938 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
referred to and described in Stainton’s ‘ Tineina of Southern Europe,’ 
pp. 224-229. 
August 24th—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 
—Mr. Main (1) Larva, pupa, and imago of the water-beetle Pelobius 
tardus ; (2) the curious result of an attack of fungus on a Syrphid 
fly; (3) the ova of the Neuropteron Hemerobius concinnus.—Mr. 
Curwen, a bred series of Cleora lichenaria and Cleora jubata (glab- 
raria) from the New Forest. The larve of the latter species fed on 
a lichen, Cladonia. He also showed an example of Xanthorhoé 
fluctuata, asymmetrical in both shape and markings.—Mr. Turner, 
details of the life-histories of some micro-lepidoptera: (1) Mines of 
Lithocolletis lantanella in Lauristinus ; (2) pyramidal cones in oak 
leaves of larve of Gracilaria alchimiella (swederella); (3) galleries 
of larvee of Gelechia pinguinella (turpella) on poplar leaves; (4) mines 
of’ Lzthocolletis lewcographella in leaves of Crategus pyracantha ; 
(5) the beautiful network cocoons of Hpiblemia strictellus; and 
(6) larval cases of a Coleophorid, said to be Coleophora salinella, 
from the seeds of Chenopodium maritimum. He also exhibited 
coloured figures of a dozen striking aberrations of Dryas paphia.— 
Mr. H. Moore, Agriades coridon, ab. semisyngrapha, and ab. roy- 
stonensis, with an asymmetrical male, from Royston.—Mr. Frohawk, 
a unique form of Arctia caja, with the fore wings uniformly chocolate 
and hind wings almost wholly black, with several others less striking, 
bred from larve taken in the Scilly Isles—Mr. Wolley Dod, a 
Saturnia pavonia female, in which the antenne were considerably 
pectinated—Mr. Bunnett, a glow-worm, Lampyris noctiluca, with 
the tibia of the hind leg on the right side bifurcate-—Mr. Carr, a 
living Platyptilia gonodactyla taken in the City.—Several specimens 
of Amorpha populi had been taken by members, and it was suggested 
that they belonged to a second brood.—Hy. J. Turner. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
In the Hands of the Senoussr. C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., London. 
1916. 
Amone the many thrilling books of the war there is no more 
human document than the little volume compiled by his wife from 
the diary of Captain Gwatkin-Williams, R.N. It is the story of nine- 
teen weeks spent as a prisoner in the Lybian desert, and records with 
convincing simplicity the terrible experiences of the naval officer in 
command of H.M.S. “Tara,” formerly the §.S. “‘ Hibernia,” plying 
between Dublin and Holyhead. This is no place to review at length 
a book which gives a faithful picture of the miseries suffered by the 
gallant officers and crew of the “Tara” among the hostile Arabs, 
finally ended with the spirited rescue of the survivors by Major the 
Duke of Westminster and his flotilla of motor cars. But it is pleasant 
to note that Captain Gwatkin-Williams found not a little comfort in 
observing the butterflies of this parched and treeless land, though he 
endured hideous discomfort from insect vermin. On the 9th and 10th 
