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trifasciala (two), Mthoiippe procellata (one), M. rivata, M. (jaliata, Aiiticlea 

 ruhidata, Cidaria prunata (one), Chcsias rufata (otie), Scoparia duhitaUs, 

 S. mercurella, S. tnindcolella, S. augustea (one in Oct., 18U5), Ptero2>horHS 

 monoddctijlus, Cramhns perlellns, C. horluellus, Ephcstia huhniclla (one, 

 Nov. JOtli, 1895 1, FJiodophcca consocieUa (one), R advenella (one), Oncocera 

 ahenella (one), Tortrix conjlana, Lcployramma scahrana (one), Peronea 

 viixtana (one), P. schalteriana, P. crUtana, P. ferriirjana, Teras contami- 

 ■nana, Dictyojiteryx hen/manniaiia, Penthina corticana, P. bctiilatana, 

 OrthotcF.nia striana, Phkcodes immundana [one], Padisca occultana, Carpo- 

 capsa spleiididana (one), Catoptria scopollana (or possibly cana), EiipccciUa 

 maculosana, Xanthosetia zoegana (one), Argyrolepia badiana, Lemnato- 

 pJiila phri/r/anella, Talceporia pseudo-bombi/ceUa, Tinea lapella, Swamnier- 

 dammia combinella (one), HyponomeiUa caynayellm, Anesychia decern- 

 f/iUteUa (one), Cerostoiua radiatella, Harpipteryx xylostella (one), Teleia 

 kiuneralis (one), Butalis grandipenins (one), Gracilaria alchimiella (several). 

 — E. F. Studd ; Oxton, Exeter, March 17th, 1897. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — March Srd, 1897. — Mr. E. 

 Trimen, F.R.S., President, iu the chair, Mr. George W. Bird, of the 

 Manor House, West Wickhara, Kent; Mr. Alfred H. Martineau, of 

 Solihull, Warwickshire ; Mr. Hubert C. Phillips, M.R.C.S., of 83, 

 Shirlaud Gardens, W. ; Mr. William A. Vice, M.B., of 5, Belvoir 

 Street, Leicester ; and Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, of 147, Hall Eoad, 

 Handsworth, Birmingham, were elected Fellows of the Society. The 

 Secretary announced that the Committee appointed to consider the 

 question of the protection of British insects in danger of extermination 

 had unanimously resolved that it was desirable to form an Association, 

 the members of which should agree to discourage, by their own ex- 

 ample and by their influence, the excessive collecting of all those 

 species of Lepidoptera which from their habits appeared to be in 

 danger of extermination ; that this resolution had received the approval 

 of the Council, who would refer the matter back to the Committee, iu 

 order that definite proposals for the formation of such an Association 

 might be drafted, and it was hoped to lay these proposals before the 

 Society for discussion upon April 7th. Mr. Champion exhibited, on 

 behalf of Messrs. Godmaii and Salvin, a portion of the Elateridte, and 

 the Cebrionida3 and Rhipidocerida?, recently worked out by him in the 

 • Biologia Centrali-Americana.' -The Elateridfe included 531, the 

 Cebrionida? 29, and the Rhipidocevidfc 14 species, a large proportion 

 of which were described as new. He stated that his labours had been 

 much facilitated by the free access to the very extensive collection of 

 ElateridpB formed by the late E. W. Janson, and by the loan of many 

 types from Dr. Candeze, who had lent valuable aid. He called 

 attention to the excessive rarity of the males in the Elaterid genera 

 Clialculcpidius and Seiniotns (the contrary being the case in the genus 

 Scaptoleniis of the CebrionidaB, and also in many Elateridae), and to 

 the fact that the sexual characters of Semiutus had been misunder- 

 stood, the supposed males being really females. In the "fire-flies" 



