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Point, one on Sept. 5th, and the other on Sept. 8th ; but I had no 

 net with me, so did not take them. 



The above represents the bulk of my observations among the 

 Diurni during the past year. Two facts seem to stand out pro- 

 minently, when one looks back upon the season as a whole : the 

 weather has been atrocious, and even moderate success has only been 

 gained after unusually hard work ; and nearly every species has been 

 much later than usual in its time of appearance. — P. A. Oldaker ; 

 Parsonage House, Dorking, Oct. 23rd, 1902. 



Notes from Shropshire. — Astliena hlomeri was very common at 

 Hopton Wagers, near Clevening Mortimer, during the first week of 

 July last. It occurred only in some covers bordering a small stream, 

 resting on the trunks of beech-trees ; and I also beat it out of bramble- 

 bushes growing amongst the trees. The part where it was to be found 

 was only about three quarters of a mile long and about fifty yards 

 wide. Other captures in July : — Anji/miis sclene, common in lanes ; 

 A, euphrosijne, Pararge egeria, Thecla ruhi, Lijcmia icariis, Syrichthus 

 malva. (one), Hesperia sylvanns, Zygmia fllipendula, very common in 

 some fields ; Dasychira pudibunda, a few ; one female laid several 

 batches of eggs, from which hatched out over three hundred larva3. 

 Tkyatira hatis, caught last year, as also were Cliaraas yramvnu, Melan- 

 thia alhicillata, Melanippe muntanata. Triplicena pronuha swarmed round 

 laurel bushes in full bloom. — C. Pi. Y. Boxer ; 151, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — November 5th, 1902. — The 

 Eev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D. Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Lieutenant T. Delves Broughton, E.E., of Alderney, Channel Islands ; 

 Mr. Arthur Percival Buller, of Wellington, New Zealand, and of the 

 Inner Temple, E.C. ; the Kev. Canon C. T. Cruttwell, M.A., of Ewelme 

 Eectory, Oxfordshire ; Mr. K. S. Hole, of the Eectory, North Tawton, 

 Devon; and Mr. W. E. Sharp, of Ledsham, Shakespeare Eoad, Han- 

 well, W., were elected Fellows of the Society. — The Secretary informed 

 the meeting that a request for certain alterations in the bye-laws, 

 signed as required by Chapter 21 thereof, having been received by the 

 Council, Mr. Arthur J. Chitty had been good enough to draft the 

 necessary amendments. Mr. Chitty then read the proposed amend- 

 ments, and explained the course to be taken to carry them into effect. — 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.E.S., exhibited, on behalf of Mrs. Mary de la 

 Beche Nicholl, a collection of butterflies made by her in February, 

 March, and April, 1902, in Southern Algeria ; also a collection of 

 butterflies afterwards made by her in the Picos de Europa, in Spain ; 

 the latter collection comprised about eighty-five species, and was made 

 in twenty-five days. Mr. Elwes remarked that these collections con- 

 tained several interesting species of Ercbia, Lyeana, and other genera, 

 and included three species not at present represented in the British 

 Museum Collection. — Dr. Chapman exhibited, and made remarks on, 

 two butterflies taken last July at Bejar, in West Central Spain, both 

 notable as being very decidedly larger than any forms of the same 

 species recorded from any other locality. He stated that one of them 



