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whilst in the case of the second brood, it is surely not to be 

 expected that our native stock of ichneumons would be able to 

 cope with the hosts of larvae resulting from such an exceptional 

 visitation. — Eustace E. Bankes ; The Kector}', Corfe Castle. 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entobiological Society of London. — Sept. 7, 1887. Dr. Sharp, 

 President, in the Chair. Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., Fellow of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of Woodstock Eoad, Oxford, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited a living 

 larva of Myrmeleon europceus, which he had taken atFontainebleau, 

 on 6th August last. Mr. Elisha exhibited a series of bred speci- 

 mens of both sexes of Zelleria hepariella, Stn. ; and also, on behalf 

 of Mr. C. S. Gregson, a series of eighty varieties oi Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata, selected from the specimens bred during the year 1886 

 from 4000 larvae obtained from eggs laid by selected varieties, the 

 results of crossing and interbreeding for more than twenty years. 

 Mr. Stainton remarked that the female of Zelleria hepariella had 

 until lately been considered a distinct species, and was known as 

 Z. insignipennella, but directly Mr. Elisha began breeding the 

 insect its identity with Z. hepariella was established. Mr. Tutt 

 exhibited specimens of Crambus alpinellus, C. contaminellus, Lita 

 semidecandriella, L. marmorea (dark forms), and L. blandulella 

 (a new species), Doryphora palastrella, and Depressaria yeatiana, 

 all collected at Deal during last July and August. Mr. Stainton 

 observed that Crambus alpinellus was so named from the earliest 

 captures of the species having been made on the lower parts of 

 the Alps, but that it had since been found on the low sandy 

 ground of North Germany ; and its capture at Deal quite agreed 

 with what was now known of the distribution of the species in 

 Germany. It was first recorded as a British species by Dr. Knaggs 

 in 1871, from two specimens taken at Southsea by Mr. Moncreaff. 

 Mr. Stainton further observed that he had named Mr. Tutt's new 

 species " blandulella'' from its similarity to a small maculea, of 

 which one of the best known synonyms was blaudella. He also 

 remarked that Deal was a new locality for Doryphora palustrella, 

 which had hitherto only been recorded from Wicken Fen and 

 the Norfolk Fens in England, and from the neighbourhood 

 of Stettin on the Continent. Mr. Waterhouse exhibited, on 



