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SOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June mrd, 1898.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Broome, Christclmrch, Oxford, was elected a member. Mr. Filer 

 exhibited living larvae of Thecla rubi feeding on rock-rose (Cistus), and 

 called attention to their remarkable protective coloration. Mr. Adkin, 

 larva3 of Acidalia marginipunctata (promutata), and read notes on their 

 habits. Some were nearly full-fed, while others were small. The 

 ova had hatched in the early autumn. Mr. Moore, two fine varieties 

 of Arctia caia bred from ova by Mr. Cooke : 1, fore wings uniformly 

 dark chocolate without the usual cream markings ; 2, fore wings with 

 a very considerable decrease in the area covered by the dark markings. 

 The larvaa, some sixty in number, fed all the winter on cabbage. Mr. 

 West, the Coleoptera he had taken at the Keigate field-meeting. Mr. 

 Barnett, a specimen of Venilia maculata having the dark blotches 

 irregularly joined and blurred on one side only. 



July lAth. — Mr. B. Adkin, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 Mr. H. Shortridge Clarke, F.E.S., Sulby Vicarage, Isle of Man, was 

 elected a member. Mr. South exhibited a series of Lycana corydon, to 

 illustrate the variation in the number and arrangement of the spots on 

 the under surface ; also a series of forty-two Spilosoma lubricipeda , 

 comprising thirty-five var. zatima — radiata in both sexes, and seven 

 typical males, all reared from ova laid by a dark female zatima. Mr. 

 Moore, a dwarf specimen of Polyommatus icarus from Folkestone. 

 Mr. Lucas, specimens of Libellula quadrimaculata showing considerable 

 variation in the size of the dark spot, and also in the amount of the 

 saffron coloration. Mr. West (Greenwich), a short series of the local 

 hemipteron, Lojms jlavomarginatns, from Abbey Wood. Mr. Dennis, 

 the egg of Polymmatus icarus under the microscope. It was com- 

 parable to a beautiful white double dahlia. Mr. Adkin read a report 

 of the field-meeting held at Reigate on June 11th. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — June 20th, 1898. — Mr. B. C. 

 Bradley in the chair. Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, Park Grove, Solihull, 

 was elected a member. Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed a short series 

 of Orthoneura elegans (four males, four females) and O. brevicomis 

 (nine males) from Sutton, taken on May 15th and 22nd this year, and 

 said that both species were exceedingly rare, and that they had 

 previously been known as British only from a few odd specimens. 

 Mr. Bradley showed Anthophora pilipes and Andrena gwynana, both 

 of which species had been very common at Droitwich in the first week 

 of April this year. Mr. Martineau said that A. pilipes occurred at 

 Solihull, and was doing much damage to the church wall by burrowing 

 in the red sandstone of which it consists. Mr. Fountain showed a 

 collection of insects made in Herefordshire on Whit Monday, including 

 Epione advenaria, Ligdia adustata, Minoa eup/iorbiata , Epliyra omicrunaria, 

 Hadena genista, Cucullia verbasci, &c. Mr. Martineau showed Andrena 

 cingulata, male and female, from Bewdley, where they were taken on 

 May 9th ; he said they were the first local specimens he had heard of. 

 — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



