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hundreds of larvae during the past thirteen years, and has found 

 it in his own garden, where he regularly sugars. He has not seen 

 a single imago during that period. The larva is not uncommon in 

 sheltered places round here. I frequently sugar, but fimbria is not 

 to be tempted by the most alluring bait. — G. Hanson Sale; 

 Coxbeach. 



Hypena obsitalis. — A good specimen of Hypena obsitalis was 

 taken at ivy in Paignton on October 5th, 1908, by Mr. E. J. Milman. 

 I had neither figure nor description of obsitalis at the time, and 

 though I showed it to many visitors, the specimen was not identified 

 for several years. It agrees with South's var. A. and Tutt's var. 

 costijmncta i Tutt's ' British Noctuse and their Varieties, vol. iv, 

 p. 67), and has a wing expanse of 36 mm. Thus in size it agrees 

 with H. proboscidalis, and I think that, without close observation, 

 obsitalis could be easily overlooked as being ■proboscidalis, though 

 the forewings of obsitalis are narrower and their markings so 

 different. — P. P. Milman ; Paignton. 



ScoPARiA PALLIDA, Stph. — In the January issue of the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' p. 18, Mr. Whittle records the breeding of a single 

 specimen of S. pallida together with a number of frequentella from 

 moss gathered in the neighbourhood of Wakering, Essex. I have 

 not heard of it being bred before and should be greatly obliged 

 if any reader could give me any information concerning the larva 

 and its food. Possibly it may be known on the Continent if not 

 here. I have spent, in years gone by, a good deal of time in a vain 

 search for it among damp moss growing in boggy places where 

 the imago occurs, or used to occur pretty freely. It has struck me 

 since that from the fact that its nearest relation ceinbra is well 

 known to be a root ieedev, pallida may have a similar taste. If such 

 should prove to be the case, the larva from which Mr. Whittle bred 

 his single specimen may have crawled into the moss to spin up. 

 We have a good deal to learn yet about the larval habits of the 

 genus Scopana. — A. Thuknall; Wanstead, Essex, Jan. 10th, 1917. 



Unrecorded Occurrences op the Siricid^ (Hymenoptera). — 

 As occurrences of the Siricidas are recorded from time to time in 

 this journal, the following records, though rather belated, may be 

 of interest. A specimen of Sirex gigas was taken on Eockbourne 

 Knoll, in Hampshire, by the late Mr. W. F. J. Challis in 1912, 

 while he took a specimen of Sirex noctilio in Bournemouth on 

 September 24th, 1911. Both specimens are in my possession. — 

 A. Steven Corbet : Eeading. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 ^ociEiY.— November 9th.~Mr. Hy. J. Turner, E.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. G. W, Mason, of Ealing, was elected a member. — 

 Professor Bateson, F.R.S., gave a lecture with lantern sUdes and 

 other illustrations entitled " Remarks on the Mendelian Theories 

 with especial reference to recent extensions in their application made 



