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ABUNDANCE oF LARV% or LycHNA BELLARGUS.—While staying 
in the neighbourhood of Ranmore during the latter part of April and 
the beginning of May I spent some time in searching for the larvie 
of Lycena bellargus. Almost every day, and especially when the sun 
was shining directly on the ground, I found them hurrying across 
the road in considerable numbers, and when the wind was at all high, 
as it frequently was, they were blown along and covered with grit and 
dust. They were in their last instar, but not quite full fed. I 
searched carefully among the food plant (Hippocrepis comosa) and 
found a few low down among the stems and roots in the loose soil, 
but I saw no trace of ants anywherenear. ThoseI took began to pupate 
on May 5th, and the last one turned on May 17th.—F. A. OLDAKER, 
M.A., F.E.S.; The Red House, Haslemere, May 19th, 1916. 
SOCIETIES. 
TuE Sourn Lonpon EnromonoaicaL AND NaruraL History 
Socrery.—March 23rd, 1916.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F'.H.5., President, 
in the chair.—Mr. E. A. Syms, of Wanstead, was elected a member. 
—The Rev. F. M. B. Carr exhibited a large number of species of 
Lepidoptera taken at Tolima, some 6000 ft. high, in the Colombian 
Andes, including species of Morpho, Papilio, Catagramma, Mechanitis, 
Danaus, Peridroma, Colenis, Dismorphia, Heliconius, Hymenitis, 
Megaleura, Dynamine, etc. Mr. Carr also showed aberrations from 
_N. Staffordshire, including dwarf Huchloé cardamines, dark forms of 
Hydriomena impluviata, a series of pale and dark forms of Tephrosza 
crepuscularia with one example having three dark wings and one pale 
wing, and a series of Adscita geryon.—Mr. Leeds, Acronicta leporina, 
type and var. bradyporina, a black-banded form of Agriopis aprilina, 
an extreme dark form of Xylophasia monoglypha, Dicyclaoo from 
Hunts. including ab. renago, ete.—Mr. Stallman, a living specimen 
of the beetle Rhagiwm bifasciatum with the elytra devoid of dark 
pigment and unicolorous pale. It was not an immature specimen.— 
Mr. Edwards, several species of the genus Papilio from S. America. 
—Mr. Curwen, a box of European Lepidoptera showing extremes 
in size. 
April 13th, 1916.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 
chair.—Mr. Sperring exhibited an interesting and unique aberration 
of Spilosoma mendica, a male of the dark colour with the central 
area of the fore wings of a lighter shade with scattered and definite 
spotting on it as in the female-——Mr. Edwards, Papilio telearchus 
with its mimic Huplaa midamus, P. rhetenor with its mimic the 
moth Hpicopeia polydora, and other Papilios—Mr. Newman, a living 
Pyrameis atalanta bred in September, 1915, and kept in a warm 
room through the winter. It had been fed at intervals, and seemed 
none the worse for hibernation.—Mr. Frohawk, a twig gathered at 
Addington upon which were the remaining portions of a chrysalis 
of Colias edusa.—A discussion took place as to the present season. 
The following species had been seen recently: Sesza stellatarwm, 
