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common than usual, and very line specimens of this favourite insect 

 frequented the gardens, seeming, with V. atalanta, to be especially 

 fond of " everlastings." Not a single specimen of V. io was observed, 

 but one fine specimen of V. jwlychlurus was seen on Aug. 4th. Early 

 I saw an hybernated specimen of V. cardni, although I had not seen 

 any during 1900. The spot where I saw it was a favourite walU, and 

 as I saw one on several other occasions, I afc last came to the conclu- 

 sion that it was a solitary specimen, and on July 17th I caught it, and 

 found it to be a male. This was the only example I saw during the 

 season, although I searched the neighbourhood well, and there are 

 plenty of thisdes and also plenty of "ling," of which, I believe, this 

 species is fond. — A. Marshall ; Cranbrook, Kent. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Xovember 6th, 1901. — The 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 Arthur W. Bacot, 154, Lower Clapton Road, London, N.E. ; Mr. 

 Edward Martin Dadd, 3, Colina Villas, Green Lanes, Wood Green, 

 N. ; Mr. George Frederick Leigh, Musgrave Road, Durban, Natal; 

 Mr. Rupert S. Lower, Oswaldton, Bartley Crescent, WayviUe, South 

 Australia; Mr. John Crampton Wilkinson Kershaw, Macao, China; 

 Mr. Henry Woolner Peal, Indian Museum, Calcutta ; Mr. Ethelbert 

 Forbes Skertchly, Hong-Kong ; and Mr. Arthur Smith, 5, Cavendish 

 Street, Grimsby, were elected Fellows of the Society. — The Rev. F. D. 

 Morice exhibited two imperfectly developed females of Osmia lenco- 

 melana found dead in a rubus stem at Woking, with their cases. — 

 Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a series of (Mias hyale taken at Folkestone 

 during August, 1900-1, including one male dwarf, one male with 

 smoky hind wings, one male with the edge of the hind wings showing 

 a double row of serrated curves, three males with very deep yellow 

 colouring and with spots in the centre of the hind wings twice the 

 normal size, one male under side without spots, one male showing a 

 row of black dots running parallel round the fore and hind wings, also 

 one female with the edge of the hind wings showing a double row of 

 serrated curves, one female with extra deep border to the fore wings, 

 and one female with only half the usual border to the fore wings. — 

 Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited a specimen of Trachyphlmia tnyrmeco- 

 philits, Seidl., taken at Hastings in September last, retaining intact 

 the deciduous "false mandibles," with the aid of which the imago of 

 the species of this and certain other genera of weevils is said to work 

 its way to the surface after emerging from the pupa under ground. 

 These mandibles are usually shed as soon as the imago begins its life 

 above ground, as there is no further use for them. — • Mr. W. J. Kaye 

 exhibited a collection of butterflies made by him in Trinidad, with 

 several hitherto undescribed species. He said that the probable total 

 Rhopalocerous fauna was about 250 species, the island— practically, the 

 size of Somersetshire — being thus remarkably rich in butterflies. The 

 number of the species in the families exhibited were: Nymphalidpe, 34 ; 

 Satyridffi, 13; Papilionidte, 6 ; Pieridae, 31 ; Erycinidse, 29; Lycsenid^, 



