142 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 
Aglais urtice, Celastrina argiolus, Pieris brassice, and Gonepteryx 
rhamm.—Hy. J. TuRNER. 
DerBysHIRE EnromonoaicaL Society.—The Annual Meeting of 
the Society was held on Saturday, March 11th, at Smiths Bank 
Chambers, Market Place, Derby, when the Annual Report and State- 
ment of Accounts were presented and passed. The following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mr. James Douglas; 
Treasurer and Librarian, Dr. Winstan StA. StJohn; Secretary, Mr. 
G. Hanson Sale, Coxbench ; Members of Council, Dr. Claude F. Druitt 
and Messrs. H. C. Hayward, W. H. Sankey, and W. W. Wallis.— 
The Council is at present engaged in dividing the county into districts 
with a view to keeping systematic records and tabulating the distri- 
bution of the various species—Mr. H. C. Hayward contributed the 
following list of Lepidoptera taken at Repton in the decade 1905- 
1915 and not recorded in the list in the Victoria County History. 
RHOPALOCERA: Limenitis sibylla: One specimen taken in 1910 by a 
village lad who knocked it down with his hat. No doubt seems to 
attach to this capture, but the presence of the insect would seem to 
be in some way accidental, possibly a bred specimen released by some 
collector in the neighbourhood. Very careful inquiries were made 
at the time, but the mystery is still unsolved. Sxsupm: Sesza 
cynipiformis: Abundant in 1911, 1912, and again in 1915. Larve 
and pup in stumps of felled oak. Sesia formiciformis : In osier beds 
in 1905, 1909, and 1910, but it is a very shy insect and easily escapes 
observation. Nocrui#: Helotropha leucostigma (fibrosa): One in 
a garden in 1912. Presumably a survival amongst the remnants of 
former fens in the Trent valley. Miana furuncula (bicoloria): One 
at sugar in 1905. I can offer no explanation of the occurrence of an 
isolated specimen of this species. T@niocampa opima: One at sallow 
bloom in 1909. The possibility of transport by train was suggested 
for this specimen, but the occurrence of two more in 1912 in an osier 
bed a mile from the railway establishes the species as a native. 
Hecatera serena: One taken flying over thistle heads by day, 1914. 
Though frequent in the eastern counties this is a scarce species in the 
Midlands. Plusia moneta : Now common in gardens; first observed 
in 1906. GromEeTRIDZ: Boarmia abietaria: One taken amongst 
yew trees in 1911. Apparently indigenous, as there is no possibility 
of the escape of a bred specimen. I believe the known range of the 
species does not extend further north than Gloucestershire and Berk- 
shire. Hphyra (Zonosoma) omicronaria (annulata) : One taken about 
maple in 1915. I can find no record for this for the whole of the 
Midlands.—G. Hanson Sate, Hon. Sec. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
1. Fifteenth Report of the State Entomologist of Minnesota, for 1913 
and 1914. 
Brsipus articles of less importance to Entomologists, there are : 
‘Some Important Tree Insects” (A. G. Ruggles); ‘Some New 
