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turned out to be C. ambigua. Is not this a new locality? — George C. 

 Hart; Woodside, Howth, Co. Dublin, Feb. 1st, 1898. 



[This species was recorded as " somewhat common " in Devon last year 

 (Eutom. xxx. 305), and specimens are mentioned from South Devon in the 

 same volume, p. 327. — Ed.] 



Pieris raPjE in early January. — Jan. 7th was a bright sunny day — 

 quite spring-like. When out for a walk I found a male P. rapai, alive, 

 but sluggish. Whether it had just emerged from pupa or not I cannot 

 say. I could find no empty pupa-shell anywhere near. It lived in a 

 butterfly vivarium out in my garden for about a fortnight, but a frosty night 

 was fatal to it just when I had begun to speculate on this butterfly passing 

 the winter in a torpid state, at least when the cold was not too severe. — 

 Albert H. Waters, B.A. ; Devonshire Road, Cambridge, Feb. 10th. 



Light-traps in 1897. — The past season, bad in every respect, was 

 much below the average for light-traps. Early in the season the winter 

 moths occurred in much the same numbers as usual, though Hybernia leuco- 

 phcearia and Anisopteryx aiscularia were rather scarce. Later on Nyssia 

 hispidaria was fairly common, Tseniocampae all scarce, as were also the two 

 Tephrosias, bistortata and biundularia, though the second brood of the 

 former occurred plentifully in July. The Boarmias were scarce, and hardly 

 any var. conversaria were taken ; Aventia fiexxda almost absent, and 

 Cleora glabraria entirely so. The autumn work was disastrous, Astero- 

 scopus sphinx occurring in far less numbers than usual, and in poor 

 couditiou. From October to December Pcecilocampa populi occurred in 

 profusion, and was quite the moth of the year. 



The following are additional records for the trap: — Thecla quercus 

 [Vanessa atalanta also occurred for the second time), Lithosia griseola, 

 Nemeophila russula (male and female), Neuria reticulata, Triphcena comes, 

 Diaiithaicia cucubali, Phytometra viridaria, Gnophos obscuraria, Abraxas 

 sylvata, Ligdia adustata, Eupithecia subfulvata, Aglossa pinguinalis, 

 Scoparia crdtagella, Nomophora noctuella, Ebulea crocealis, Perinephele 

 lancealis, Spilonota roborana, Sciaphila chrysantheana, Batodes angusti- 

 orana, Pcedisca corticana, P. solandriana, Scardia arcella, Depressaria 

 arcuella. — E. F. Studd ; Oxton, Exeter. 



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Entomological Society of London. — February 2nd, 1898. Mr. 

 G. H. Verrall, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. L. C. Chawner, 

 of Forest Bank, Lyndhurst ; Mr. F. A. Heron, B.A., of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) ; Mr. Henry Stebbing, of The Shawe, 

 Jarvis Brook, Tunbridge Wells ; and Mr. E. J. Burgess-Sopp, of 

 Saxholme, Hoylake, Cheshire, were elected Fellows of the Society. 

 A letter was read from the Secretaries of the International Congress 

 of Zoology, calling attention to the meeting to be commenced at 

 Cambridge on August 23rd, and extending to the Fellows of the 

 Society the cordial invitation of the Executive Committee to be 

 present. The Secretary also read a letter from Mr. A. D. Michael, of 

 9, Calogan Mansions, S.W., asking if any entomologists, who might 



