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' Entomologist,' p. 287, on the late appearance of P. viegara on 

 November 13th, my brother-in-law, Mr. F. B. Hinchcliff, who was 

 shooting in this neighbourhood on that day, tells me he saw two 

 specimens of P. egeria, var. egerides, and one of my daughters saw 

 P. atalanta on the 16th of the same month — a fine bright day, but 

 much colder than the 13th. — Geevase F. Mathew, F.L.S., P.B.S., 

 Paymaster -in- Chief, B.N. ; Instow, North Devon, December 11th, 

 1916. 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological, Society op London. — Wednesday, October IQth, 

 1916.— Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Prof. E. Bugnion, La Luciole, Aix-en-Provence, France, 

 and Eev. Bruce Cornford, 13, Havelock Eoad, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society.— Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. 

 Joicey, exhibited some new and little-known examples of resem- 

 blance in butterflies. — Pi"of. Poulton gave an account of some 

 experiments on spiders with butterfly food and observations on the 

 attacks of birds on butterflies, in British East Africa, by the Rev. 

 K. St. Aubyn Rogers. He also related some observations by Dr. 

 R. Hanitsch on the proportions of the female forms of Pajnlio 

 2)olytes, L., on Singapore Island, and exhibited all the females and a 

 selection of males of the series of P. polytes, F., romulus, Cr., on 

 which they were based. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited an ergatandro- 

 morph of Myrmica laevinodls which he had taken in his garden at 

 Putney on October 11th. — Mr. W. C. Crawley exhibited mermitho- 

 gynes of Lasius flavus and L. alienus taken at Porlock ; also the 

 alate $ 9 . hitherto unknown, of the common ant aphids, Forda 

 forniicaria, Heyden, and F. viridana, Buckton, taken at Porlock with 

 Lasius alieno-niger. — Dr. Cockayne exhibited a $ Psychid, bred 

 July, 1916, from a larva found on a Japanese dwarf cedar at 

 Hammersmith, together with the larval case. — -Mr. L. W. Newman 

 exhibited true melanic (unicolorous black) specimens of Eupithecia 

 lariciata from Warwickshire ; melanic specimens of Boarmia con- 

 sonaria from Kent ; dark type, intermediate and melanic specimens 

 of B. consortaria from Warwickshire ; also on behalf of Mr. G. B. 

 Oliver two curious aberrations of the latter species. — Mr. H. Main 

 exhibited a pupal cell in situ of the beetle Dytiscus marginalis, together 

 with a spectroscopic photograph of the pupa in its cell, showing how 

 it rested on its extremities, the rest of the body being unsupported. 

 — Mr. Bedwell exhibited on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. Pool an exception- 

 ally large ^ of Emus hirtiis taken near Rochester in September, and 

 also a specimen of Megai^enthes lugens taken by Mr. D. Gumming, in 

 May, 1915, on holly blossom near Lyndhurst. Mr. Bedwell also 

 exhibited a living specimen of Elater coccinatus from Waltham 

 Abbey, with examples of E. pomonae and E. sanguinolentus, and the 

 thorax of each species mounted separately for comparison. — The 

 following papers were read : " Falkland Island Diptera," by C. G. 

 Lamb, M.A., B.Sc. ; communicated by F. W. Edwards, F.E.S. 

 "Observations on the Growth and Habits of the Stick Insect, 

 Caransius morosus, Br.," by H. Ling Roth ; communicated by Prof 

 Poulton, D.Sc. F.R.S., etc. 



