IN Essex. — I w^as pleased to find Eupcecilia uclana at 

 Bowers Gifi'ord on July 9th last, as it is a species I had not pre- 

 viously met with. Two dark narrow-winged moths, with ocellus 

 obscurely defined, were bred from some beech-mast gathered near 

 Thornden Park ; these seem to answer the description, given by 

 Barrett, of Garpoca'psa ninibana. — F. G. Whittle ; 7, Marine Avenue, 

 Southend. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— July 28th.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Main, the larvae and luminous ova of the glowworm, 

 Lampyris noctiluca. — Mr. Clark, on behalf of Mr. Gadge, a specimen 

 of a species of mite found at Ventnor on a specimen of Melanargia 

 galatea. It was a species of the genus Tremhidium. — Mr. B. H. 

 Smith reported the larvae of Gucullia verhasci found feeding on 

 Budleya variabilis. — Mr. Edwards, a box of exotic Satyrinae, includ- 

 ing Neorina crishna from Java, and several species of the genus 

 Citherias from Central America. — Mr. Sich reported finding a larva 

 of Zcuzera piy^ina {cbscuU) attacking jasmine. 



August 11th. — -The President in the chair. — Mr. Carr exhibited 

 the ova of Acidalia straminata, from Oxshott, on heather. — Mr. Sich, 

 sallow-catkins met with during the past week, and ova of Eupithecia 

 suhumhrata laid on leaves of yarrow. — Mr. Eayward, a specimen of 

 Adopcea flava [linea] in a moribund condition from being attacked by 

 no fewer than twenty-one mites. He also showed the egg-shells of 

 Phorodesma smaragdaria and Geometra vernaria, and made com- 

 parison of the surface structure and the method of oviposition. — Mr. 

 West (Greenwich), specimens of Coleoptera and Hemiptera recently 

 met with by him attacked by mites. — Mr. E. Adkin, a number of 

 " white butterflies " from North America, sent him by Mr. Lachlan 

 Gibb, including a series of the introduced Pieris rapcB, a series 

 of P. oleracea, and three specimens taken near Lost Eiver, Canada, 

 in May last, about which comment and opinion were requested. — Mr. 

 Turner, a short series of Coleophora silenella (?) bred from the heads 

 of wild sweet-william sent him by Dr. Chapman from the South of 

 France. He also exhibited the nest of a species of Polistes wasp. 



