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SOCIETIES. 
EnromonLoeicaL Society or Lonpon.—September lst, 1886. 
Robert M‘Lachlan, Esq., F’.R.S., President, in the chair. The 
following gentlemen were elected Fellows :—The Rev. Professor 
Dickson, D.D., of Glasgow University; Mr. P. Cowell, of Liver- 
pool; Mr. A. O. Walker, of Colwyn Bay, North Wales; and Mr. 
Lyddon Surrage, of Hertford College, Oxford. The President 
remarked with regard to the gnats from the Kent Water-works, 
exhibited at the last meeting, that Professor Westwood had since 
informed Mr. Douglas that they were only the ordinary Culex 
pipiens. Mr. Slater exhibited certain parasites found on the 
body of a larva of Smerinthus tilie, which Mr. Waterhouse 
believed to be Uropoda vegetans, a species of Acari. Mr. W. 
Warren exhibited the following Lepidoptera, viz. :—Hwupithecia 
fraximata, caught in Regent’s Park; EH. wmnotata (Hub.), bred from 
Artemisia maritima ; a variety of Hupithecia satyrata ; a Gelechia, 
caught in Wicken Fen twenty years ago by Mr. Bond, and believed 
to be a new species; G. fumatella (Dgl.) or celerella (Stn.) from 
Hayling Island; G. vilella (Zell.), bred from larve collected on 
the Essex coast on mallow; Lithocolletis scabiosella (Dgl.), bred 
from larve found near Croydon; and Catoptria parvulana (W1k.), 
bred by Mr. Vine, of Brighton, from Serratula tinctoria. He also 
exhibited larvee of Gelechia vilella. Mr. South exhibited speci- 
mens of Dicrorampha distinctana (Hein.), and stated that he 
considered it to be merely a variety or local form of D. consortana, 
from which, in the larval stage, it could not be separated. Mr. 
Stevens exhibited a living specimen of Clerus formicarius, recently 
found under the bark of an ash tree in Arundel Park, Sussex. 
Mr. Billups exhibited Chrysis succincta (Linn.), taken by sweeping 
at Chobham, on the 28th July last. He stated that this very rare 
species was recorded by Shuckard as having been taken in a sandy 
lane near Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, and at Blackwater, on 
the borders of Berks and Hants; and he further stated that the 
late Mr. Frederick Smith had also taken two specimens of this 
species in Hampshire. Mr. Billups also exhibited Microphysa 
elegantula (Baer.), taken at Broadstairs, Kent, on the 23rd August 
last. The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 
Theodore Wood, a larva of Langelandia anopthalma (Aubé), a 
