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(doubtful), G. pa7U2)hilns, C. phlceas, L. icams, bellargus, C. argiolus, 

 P. machaon. I saw others but could not with any approach to 

 certainty identify them. This was near Armentiers, but we have 

 since been moved to quite another part of the line." 



Sphinx convolvuli in Hampshire. — A very large female speci- 

 men of S. convolvuli was brought to me on September 19th which 

 was found by some boys on Milford Common. It died shortly after 

 I received it, and owing to rough handling was quite useless for the 

 cabinet. I opened the body and carefully removed the ova and 

 counted them ; they numbered rather more than eight hundred. All 

 were well formed, though not much larger than those of Hemaris 

 fuciformis, and were of a brilliant emerald green colour. Mr. W. J. 

 Lucas, in his book on ' British Hawk Moths,' p. 69, mentions a 

 convolvuli that was found to contain " no less than two hundred and 

 twenty perfect eggs " — the Milford specimen goes one (or rather 

 six hundred) better ! — Sydney Whichee ; Sheen Cottage, Liss, 

 Hants. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN LINCOLNSHIRE. — On September 14th last 

 a specimen of A. atropos came to light in a kitchen in this town. 

 This is the first record of the imago having occurred in this dis- 

 trict, though larvae and pupae have occasionally been found. — F. P. H. 

 BiRTWHiSTLE ; Barton-on-Humber. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, October 6t]i, 

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

 sident, in the chair. — Messrs. Arthur Gibson, Entomological Branch, 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, and Harold Beck Williams, 

 82, Filey Avenue, Stoke Newington, N., were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Capt. Purefoy exhibited young larvae of Lycana arion, 

 with an accompanying ant. — Dr. Chapman, drawings of various 

 Lycnenid larvae with the Epidiascope. — The Hon. N. G. Eothschild, 

 four specimens of Chrysoplianus dispar, taken this year in Holland, 

 apparently identical with the extinct British race. — Dr. Chapman, a 

 specimen of a Dipteron, a species of Ne^notehis (Fam. Stratiomyidic), 

 which was quite common where the cases of Luffia fcrchaulella 

 occurred, the cases of Luffia being imitated by a spider (Cyclosa 

 conica). This Dipteron at rest also closely imitated the Luffia causes. 

 — Mr. G. Meade- Waldo, a new aberration of Euxoa corticea, Hb., 

 taken in his light-trap at Hever, Kent, in July ; the specimen, 

 known as ab. obsoleta, shows only the faintest trace of the orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a very long and varied 

 series of Aplecta nebulosa and its varieties ab. robsoni and tJwmpsoni 

 and intermediate forms from a male and female both of the robsoni 

 form, the percentages being : robsoni (including intermediates) 50 per 

 cent. ; typical specimens 26 per cent. ; tliompsoni 21 per cent. Also 

 a series of Boarmia rep)andata var. conversaria, from a pairing 

 obtained between a typical light Hunts female crossed with a con- 



