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have bred it from a pairing of the ‘“ Dover form.’”’—Gro. T. Porritt ; 
Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield, February 10th, 1909. 
THERONIA ATALANTH, Poda, as BririsH. —I have seen a fine 
female of this species in the British Museum, which was captured 
“near Ramsgate, September, 1891,” but the identity of the captor is 
doubtful (cf. my ‘Ichneumons of Britain,’ iii. 51). This distinct | 
and handsome species, which preys mainly upon Rhopalocera, may 
now be considered as certainly indigenous to our fauna.—CLAUDE 
Mortey. 
Tue EnromonocicaL Crus.—Since the last report (Entom. xli. 
229) meetings of this Club were held at 58, Kensington Mansions, 
South Kensington, on December 8th, 1908, and in the Council Cham- 
ber of the Holborn Restaurant on January 19th, 1909. 
On the date first mentioned Mr. Horace St. John K. Donisthorpe 
was in the chair, and the other members present were Messrs. R. 
Adkin, H. Rowland-Brown, and G. H. Verrall; the additional guests 
numbered fourteen. At this meeting Mr. Rowland-Brown proposed 
that Mr. A. H. Jones be elected an Honorary Member of the Club ; 
this having been seconded by Mr. Donisthorpe was carried. 
At the Holborn meeting, which is recognized as the ‘‘ Annual” of 
the Club, Mr. G. H. Verrall occupied the chair, as it has been his 
wont to do at about the same date for the past twenty-two years. 
Other members present were Messrs. R. Adkin, H. St. John K. Donis- 
thorpe, and T. W. Hall; and of other entomologists invited as guests 
nearly seventy attended. After supper the chairman, in proposing 
the toast of the “ Entomological Club,’ made some apt remarks on 
the seeming lack of workers and students in British insects other than 
Lepidoptera. Later on, in replying to the toast of “Our Host,” 
which was proposed by Dr. Dixey and acclaimed with musical 
honours by the guests, Mr. Verrall mentioned that biographical 
details of some past members of the Club were still wanted to com- 
plete the set of memoirs in course of preparation. 
(For list of past and present members of the Entomological Club; 
see p. 63).—RicHarp Sours, Hon. Sec. 
CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 
Harty APPEARANCE OF HUPITHECIA PUMILATA.— A specimen of 
this pretty little moth was found to-day at rest on the wall of an up- 
stairs passage in this house, not far from a landing-window, through 
which it must have flown, probably attracted by an adjacent gaslight. 
This is a remarkably early date, but the weather for the past three or 
four weeks has been so abnormally changeable that one is scarcely 
surprised at it. After a week’s hard frost, at the end of December, 
the New Year commenced with a spell of mild weather, which lasted 
until January 19th, when frost set in again, and went on until the end 
of the month, the last three or four days being very severe. Then on 
February 1st it became suddenly very mild, the thermometer for three 
ENTOM.—MarcH 1909 G 
