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South London Entomological and Natural Histoey Society. — 

 May 26th, 1898.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Edwards exhibited a living specimen of a scorpion found by 

 himself in the neighbourhood of Cannes, where it was abundant. It 

 fed readily upon young cockroaches. Mr. West, of Greenwich, a series 

 of the smallest British water-bug, Microvelia pygmma, and stated that 

 it ran readily over the surface of the water. Mr. Turner, a life-history 

 series of Coleophora genistcecolella from Carlisle, showing imagines, and 

 cases made by the larvae on the food-plant, Genista anglica (the petty 

 Avhin). He stated that the larvae were noticed at Oxshott on May 21st, 

 during the field-meeting. 



June 9th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Lucas exhibited 

 coloured drawings of Libelhda fulva, showing details. Mr. Bishop, a 

 bred specimen of Brephos parthenias, having a gap in the wing due to 

 an injury to the pupa. The gap was ciliated. He also exhibited 

 specimens of Thecla rubi, and remarked on the variability of the andro- 

 conial marks in this species, while in all the rest of the genus they 

 were notably constant ; specimens of Rumia luteolata, showing con- 

 siderable range of variation in the red spotting ; and larvae of Tanio- 

 oampa inunda, T. incerta, and T. stabilis. Mr. Tutt, ova of Heplalus 

 '.upulinus, and said that under a glass they looked like little black sloes. 

 Mr. West, of Greenwich, series of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Trapezo- 

 notus agrestis and Tropiistethus holosericeus, obtained by shaking moss in 

 Headley Lane. Mr. Shortridge Clarke gave an account of a remark- 

 able occurrence of thousands of larvae and imagines of Caradrlna 

 quadripunctata (cubicularis) in a large hay-store in tbe Isle of Man. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — May lGth, 1898. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. Mr. B. C. Bradley showed a 

 Trypetid taken on a window in his house at Sutton ; it had been 

 seen by Mr. G. H. Verrall, who said it was Rhacochlcena toxoneura, 

 a genus and species new to Britain and very rare. Mr. P. W. Abbott, 

 Taniocampa ojnma and a series of T. stabilis, in which the orbicular 

 and reniform tend to coalesce ; in one specimen they do coalesce on 

 the right wing but not quite on the left ; all from Wyre Forest. Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, the remainder of his collection of the genus 

 Colias, also Megastoma and Rhodocera ; and pointed out the manner in 

 which Colias ran naturally into Rhodocera through Megastoma. M. 

 centralamericana has a hook tip, but is still like Colias ; M. eurydlce is 

 very like centralamericana in the male, but the female is like Rhodocera 

 rhamni, pale with a good hook tip. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



OBITUARY. 



It is with much regret that we have to record the death of the 

 following distinguished Entomologists. 



Joseph Albert Lintner. — Dr. Lintner, State Entomologist, New 

 York, died in Rome on the 5th of May last, at the age of seventy- 

 six. He was the son of a Lutheran clergyman, and was born at 

 Schoharie in New York State. He had to make his own way in the 



