238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — Juhj 12.th, 1906.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Bellans, of Bedford Park, was elected a member. — Mr. Goultou 

 exhibited the living larvae of Phytometra viridaria [anea] feeding on 

 Polyi/ala vulgaris, and also larvae of Cidaria sufumata. — Mr. Step, ova 

 and larvffi at different instars of Dicranura vinula, and a series of 

 photographs of Lepidoptera at rest, the most interesting of which were 

 Scoparia amhigualis and Aplecta nebulosa. — Mr. Turner, ova, in situ, of 

 Coleophora vimineteUa on willow, C. solitariella on Stellaria holostea, and 

 an imago of Goniodoma limoniclla bred from Statice limonium stems 

 from Southend. — Mr. West (Greenwich), short series of Cniptocephalus 

 parvulus and C. punctiger, together with several Balininus cerasorum 

 from Darenth Wood on July 1st. — Mr. Garrett, living larvae and pupje 

 of Euchlo'e cardamines. — Mr. F. B. Carr, a cocoon and pupa of 

 Sarrothrip7(s undulanus [revayana). 



July 26i/t. — The President in the Chair. — Mr. West (Ashtead), a 

 short series of Plnsla moneta obtained in his garden. — Mr, Moore, a 

 varied series of Epinephele ianira from Boulogne. — Mr. Ray ward, pupae 

 of Polyommatus corydon and Thecla rubi, the former from larvae reared 

 on horse-shoe vetch, and the latter from ova laid on flower heads of 

 dogwood. He also showed ova of Lyccena avion and Plebius agon, and 

 referred to the relatively small size of the former. He further reported 

 that of some thirty larvae of P. corydon taken at Reigate on June 18ih, 

 nearly all were attended by ants, Formica flava, and gave most 

 interesting details of their interrelations. — Mr F. Noad Clark, a 

 photograph of the ova of Trochilium crahroniformis, laid by a female 

 taken by Mr. Edwards at Horsley. — Mr. West and Mr. Asliby, thirteen 

 species of Longicorns taken in the New Forest from May 26th to June 

 9th, including Asemum, Oallidium violaceum, (in numbers), Anoplodera 

 se.vguttata , Leiopus nebulosus, Clytus mysticus, Toxotus meridianus, &c. — 

 Mr. R. Adkin, the beautiful red form, var. furuncula, Hub., of Miana 

 bicoloria. — Mr. Noad Clark, beautiful micro-photographs of the ova of 

 four species of Coleophora recently obtained by Mr. Turner, together 

 with an enlargement of the micropyle of each. — Mr. Tonge, a photo- 

 graph showing the wonderful protective resemblance of the larva of 

 Catocala nupta. — Mr. Sich, (1) living specimens showing a case of 

 Miillerian mimicry between the Gelechiid, Recurvaria [Aphanaula) 

 nanella, and a Hemipteron, Phytocuris tilice, frequenting elm bark ; (2) 

 a very aberrant form of a Pygfera bred from Chiselhurst ; and (3) the 

 ova of Lijcmia alcon on a gentian, with a photograph of the same by 

 Mr. Clark. 



August 9th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Sich, living 

 examples of the Tiueid, Ochsenheimeria vacciilella, with a short sum- 

 mary of the little that is known of the species. — Mr. West and Mr. 

 Ashby, a further portion of the Coleoptera collected by them in the 

 New Forest, including Trachys tronlodytes, Elater sanguinolenta, 

 E. lythropterns, &c. — Mr. Adkin, imagines of I'ygcera pigra and P. 

 curtula, with hybrids for comparison with Mr. Sich's Pygara. Finally 



