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SOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July 10th, 1902.— Mr. F. Noad Clark, President, in the chair.— The 

 President, in a few sympathetic words, referred to the sudden death 

 of Mr. Mark Winkley, an old member, and until recently a regular 

 attendant at both ordinary and field meetings. — Mr. West (Greenwich) 

 exhibited the following Hemiptera taken by Mr. Asliby at Deal during 

 the last week in May and the first week in June: — Podops Inuncta, 

 Sciocoris cursitans, Rhi/parochrojuas chiragra, R.prcBtextatus, Trapezonotus 

 agrestis, Macrodema micropterum, and Plinthisushrevipennis. — Mr. Ashby, 

 several species of Coleoptera he had taken on the Deal sand-hills in 

 June, including Zabrus gibbus, Saprlnws virescens, Melanotics puncto- 

 lineatics, Chrgsoiaela distinguenda, and Apion sedi. — Mr. West, a piece 

 of amber from Maldon, found some forty feet below the surface. There 

 were numerous insects imbedded in it, and, from there being no smell 

 of pine when rubbed, he thought it was not true amber, but gum 

 animi. — Mr. MacLachlan communicated a note on Cotgledon uinbilicus, 

 pointing out its occurrence at Winchelsea and other places in Kent. — ■ 

 Mr. Step read a short report of the Field Meeting at Eanmore Common 

 on June 7th, 1902, and regretted the unfavourable weather which the 

 nineteen who attended had to endure. 



July 24i/j.— The President in the chair.— Mr. F. M. B. Carr ex- 

 hibited twelve varieties, and the male parent of Amplddasys betularia, 

 bred from ova deposited by a black female, taken in cop. at Lee in 

 1901. — Mr. Kemp, a series of Lccmostcnus compJanatiis, a species new 

 to the British list, nearly related to Pristonychus terricola, and taken 

 by him near Dublin. He also showed Carabus clathratas, Pelophila 

 borealis, Blethisa uiulti punctata, ChlcBuias vigricornis, dark Pterostichus 

 cupreus, Bembidium bipunctatiim, Ca^lambas quinque-lineatus, C. novem- 

 Imeatus, OrectocJiilus villosus, and PJiopalomesites tardyi from Lough 

 Neagh, together with Bembidium argentiohun, a recently added species, 

 also from Lough Neagh. From near Dublin he showed Phytosus 

 balticus, Diglossa mersa, yellow Cercyon littorale, Saprinus niantimus, 

 Telephorus danvinianus, Cillenus lateralis, Pulydrusas clirysomela, Hydro- 

 poms several species, Silpha atrata and var. sub rotund ata, Hcemonia 

 appendiculata, CJirysomela baiiksii, Barynotus schdnherrl, Meloe violaceus, 

 and a series of the purely Irish Otiorrhynchus auropmictatus. — Mr. 

 Kemp, a series of the rare Lestes dryas from Hanwell, with L. sponsa 

 for comparison. 



August 14:th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Edwards exhibited 

 ova of Anthrocera tHfolii from Byfleet. — Dr. Fremlin said that, during 

 a recent visit to the Isle of Man, he had taken Dianthcecia ccesia and 

 larvae of Polia xanthomista var. nigrocincta. — Dr. Chapman, specimens 

 of Neuroptera bipennis [lusitanica) from Bajar, in Spain. 



August 28th. — Mr. E. Step, Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr. E. J. 

 Eiley, of 91, Drakefield Road, Upper Tooting, was elected a member. — 

 Mr. South exhibited a series of Apamea ophiogramma, bred from larvae 

 taken in his garden at Tooting. — Mr. Turner, a short series of Agrotis 

 ripcB, bred at the end of June, 1902, from larvae taken in August, 1901, 

 at Dawlish. The variation was very considerable, from very snowy 

 forms to an exceedingly dark example. — Mr, Bowman, a large number 



