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kindly verified a few of my captures about wliich I was not reason- 

 ably certain. — G. W. Mason ; Barton-on-Humber. 



Scarcity of Wasps in the New Forest. — During the past 

 summer and autumn wasps have been more than scarce ; in fact, I 

 have seen only two — the one flew into the house during the latter 

 part of September, and the other I found in my sweeping net about 

 the same date. This seems all the more curious as in the spring the 

 queens were exceptionally common. Members of the local horti- 

 cultural society are congratulating themselves on having exterminated 

 wasps, as prizes are given each year to those persons who kill the 

 largest number of queens; the number sent in this season being 

 over three thousand. Although this slaughter may account for the 

 scarcity in a measure, it is not a satisfactory explanation, as I hear 

 reports of a similar dearth of wasps from other parts of the New 

 Forest, where insect-hunting horticultural societies do not exist. — 

 G. T. Lyle ; Brockenhurst, October 22nd, 1910. 



Scarcity op Wasps in the Chichester District. — There has 

 been a great scarcity of wasps here, and in the neighbourhood, this 

 year. My gardener tells me that he has not seen a single nest. In 

 contrast with the paucity of wasps has been the extraordinary 

 number of flies {Musca domestica), which have been a cause of 

 considerable annoyance in many ways. — Joseph Anderson; Aire 

 Villa, Chichester, October 26th, 1910. 



Occurrence of Nyctibora sericea, Burm., a West-Indian 

 Cockroach, in the Isle of Wight. — A fine specimen of this 

 cockroach has been recently presented to the British Museum by 

 J. Taylor, Esq., of Sandown, Isle of Wight. It was found in that 

 town among bananas imported from Jamaica about mid-summer, 

 1906. I have not been able to find any previous record of this 

 species in Britain, no mention being made of it in Barr's ' British 

 Orthoptera.' — G. Meade-Waldo. 



Cyaniris argiolus in October — I have a specimen of C. argiolus 

 taken on October 29th, 1899, in my kitchen garden at Greenhithe. 

 It is a female, absolutely perfect ; in fact, it had only just dried its 

 wings on some ivy in the hedge.— A. B. Farn ; Breinton Lodge, 

 near Hereford, November 3rd, 1910. 



[Mr. Dennis (Proc. S. Lond. Ent. and Nat. Hist. Soc. 1902, p. 106) 

 states that on October 9th of that year he found all stages of C. argiolus 

 among ivy at Earl's Colne, Essex. — Ed.] 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 19th, 

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

 — Dr. A. Feynes, M.D., of 61, East Colorado Street, Paradena, 

 California, U.S.A. ; Mr. Thomas Henry Geary, of Enderby, Leicester- 

 shire ; and Mr. Edward Barton White, M.E.C.S., L.K.C.P., of the 

 City Mental Hospital, Cardiff, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 



