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miniosa was extremely abundant in the Northants woods this year, 
and I took some very unusual varieties of J. munda. Apocheima 
hispidaria taken near Bedford Purlieux on March 18th seems a new 
locality. I believe it is not previously recorded in the district.— 
C. Mettows; Brasenose College, Oxford. 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN May.—On the evening of the 10th inst. 
a working-man brought me one of these moths, which had just 
settled on his trousers below the knee, and had then run up his leg 
as he was walking in the street. When he caught it in his hand he 
said ‘it squeaked just like a mouse,” and he was rather afraid of it. 
However, he took it home and placed it under a tumbler, and then 
brought it to me. It was a male, and rather a fine dark one, and 
would have been quite perfect but for a piece chipped out of one of 
its hind wings, doubtless by its captor. I kept it in a breeding-cage 
all night, and released it the next evening as soon as it began to move 
about, and it looked like a small bird as it flew off in the gloom. 
The species is not often seen at this time of the year in Britain.-— 
GervasE F. MatHew; Dovercourt, May 12th, 1909. 
SOCIETIES. 
Entomouoaican Society or Lonpon.— Wednesday, March 17th, 
1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.—Capt. 
Ki. Bagnell-Purefoy, The Cottage, East Farleigh, Maidstone; Mr. 
Stanley A. Blenkarn, 44, Romola Road, Tulse Hill, $8.E.; Mr. Leonard 
Box, the Floral Nurseries, Hailsham, Sussex, and 28, St. James’s 
Street, Bedford Row, W.C.; Mr. Henry Britten, Prospect House, 
Salkeld Dykes, Penrith; the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, of Mucking 
Vicarage, Stanford-le-Hope; and Mr. W. A. Rollason, ‘‘ Lamorna,” 
Truro, were elected Fellows of the Society.— M. A. Janet, member 
of the Entomological Society of France, and M. Severin, member 
of the Entomological Society of Belgium, were present as visitors. 
—Mr. H. Rowland-Brown exhibited two extreme forms of Chryso- 
phanus phieas from Norwegian Finmarken and the Mediterranean 
region, drawing attention to the apparent identity of the form from 
Arctic Europe—hypophl@as—with the species described as amert- 
canus from North America. He also showed series of Plebevus argyro- 
gnomon, Brgstr. taken by him at Alten and Abisko, Swedish Lap- 
Jand; P. argus var. corsica from Corsica; and P. argus, approaching 
var. bella, H. 8., from Digne, Basses-Alpes.— Mr. H. Hamilton 
Druce also brought for exhibition examples of Plebewus argus, L., 
taken by him in various localities in Russia.—Mr. G. Meade-Waldo 
exhibited a gynandromorphous example of Huchloé cardamines, bred 
from a larva found at Hever, Kent.—Mr. H. M. Edelsten brought for 
exhibition stereoscopic photographs of the anal segments of Cwnobia 
rufa, female, showing the spines which are driven into the dead stems 
of Juncus lamprocarpus during oviposition. — Mr. W. Schmassman 
showed, on behalf of Mr. H. Welte, a curiously marked female of 
Chrysophanus hippothoé from Goeschenen, Switzerland. The black 
spots, forming the marginal row on the under side of the two 
ENTOM.—JUNE, 1909. 0 
