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quently proved to be ichueumoued. Mr. Armstrong, who collected in the 

 district referred to between the years 1860 and 1872, informs me that the 

 species used to be abundaut both on the common and in Battersea Park. — 

 Richard South. 



Eurrhypara urticata feedincj on Mint. — In September, 1897, I 

 found a number of the larva? of this species on garden mint in this neigh- 

 bourhood. They bybernated in cocoons iu the usual way, and did not 

 pupate until about three weeks before the perfect insect emerged, which 

 latter event occurred early in July of the present year. — Richard South. 



Dianthcecia capsincola — Larva? of this species have been unusually 

 abundant this year on sweet-william in the garden here. Almost every 

 seed-head was tenauted. Considered from an economic point of view, D. 

 capsincola should probably be included amoug injurious insects. — Richard 

 South ; Upper Tooting, S.W. 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 The meetings, which have been suspended during August on account 

 of redecorating rooms, will be resumed on Thursday, September 8th, 

 and continued on the subsequent second and fourth Thursdays in each 

 month as heretofore. 



Kendal Entomological Society. — August 8th, 1898. — Rev. A. M. 

 Moss, President, in the chair. The meeting was well attended, twenty- 

 two being present, and six new members were elected, bringing the 

 roll of membership up to the encouraging figure of thirty-six. The 

 chief business of the evening was to discuss the district to be worked 

 by the Society, and this with a view to forming a model museum 

 collection, together with a reliable, up-to-date list of the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera of the adjoining country. Such an undertaking, it was 

 felt, would be of invaluable aid and interest to all, if restricted to a 

 limited area. From the geological nature of the country it was seen 

 at once that county boundaries could not be adhered to, so it was 

 resolved that the district recognized by the Society should include a 

 radius of twenty miles round Kendal. The district, therefore, while 

 comprising nearly the whole of Westmoreland, takes in also parts of 

 Cumberland, Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. It was also resolved 

 that, in the event of a local species being found a few miles beyond 

 the assigned district, and yet in more or less similar country, it should 

 be recorded ; the only condition being that the precise locality be 

 given. Mr. Holmes exhibited series of Argynnis aglaia, A. adippe, 

 Erebia epiphron, Lycmia agon, and L. saimacis, one specimen of the 

 latter, a female, showing the orange spots on the right side much 

 lighter than on the left ; it was noticed by several that the females of 

 L. cegon taken this year on Brigsteer Moss are smaller than those taken 

 last year. Mr. Moss, larva? and pupa? of Nemeobius lucina, bred from 

 ova, ; also drawers of Nymphalida? and Satyrida?, and box of recent 

 captures &c, embracing vars. of Aplecta herbida and bred species of 



