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day. — Rost. §. Surru, Junr.; The Laurels, Downham Market, 
Norfolk. 
PALIMPSESTIS (CYMATOPHORA) OCTOGESIMA IN Lonpon DisTRICcT. 
—On July 11th, 1907, and again this year, June 13th, I had the 
pleasure of capturing this moth here; both specimens were taken 
at sugar, not on poplar trees.—M. F’. Buss; Coningsburgh, Haling, W. 
CErLASTRINA (CYANIRIS) ARGIOLUS IN MippLEsex.—I am glad to 
say that after an absence of six years C. argiolus has turned up again 
in our garden during the second fortnight of May, flying around the 
flowering holly-trees in some numbers. It appears also to have been 
generally common in this part of Middlesex, and I have seen several 
in the gardens of Woodridings, Pinner, and Eastcote, while just over 
the border, at Eastbury, in Oxhey Woods, it was appearing singly 
among the wild hyacinths on the 22nd. I may add that I have 
never seen an example of the autumn generation here, though we 
have plenty of flowering ivy. The common butterflies, P. brassica, 
P. rape, and C. pamphilus have never been so abundant in my 
recollection. _H. Rownanp-Brown; Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, 
June 20th, 1909. 
PANCHLORA NiIvEA, L.—A specimen of this pretty cockroach was 
brought, in the beginning of this month, from Jamaica to Cupar, 
among bananas. It was exceedingly lively when I got it. One 
could not but admire how closely it was adapted to its environment. 
A little less than the “ blackbeetle” of our kitchens, it was hardly 
thicker than a playing-card, of a pale green, with transparent teg- 
mina of a lighter shade. It would be seen with difficulty in the 
crevices of the plant. The specimen has been identified by Mr. 
Grimshaw, of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, where it is 
placed for preservation —Hrnry H. Brown; Cupar Fife, June 19th, 
1909. 
SOCIETIES. 
EntTomonoaican Society or Lonpon.— Wednesday, May 5th, 1909. 
—Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.— Mr. 8. A. 
Neave exhibited three specimens of a remarkable Cistrid fly belonging 
to the genus Spathicera, Corti, captured on the carcase of a rhinoceros 
shot by him near Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia, in February, 1908. 
He pointed out the extreme rarity of individuals of this genus in the 
imago state, though Cistrid larve had long been known and frequently 
recorded in the intestinal canal of Rhinoceros bicornis, and recently 
Prof. Sjéstedt had succeeded in rearing one individual from a larva, 
described by him under the name Meruensis. This seemed also to be 
the first recorded occasion on which the adult insect had actually 
been observed to be following the rhinoceros, and it was of some 
interest in this connection that both sexes were represented (two 
males, one female).—Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition 
examples of Formica exsecta, Nyl., from Parkhurst Forest, Isle of 
Wight, and from the same locality Dinarda hagensi, Wasm., hitherto 
only observed (with the same ant) in Britain at Bournemouth by the 
