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Chrysophanus phlceas Ab. schmidtii, Gerh., at Norwood. — On 

 Sept. 24th I captured the above in a held adjoiuing this house. It is a fine 

 specimen, and I shall be pleased to show it to any reader who cares to see 

 it. — Alfred E. Harley-Mason ; Thornlaw House, West Norwood, S.E., 

 Oct. 13th, 1899. 



Abundance of the Larv^; of Orgyia antiqua. — The limes in 

 St. James's Park seem this season to have suffered severely in consequence 

 of the large number of larvae of 0. antiqua. One tree in particular, near 

 the Suspension Bridge, between Birdcage Walk and the Mall, had, when I 

 passed it on July 31st, all its lower branches stripped. Attached, to these 

 branches, which were then putting forth new leaves, there were hundreds 

 of cocoons well packed, with ova.— F> G. Whittle ; 3, Marine Avenue, 

 Southend, Aug. 13th, 1899. 



Errata. — P. 251, line 17 from top, for T. betularia read T.betula;; 

 line 13 from bottom, G. (not E.) Harold Conquest. 



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Entomological Society of London. — October 4th, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 H. Verrall, Vice-President, in the chair. The President announced 

 the death, at the advanced age of eighty-six years, of Mr. Hippolyte 

 Lucas, an Honorary Fellow of the Society. He gave a brief account 

 of the career, and eulogised the work, of the distinguished French 

 entomologist. He also announced the death of Mr. Samuel Stevens, 

 and, in reference thereto, said the Society had to deplore the loss of 

 one of its oldest and most highly esteemed Fellows. Mr. Stevens was 

 formerly for many years Treasurer, and had also been a Vice-President ; 

 and during the whole period of his long connection with the Society had 

 always shown the greatest interest in its welfare. That this interest 

 had up to the last continued unabated was manifested by the terms of 

 his will, in which he had made a bequest to the Society. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. G. Bay ford, a specimen of 

 Galerita bicolor, Drury, a North American beetle of the family 

 Carabidae, said to have been taken many years ago at Doncaster ; also 

 a remarkable variety of Vanessa urticce, L. (ichmisoides, De Selys), cap- 

 tured in the Isle of Sheppey on August 28th, 1899. Mr. B. A. Bower 

 showed dark aberrations of Boarmia rhbmboidaria, Hb., in which the 

 normal colour of the fore wings is replaced by dark brown, causing the 

 fuscous markings to stand out very prominently. The President exhi- 

 bited a specimen of the " Spanish-fly," Lytta vesicatoria, taken last 

 June near Newmarket. He remarked that this handsome beetle was 

 now becoming very rare in England. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, a 

 number of dipterous insects, including a long series of Anthrax paniscus, 

 Rossi, taken in Cornwall at the end of July and beginning of August ; 

 a series of Eumerus ornatus, Mg., from Herefordshire, and E. lunulatus, 

 Mg., from Cornwall ; and a specimen of Maliota eristaluides, Loew., 

 taken near Hereford last July. Mr. H. J. Donisthorpe, specimens of 

 Dytiscus dimhliatus, Berg., and D. circumcinctiis, Ahr., taken last 

 August in Wicken Fen ; also eight specimens of Athous rhombeus, 

 Oliv., including one of the black aberration, which were taken last 



