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several often being on the wing at once. Unfortunately, having only one 

 day's collecting, I was unable to work the place fully, or more species 

 might have been obtained. In addition to the insects just noted, the 

 following were taken ou this occasion: — Gonopteryx rhamni, Melanippe 

 galatea, Argynnis dia, Thecla w-album, Polyommatus argiolus (worn), 

 P. aeis (female), and a IAmenitis, probably L. Camilla. — Graham Renshaw ; 

 Sale Bridge House, Sale, Manchester. 



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Entomological Society of London. — April 6th, 1898. — Mr. K. 

 McLachlan, F.R.S., Vice-President and Treasurer, in the chair. Sir 

 Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bart., of Smeaton-Hepbum, Prestonkirk, 

 E. Lothian, N.B., was elected a Fellow of the Society. On behalf of 

 Mr. Greenshields, Mr. Jacoby exhibited specimens of the longicorn 

 beetle, Micropsalis dumfordi, Burm., from Patagonia. Mr. Green- 

 shields, who was present, stated that this species, remarkable for the 

 great development of the palpi, was originally taken by Darwin ; his 

 own examples were taken hiding in thorny bushes in a dry water- 

 course. Mr. Champion exhibited European examples of Harpalus 

 frohlichi, a newly discovered British species. Mr. B. 0. Bower showed 

 living larvae of Caradrina ambigua, an insect which had recently 

 occurred in England in countless numbers. They were bred from ova 

 laid by a female taken on the South Devon coast, and fed indis- 

 criminately on low plants. Mr. M. Burr read a paper supplementary 

 to Mr. Green's previous communication on Dyscritina, and referred the 

 imagos definitely to the genus Diplatys, D. longisetosa, Westw., being 

 a good species, and Mr. Green's new form proving to be D. nigriceps, 

 Kirby. Dr. Chapman read a paper on the larva of Eriocephala allionella, 

 which he stated to be essentially similar to that of E. calthella, pre- 

 viously described by him. — W. F. H. Blandfokd, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological Society. — March 15th, 1898. — The 

 Rev. C. N. Burrows exhibited a series of Calligenia miniata, showing 

 considerable variation, some with scarcely any black markings on the 

 fore wings, some orange, and two quite yellow in colour, instead of the 

 usual pink or pale red. Mr. A. W. Mera, a cocoon of Eriogaster 

 lanes tris, which he had broken into, and in which he had found the 

 larval skin of the caterpillar, two pupa-cases of parasitic Diptera, one 

 large and one small, and the attenuated corpse of the dipteron which 

 had emerged from the larger pupa, but which had not been able to 

 escape from the compact walls of the cocoon. The lid of the smaller 

 pupa-case was raised, and the legs of a dipterous imago protruded, but 

 the fly had died in the skin, there being no room for its emergence. 

 Mr. L. B. Hall exhibited Enoplops scapha, a large bug, and four beetles, 

 Athons difformis (male and female), a species only found in the South of 

 England, the female being very scarce, and having the thorax more 

 spherical than the male; male and female examples of Campylus 

 linearis. In this latter species the female is scarcer than the male, and 

 has the elytra generally black, with testaceous borders, the elytra of 

 the male being testaceous. All five insects were captured at Hastings. 



