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C. octoge&ima. This, which turned out to be a female, I also suc- 

 ceeded in boxing. Although I have occasionally taken it here before, 

 it is always scarce, as I believe to be the case wherever it occurs. — 

 (Eev.) Gilbert H. Eaynor ; Hazeleigh Eectory, Maldon, June 27th. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 Thursilaij, June l-ith, 190G. — Mr. R. Adkin, P.E.S., President in the 

 chair. — Mr. Penn-Gaskill exhibited a dark suffused specimen of 

 Tephrosia biundnlaria from the Midlands. — Mr. West, examples of 

 Eitclidia mi and E. gli/phica, taken in his garden at Ashtead. — Mr. 

 Sich, an assemblage of thirty-nine pupre of Pieris brassica:, which had 

 been formed in a tumbler placed with the larvfe in the breeding-cage. 

 Light and dark specimens were intermixed at random. — Mr. Lucas, a 

 female example of the snake-fly, Raphidia notata, from the Black 

 Pond, Esher; and also a very sparsely marked example of the scarce 

 scorpion-fly, Panorpa yermanica, from Haslemere. — Mr. Carr, pupre of 

 Porrittia galactodactylus from Horsley. — Mr. F. Noad Clark, on behalf 

 of Mr. Griffiths, a plant of the local Potentilla argentea from Chalfont 

 Eoad, and ova of Hadena pisi. — Mr. Tonge, clusters of ova of Pachetra 

 leucophcBa, which had been found at night on grass- stems, with the 

 female sitting just above them. — Mr. Bellamy read a paper entitled 

 " The Spring in the New Forest, and Whitsuntide ESperiences." — 

 Several members reported that Phnjams livomica had been met with 

 in a few places, and that Pyrameis cardui and Pltisia gamma were 

 common in some parts of the South of England, and were moving on. 

 Jxme 28th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. McArthur exhibited 

 specimens of Dicranura furcula and Axylia piitris, taken around the 

 electric lights at Hammersmith. He noted at the same time numbers 

 of Triphana pronuba, Agrotis exclamationis, and Noctua plecta. He also 

 showed the pupa of Thecla primi. — Mr. Bellamy, two specimens of 

 Phryxus livomica taken in June at Eingwood ; an example of Hesperia 

 malvcB var. taras from Holmsley ; and a partially radiated form of 

 Abraxas grossulariata. — Mr. Tonge, the ova of Aporia crntagi, in situ 

 on a leaf of hawthorn, sent from Hyeres by Mr. Powell. — Mr. Penn- 

 Gaskill, living specimens of Ilarpipteryx xylostella and H. nemorella, 

 with the elongated cocoons of the species. The larvae were found on 

 honeysuckle at Wimbledon. — Mr. West (Greenwich), a series of the 

 rare Hemipteron, Pcecilocytus vulneratus, from Yarmouth. — Mr. Main, 

 the egg-case and young of Phyllodromia gennanica. He said that the 

 young emerged almost as soon as the egg-case was deposited. — Mr. E. 

 Adkin, examples of Notodonta chaonia and Lophopteryx carmelita, which 

 emerged in April, 1906, from 1904 pupte. — Hy. J. Turner (How. Rep. 

 Secretary). 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 May \st. — Eev. C. E. N. Burrows exhibited preserved larvae, including 

 Acidalia degeneraria, Sesia chrysidiformis, and Melitma artemis, — Mr. 

 J. A. Clark, Mesophleps silacellus taken at Falmer, July, 1905. — Mr. 

 W. J. Kaye, Orgyia gonostigma, including first brood reared July, 

 1905, from wild Essex larvae, and a second brood bred in September 



