310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — November 1st, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 H. Verrall, President, in the chair. Mr. Arthur M. Lea, of Hobart, 

 Tasmania; and Mr. Charles P. Loundsbury, B. Sc, of Cape Town, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited two 

 living specimens of Bostrychus cornutns, Fab., obtained from a wooden 

 stool which was brought from Zanzibar. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse 

 showed a living example of Mcecha hecaie, Chev., a West African 

 species of Longicornia. On behalf of Mr. W. Purley, of Folkestone, 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited the following species of Lepidoptera : — 

 Stigmonota trauniana, one specimen, with the costa less spotted than 

 usual; Lozopera beatricella, six examples, together with the pupa-skins 

 protruding from a stem of Pastinaca sativa ; Pemnea cristana, two 

 examples of a very fine variety; Cledeobia angustalis, two deeply 

 coloured examples; ( 'nimbus inquinatellus var. ; Eudorea dubitalis var. 

 ingratella, two examples ; and Endrotricha flammealis, four examples of 

 a dark variety. Mr. McLachlan showed four examples of Deilephila 

 lineata, taken by Mr. E. W. Hainworth at Victor, Colorado, at an 

 elevation of 9000 feet, on July 23rd, 1899 ; also an ash-twig which 

 had been girdled by hornets, the observation of this curious fact 

 having been made by Mr. W. C. Boyd, of Cheshunt, from whom he 

 received the twig. Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited specimens of Erebia 

 Jiavofasciata , taken at Campoluuga at an elevation of 7000 feet. He 

 stated that the species occurred only in those places where there was 

 an outcrop of dolomitic strata belonging to the crystalline schists, and 

 was not to be met with elsewhere at that elevation, nor was it to be 

 found in association with the same strata at lower levels. Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes exhibited, and gave a brief account of, a collection of Lepidoptera 

 made by Mrs. Nicholl and himself in a part of Bulgaria, that country 

 which had not previously been visited by entomologists. Lyctena 

 eroides, L. anteros, L. zephyrus, Melitcea cynthia, Erebia gorge, and a 

 species which he believed to be Ccenonympha typhon, were a few of 

 several interesting forms to which he directed attention. — J. J. Walker 

 and C. J. Gahan, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 October 26«/t, 1899.— Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Tomlinson, Kingston-on-Thames, was elected a member. Mr. 

 South exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Fowler, of Bingwood, the following 

 varieties of Lycana corydon: (1) A specimen with a shining spot on 

 each fore wing ; (2) a series with the usual black hind marginal borders 

 replaced by white quadrate spots ; (3) a male with traces of orange 

 lunules on the upper surface of the hind wings. He also exhibited a long 

 series of Emydia cribrum, showing extensive variation. Mr. Harrison, a 

 series of Grammesia trigravmiica, including several dark varieties, ap- 

 proaching var. bilinea, from Delamere Forest. Mr. F. M. B. Carr, (1) 

 Dryas paphia from the New Forest, a very fine banded valesina form, 

 taken in July, 1898 ; (2) a dark form of the same species. Mr. Barrett, 

 a bred series of Cidaria truncata (russata), laid by a female captured at 

 West Wickham on June 10th. All were smoky, approaching var. 

 perfuscata. Mr. Merrin communicated a paper entitled "Colour in 



