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mature buds at the top of the spike. Two full-fed larve thus 
found produced imagos of P. flavicincta. Last year I observed 
the same thing, and have also found the larva on the rose and 
the honeysuckle, in each case feeding upon the flowers, not 
the leaves.—H. Mrinuer; Ipswich. 
GEOMETRA PAPILIONARIA AT Hiaueate.—Referring to Mr. 
A. E. Tonge’s note (Kntom. 65), I find from my diary that I 
took two good specimens of the above-mentioned insect in one 
evening in August, 1877, at the gas lamps near Church Bottom 
Wood, Highgate. They are both males.—W. J. V. Van- 
DENBERGH ; 5, Yale Terrace, Colworth Road, Leytonstone. 
LACCOPHRYS CEPHALOTES, Ratz.— At the end of last summer 
I took an insect which is, without doubt, a male of this in- 
teresting species, which differs from all the other genera of 
Bracons in the attachment of the abdomen; instead of springing 
from the lower part of the metathorax in the usual manner, it is 
inserted high up above the coxe, making the side view very like 
a Fenus. Ratzeburg wrongly identifies it with Wesmael’s Opius, 
from which it is certainly distinct, as the hind head is very 
distinctly margined, and, though it is now referred to the 
Diospilide, it does not accord very well with that group. To 
me it seems to have more affinity with the Ichneutide. Its 
general appearance is very like IJchneutes rewnitor, and the 
radial areolet is very little longer than the stigma. The large 
buccate head and structure of the abdomen make it easy to be 
recognised. It does not appear to have been taken previously in 
England.—E. Carron; Shiere, Jan. 7, 1886. 
EnromoLoeicaL Society aT OxrorD.—I should be very glad 
if any of your readers could give me particulars of any Ento- 
mological Club or Society in Oxford. Also of any hints as to 
the working of the surrounding country.—L. Surrace; Hertford 
College, Oxford, March 10, 1886. 
KrratuM.—Page 64, line 9, for ‘‘ opening” read “ spinning.” 
SOCIETIES. 
EntromonoeicaL Society oF Lonpon.—March 3rd, 1886. 
R. M‘Lachlan, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Mr. J. M. C. 
Johnston was elected a Fellow, and Cavaliere Piero Bargagli, of 
