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locality. Some common species are only occasional visitors to 

 light, c. (J. I have taken solitary specimens of Amathes lota and 

 A. viacilenta, Eupsilia satellitia, kc. There is hardly any Geometer 

 that will not turn up occasionally, whereas the Noctuaa are very 

 pronounced in their likes and dislikes. Luperina testacea swarms at 

 the end of August, as does Amathes lychnidis at the end of September, 

 and Diloba ccBruleocephala at the end of October ; Pcecilocampa 

 populi was very common in November, 1913. 



There are many species I have not made a note of because, like 

 the poor, they are always with us, such as Xanthorhoe flnctuata and 

 X. sociata, X. montanata and Bumia luteolata ; X. fiuctuata first 

 appeared on April 4th. Also some I omitted to note at the time, 

 e. g. one Eustroma silaceata, too worn to take. There are also 

 curious omissions on the part of Nature. It is nothing less than 

 providential that Camptogramma bilineata is blind to artificial light, 

 otherwise the lamps would have been obscured. 



Since writing the above I may add: — 



November 5th. — Hybernia aurantiaria, and first appearance of 

 P. populi ; also a wasted specimen of E. apiciaria. I took this first 

 on July 25th. I doubt if it is a second brood specimen, as some ova 

 I obtained from an early example have not hatched even in the 

 house. — Ernest A. C. Stowell ; Laleham, Bexhill-on-Sea. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November 

 l'6th, 1914.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Messrs. Harry George Champion, B.A., c/o U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Entomological Bureau, Washington, 

 U.S.A; J. J. Lister, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Merton 

 House, Grantchester ; and Rev. James Waterston, B.D., B.Sc, 

 22, Blandford Road, Bedford Park, W., were elected Eellows of 

 the Society. — The President announced that the Royal Society 

 had awarded the Darwin Medal to Prof. E. B. Poulton, a former 

 President of the Entomological Society. — Before announcing the 

 nominations of the Council for the next year's officers and council, 

 the Secretary said that the Council desired to put on record their 

 great regret that Dr. Chapman had again declined to be nominated 

 for the Presidency. The council felt that his continued absence 

 from the Presidential chair would be a lasting stigma on the Society, 

 unless it were somehow put on record that it was by his own desire 

 that he did not occupy it. The nominations of the council were as 

 follows :— President, the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, M.A., F.L.S., 

 E.Z.S. ; Treasurer, A. H. Jones; Secretaries: Comm. J. J. Walker, 

 M.A., R.N., F.L.S. ; the Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. ; 

 Librarian, G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Other Members of 

 Council : G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; E. A. Butler, B.A., 

 B.Sc. ; E. A. Cockayne, M.D. ; J. E. Collin, F.Z.S. ; H. Eltringham, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S. ; C. J. Gahan, M.A. ; E. Ernest Green ; G. B. 

 Longstaff, M.A., M.D. ; G. Meade- Waldo, M.A. ; G. W. Nicholson, 

 M.A., M.D. ; H. Rowland-Brown, M.A. ; A. E. Tonge.— Mr. E. E. 



