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in England. Perhaps you would let me hear if other specimens 

 have heen taken this spring. Instead of being a rich cream colour 

 as with Continental specimens I have taken, the edging of 

 tlie wings was a greyish white. This is usual with the English 

 specimens, I believe?— W. H. Smith; The Mill, Harden, Kent, 

 Whit-Monday, 1915. 



Butterflies of the Stroud District. — With regard to Mr. 

 Butler's observation on the butterflies of the Taunton district in the 

 May ' Entomologist ' (p. 123) I may say the record of the neighbourhood 

 of Stroud within quite as restricted an area is superior, in fact amounts 

 to forty-five species, viz. the whole list, including V. antiojKi, given 

 by him minus T. hetula and L. agon, but plus G. hyale, G. c-alhum, 

 L. avion and H. comma. — ^. B. Davis; 3, Eosebank Villas, Church- 

 field Eoad, Stroud, Glos. 



Leucophasia sinapis. — While collecting in Herefordshire at 

 Whitsuntide, Mr. S. G. C. Eussell and I each took a specimen of 

 L. sinajns w^ith light brown, instead of black, tips to fore wings. 

 Is not this form very unusual? — F. Pennington ; Eeform Club, S.W., 

 June 9th, 1915. 



Semiothisa liturata (ab. nigrofulvata) in Westmorland. — 

 I have to record the capture of a specimen of the above in a pine- 

 wood near Kendal on June 20th, 1915. — Frank Little wood ; 

 22, Highgate, Kendal. 



Double Cocoons. — On p. 44 of the ' Entomologist ' for February, 

 1915, Mr. Hay ward invited information regarding instances in which 

 two larvae had formed a single cocoon in common. As I had an 

 unusually large cocoon of Dasychira imdihunda remaining out of a 

 large number, and as emergence was overdue, I cut it open to-day 

 and discovered an empty pupa case and a dead female moth and a 

 living pupa of another female within the cocoon, which had no 

 partition. — H. M. Parish ; Cross Oak Eoad, Berkhamsted, Herts., 

 May 5th, 1915. 



Drepana cultraria. — I first noticed this moth flying about, high 

 up, on the sunny border of a beech wood near Tring Station on 

 May 8th, and captured three specimens which descended. On the 

 succeeding days I found this moth abundant in a beech wood here, 

 flying about close to the ground, rarely out of reach, at midday, when 

 there was sunshine, until the cold, wet weather set in on the 13th. 

 Since then I have only seen three. Among many captured, not one 

 was of the female sex. I did not see this species at all last year. — 

 H. M. Parish, May 25th, 1915. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, February 3rd, 

 1915.— The Hon. N. Charles Eothschild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Pre- 

 sident, in the chair. — Mr. Adam Charles Smith, of Horton, Morning- 

 ton Eoad, Woodford Green, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — 



