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steadily increased in numbers, being always most prolific in the spring 

 emergence. At Wandsworth, where my present duties have taken 

 me every day for the past year, it has been everywhere in evidence, 

 reacliing Citywards to within a few hundred yards of Vauxhall station. 

 Equally tenacious of locality is Plusia moneta. For eighteen suc- 

 cessive years this beautiful Noctuid has bred regularly in our garden ; 

 and, seeing that for the past five years at least the aconite has been 

 reduced to a couple of somewhat meagre plants, it is astonishing that 

 it should have continued to prosper. True, occasional larvae have 

 been detected on delphinium, but there is no doubt which is the 

 favourite food plant ; and this year again my tiny preserve shows 

 every sign of yielding an abundant emergence at the end of June ; 

 the emergence being then most regular, and commencing, whether 

 the season has been late or early, during the last three or four days 

 of the month. — H. Kowland-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, 

 May 26, 1917. 



Preponderance of Males of Gonepteryx ehamni. — When the 

 weather was sufficiently warm and bright from April 5th to 24th, 

 G. rhamni was on the wing in numbers in the New Forest ; but only 

 on one occasion, April 19th, were any females seen, and then only 

 very few compared with the large number of males. They may, of 

 course, have been sufficiently plentiful, but for some reason did not 

 take to the wing. — L, C. E. Balcomb ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Brephos parthenias. — From April 5th to 24th this moth was 

 very common in the New Forest, usually, of course, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of birches. The very backward spring clearly accounts for 

 its late date. — L. C. B. Balcomb ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Cyanieis argiolus. — From about May 4th the "Holly Blue" has 

 been very numerous in the streets and gardens of Kingston-on- 

 Thames. A certain " variegated laurel," so-called, attracts it, though 

 the mistake seems to be immediately discovered. I hear that it is 

 common also in the neighbouring town of Richmond. — L. C. E. 

 Balcomb ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



Cyaniris argiolus in the City. — Perhaps it may be interesting 

 to record that I saw a specimen of Cyaniris argiolus flying in Queen 

 Victoria Street, E.C., at noon to-day. — L. E. Dunster ; 44, St. John's 

 Wood Terrace, Eegent's Park, N.W.; May 4th, 1917. 



EuGONiA POLYCHLOROS IN West London. — It may be worth 

 recording that I caught a Large Tortoiseshell butterfly on the 

 dining-room window of this house this morning. — G. C. Turner ; 

 49, Cleveland Square, W., May 2nd, 1917. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— ^^j?^Z 12^/i, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. — Mr. Edwards exhibited species of the genera Nectaria 

 and Hestia, highly protected butterflies, and referred to their nume- 



