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Field Meeting of the South London Entomological and 

 Natdkal History Society. — The second field meeting of the season was 

 held on Saturday, June 11th, at Reigate. Sixteen members and two 

 friends left Cannon Street Station by 2.17 train ; and on their arrival at 

 Reigate were met by three other members, making the total attendance 

 twenty-one. On leaving the station yard the " Pilgrims Way " was taken 

 to the " Downs," which are reached by a walk of about half a mile ; and 

 the afternoon was spent on the portion of the hill-side towards Betchworth. 

 On returning a substantial tea was served at the Railway Hotel ; and the 

 homeward railway journey commenced a little before nine o'clock. The 

 weather was all that could be desired for a country ramble, the heat of the 

 brilliant sunshine being tempered by a light northerly breeze ; but the pre- 

 dominance of the latter and lack of the former during the preceding week 

 had not been conducive to the capture of a large number of species on 

 even so promising a day. Some fifty species of Lepidoptera were, however, 

 noted. These were as follows: — Pieris hrassicas, P. napi, P. raps,, Euchloe 

 cardamines, Gonopteryx rhamni, Pararge megara, Vanessa cardiii ? ', V. ur- 

 ticm, V. atalanta, Camonympha pamphilus, Polyommatus phloeas, Thecla 

 rubi, hycana icarus, L. minima, L. astrarche, L. argiolus, L. bellargus, 

 Syrichthus malvce, Nisoniades tages, Hepialus lupulinus, Zygcena filipendulce 

 (pupae), Setina irrorella, Bombyx rubi, Euchelia jacobcece, Plusia gamma, 

 Cucullia verbasci (larvae), Phytometra viridaria, Euclidia mi, E. glyphica, 

 Rumia luteolata, Venilia maculata, Eupithecia vulgata, Acidalia remutata, 

 A. ornata, A. subsericeata, Ematurga atomaria, Bapta temerata, Islelanippe 

 montanata, M. rivata, M. sociata, Camptogramma biiineata, Anaitis plagiata, 

 Mimceseoptilus phceodactylus (larvae), Scoparia dubitalis, Crambus pratellus, 

 C. hortuelius. C. pascuellus ?, Penthina gentiana. Next field meeting : 

 Chatham, July 9th. 



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Entomological Society of London. — June 1st, 1898. — Mr. R. 

 Trimen, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Prof. B. Grassi, M. Hippolyte 

 Lucas, and Dr. August Weismann were elected Honorary Fellows ; 

 and Mr. C. H. A. Brooke, of 67, Holland Park Avenue, Kensington, 

 W., and Mr. G. B. Dixon, of St. Peter's Road, Leicester, were elected 

 Ordinary Fellows of the Society. Mr. P. B. Mason exhibited a speci- 

 men of the rare Lathridius filum from his own herbarium. It had been 

 previously taken at Edinburgh by McNab, and he understood that an 

 example had been found in a sealed envelope containing Marchantia 

 from Franz Josef Land. Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited a singular blue 

 variety of C ambus monilis, Fabr., resembling in colour C. intricatus, 

 and taken at Iwade, Kent, in floor-rubbish in May. Mr. Merrifield 

 forwarded for exhibition from Riva, on the Lago di Garda, larvae of the 

 " Corsican form," var. ichnusa of Aglais urticte. Mr. G. C. Champion 

 called attention to Mr. A. Somerville's recently-published sheet of the 

 County and Vice-county divisions of the British Isles for biological 

 purposes, and a discussion ensued thereon. Papers were communi- 

 cated by Sir G. F. Hampson, Bart., on "The Moths of the Lesser 

 Antilles," and by Mr. J. H. Leech, on " Lepidoptera-Heterocera from 

 Northern China, Japan, and Korea." — W. F. H. Blandford, Hon. Sec. 



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