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the same two species that Mr. J. J. Walker found established under 

 somewhat similar conditions at Queenborough, in Sheppey — viz. 

 Anisolabis anmdipes, Luc. (Entom. xxx. 125), and Apterij(jida arachidis, 

 Yers. (Burr, Brit. Ortliop. 17). — W. J. Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames, 

 April 5th, 1900. 



The Pupal Habits of Cossus ligniperda. — Mr. Adkin's note upon 

 this subject {ante, p. 128) appears to me to somewhat understate the 

 case. While admitting that I have found pupa-cases, both on the 

 ground and even at some considerable distance from any possible 

 feeding-place for tlie larva, my experience shows that for the most 

 part the cases have been found protruding from the burrow in which 

 the larva has fed. C. ligniperda is so plentiful in this district as to be 

 a pest, and five years ago a large willow-tree was killed outright by the 

 devastation of this insect. One evening I took seventeen specimens 

 (apparently just emerged) from the trunk of that tree, and at least 

 twice as many pupa-cases were to be seen projecting from holes in 

 which the larva? had wrought their deadly work. Moreover, I was 

 fortunate enough to witness in one case the emergence of the imago : 

 the pupa projected about three-quarters of an inch from the trunk, and 

 was about three feet from the root ; it split laterally, and the anterior 

 portion fell to the ground, leaving the posterior part sticking in the 

 hole. In those days my entomological knowledge was very superficial, 

 but the circumstances of that occasion are particularly impressed upon 

 me, as my companion was unfortunate enough to discover a nest of 

 wasps, but, unluckily for him, not until after they had discovered him. 

 Our studies of the habits of Cussus ligniperda cost him three weeks in 

 bed. — William A. Carter ; Burr Villas, Bexley Heath, Kent, April 9th. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — March 21st., 1900. — Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. R. T. Cassal, of Ashby, 

 near Doncaster ; Mr. Neville Chamberlain, of Highbury, Moor Green, 

 near Birmingham; Mr. E. A. Elliott, of 41, Holland Park, W. ; Mr. 

 H. Willoughby Ellis, of Knowle, Warwickshire ; Mr. J. H. Keys, of 

 6, Seymour Terrace, Lipson, Plymouth ; the Piev. W. J. Leigh 

 Phillips, M.A., of The Cottage, Parkwood Eoad, Tavistock, Devon ; 

 Mr. H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn, M.A., of Glensyde, Bidborough, near 

 Tunbridge Wells; and Mr. C. J. Watkins, of Kings Mill House, 

 Painswick, Gloucestershire, were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. 

 R. McLachlan exhibited an extraordinary aberration of Enallagma 

 cyathigerxun, Charp, taken by Mr. Morton at Glen Lochay, Scotland; 

 the remarkable feature consisted in the predominance of black over 

 blue in the coloration of the abdomen. Mr. M. Burr exhibited a 

 macropterous variety of Xiphidium dorsale, Latr., captured by Mr. 

 Harwood near Clacton, remarking that the fact of this species 

 presenting a macropterous form was apparently unrecorded hitherto. 

 Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited Nyssia Impidaria, an asymmetrical specimen 

 taken on Wimbledon Common, the left fore wing of which was perfectly 



