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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Notes from the South-west of England in August, 1898. — 

 While at Lyme Regis in Dorset, early in August last, I saw three 

 specimens of Colias edusa on the cliffs between that place and Seaton. 

 One of the three, a fresh male, I captured on August 11th. In the 

 evenings Miami bicoloria was very abundant on the waste ground above 

 the beach just outside Lyme. In the middle of the month I found a deuse 

 colony of Lycana corydon along the banks of the main road between 

 Salisbury and Wincanton just on the edge of the plain. A few perfectly 

 fresh Vanessa cardui also occurred in the same place. I saw Colias edusa 

 again, about August 20th, in a clover field near Taunton. Gonopteryx 

 rhamni was very abundant in the same neighbourhood. During the last 

 fortnight of the month we found the electric light at Taunton very 

 attractive to moths. Most of them were of the commoner Noctuae, Plusia 

 gamma swarming on some nights ; but among better moths we took 

 Dicranura furcula, Notodonta dictcea (common), Acronycta rumicis, Agrotis 

 puta, Noctua c-nigrum, Eugonia alniaria, and E. fuscantaria. — Alfred 

 S. Tetley ; Newtown, N. Wales. 



Information Wanted. — I am anxious to devote next summer to 

 making as good a collection of English and European butterflies as can be 

 managed, personally, in the time. I should be very grateful if any reader 

 of the ' Entomologist' could tell me the most likely places to go to, and the 

 most favourable dates. — C. B. Wilkieson ; Queen Anne's Mansions, West- 

 minster, S.W., Feb. 17th, 1899. 



Lepidoptera in the Halifax District. — Mr. Edward Halliday, in 

 a note to the ' Halifax Naturalist ' (February, 1899), states that the past 

 year was a bad one for Lepidoptera in his district. He writes : — " All the 

 butterflies, except the common whites, have been rare. On the moors the 

 emperor moth was less plentiful than usual ; and other local moths, such 

 as Celcena haworthii and Scodiona belgiaria have been more scarce than I 



have ever known them I met with very few Dasypolia templi in 



October this year." 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — January 18th, 1899. — Sixty- 

 sixth Annual Meeting.— Mr. Roland Trirnen, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. The balance-sheet of the Society's accounts, showing a large 

 balance in favour of the Society as against a nominal one in January, 

 1898, was read by Mr. A. H. Jones, one of the auditors. The Report 

 of the Council was next read, from which it appeared that during 1898 

 the Society had lost three Fellows by death and eight by resignation, 

 while three honorary Fellows and thirty four ordinary Fellows had 

 been elected. This was the largest addition to the Society's ranks in 

 any year, except 1886, when the circumstances were exceptional. The 

 number of Fellows now stood at 424, of whom twelve were honorary. 

 The ' Transactions ' for the year formed a volume of 444 pages, and 

 comprised twenty-two papers, contributed by nineteen authors, and 

 illustrated by nineteen plates. The library had been largely augmented 

 during the year by the bequest of the late Mrs. H. T. Stainton of such 

 books in her husband's large entomological library as were not pre- 



