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SOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July ISth, 1899.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. Messrs. J. R. Picken, of Brixton ; A, A. Buckstone, of South 

 Norwood Park ; S. W. Gadge, of Brixton ; and G. W. Tombs, of 

 Dalston, were elected members. Mr. Lucas exhibited a finely-marked 

 specimen of Libellula quadrimaculata var. pranubila, taken at the Black 

 Pond, Esher. Mr. R. Adkin, bred specimens of Pachnobia hyperborea 

 from Rannoch. Mr. Turner, the following species and varieties of 

 dragonflies, taken during the field meeting at Byfleet on June 10th : — 

 Pyrrhosoma nymphula (minium), with P. tenellum for comparison ; 

 Enallagma cyathigerum, with a variety having the longitudinal portion 

 of the black mark on tbe basal segment wanting ; Ischnura elegans and 

 a red-bodied female variety ; Agrion puella ; A. pulchellum; Erythramna 

 najas ; Brachytron pratense ; and Calopteryx splendens. He also showed 

 a male Anax imperator (formosus), and both sexes of the very local 

 Orthetrum cancellatum, from Woolmer Forest. Mr. Lucas read a report 

 of the field meeting held at Byfleet on June 10th. Mr. Adkin read a 

 report of the field meeting held at Chalfont Road on July 1st. Mr. 

 Carrington gave a very interesting account of a recent visit he bad 

 made to Bradwell-juxta-mare, a village on the Blackwater near 

 Southminster. 



July 21th. — Mr. F. Noad Clark in the chair. Mr. Fremlin 

 exhibited a store-box of insects he had taken during a holiday at 

 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and gave a full account of the neigbbour- 

 hood from a natural-history point of view. Among the exhibits 

 Melanippe montanata and Camptogramma bilineata were much varied. 

 Mr. West, a specimen of the snake-fly (Rhaphidium) and the Homoptera 

 Pediopsis fuscinervis, and Cixius cunicidaris with var. dionysii, all from 

 West Wickham. Mr. Clark, a photomicrograph of the egg of Eubolia 

 cervinata. 



August 10th.— Mr. T. W. Hall, F.E.S., in the chair. Mr. Malcolm 

 Burr exhibited a large number of species of the orthopterous family 

 Eumastacidas, which he was monographing, and contributed notes on 

 their distribution, with detail drawings by Mr. E. H. T. Schuster, of 

 Oxford. He also showed the specimens of Orthoptera which had been 

 brought from Socotra by Mr. Ogilvie Grant, as a portion of the result 

 of the recent expedition. Mr. Sauze, a considerable number of insects 

 of all orders, taken in Hampshire and Dorset during his recent holiday 

 there. 



August Mth. — Mr. Robert Adkin, F.E.S., in the chair. Mr. Edwards 

 exhibited a number of insects of various orders from Borneo and India, 

 including the large bee Xylocopa latipes (of which the male has paddle- 

 shaped fore legs), the enormous digging wasp, Triscoliaproeera, the giant 

 ant, Camponotus gigas, and several remarkable species of Pompiliida?, 

 together with a large immature Tarantula, specimens of the crab 

 spiders, Gasteracantha, and the rare allied genus to the scorpions, 

 Thelyphonus. Mr. West exhibited three species of Hemiptera — Oncotylus 

 viridijiavus, found on Centaurea at Wisley ; Tricopsyila ivalkeri, found on 

 buckthorn at Box Hill ; and Terenthia lata, obtained by sweeping at 



