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state. As the fact of the trees I mention being in a line almost makes a 
private preserve of the locality, so they really ought to be there in numbers. 
I might mention another thing—the species is decidedly not double-brooded ; 
but occasionally a specimen from the autumn brood (not forced) wall make its 
appearance about the end of May, and twice I have found larve at the end 
of July and first week in August, when the moth emerges here. If I am 
as fortunate as usual in securing a female this year, I shall try once more 
(for the last time if a failure) with a number of very small seedling birches. 
—Epwarp Mean; 22, Monks Road, Lincoln, Feb. 13, 1892. 
Tue Leprmoprera oF THE SHETLAND IstAnps.—I understand that 
Mr. MeArthur is about to proceed to the Shetlands, in quest of the many 
curious and interesting forms of Lepidoptera occurring in those islands. 
Already about 94 species of the Order are catalogued from this, the most 
northern, part of Britain; but probably there are ‘still several others 
awaiting discovery. It is to be hoped that in return for the trouble attending 
an expedition of this kind Mr. McArthur will be rewarded by meeting with 
some additions to the fauna list, as well as by being successful with those 
species he knows so wellhow to obtain.—RicHarD Souru. 
Captures oF Diprera In 1891.—Anthomyia pluvialis, bred from oak- 
apple on May 4th; Haorista cheloni@ and Tipula vittata, on May 20th ; 
Cheilosia maculata aud Pachyrrhina annulicornis, on June 9th; Tipula 
gigantea, more common than I have ever seen it; J’. flavolineata and fasci- 
pennis, on June 19th; EHrioptera flavescens and Molobrus ruficauda, on 
June 2Ist; Hrioptera macrothalma and lutea, on June 24th; Lipsothria 
errans and Limnobia ocellaris, on June 22ud; Pachyrrhina cornicina and 
Nephrotoma dorsalis, on July 24th ; Limnobia senilis, Pachyrrhina inper- 
alis, and Platyura discoloria, on July 28th; Callomyia amena and Oay- 
cera pardalina and longicornis, on August 6th; Leptomorphus walkert and 
Sargus bipunctatus, on Sept. Ist; all at Glanvilles Wootton. Calobata 
ephippium and Platychirius immarginatus, at Abbotsbury, on June 15th; 
Beris morrissit and Chrysotus molliculus, at Hook Park, on July 15th; 
Leucopis puncticornis, on Chesil Beach, on July 18th; and last, but not 
least, one of T'halassomyia frauenfeldi, in the Isle of Man, on Oct. 8th.— 
C. W. Dave; Glanvilles Wootton, Jan. 4, 1892. 
SOCIETIES. 
EnromoroeicaLt Soctery or Lonpon. — February 10th, 1892.— Mr. 
Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the chair. ‘The President 
nominated Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S., Mr. Henry John Elwes, 
F.L.S., and Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-Presidents for the session 
1892-93. Mr. Thomas W. Cowan, F.L.S., F.G.S., of 31, Belsize Park 
Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.; Mr. Wm. Farren, of Union Road, Cambridge ; 
Mr. Philip de la Garde, R.N., of H.M.S. ‘ Pembroke,’ Chatham ; the Rev. 
J. A. Mackonochie, B.A., of 76, Grant Street, Glasgow; and the Rev. A. 
Thornley, M.A., of South Leverton Vicarage, Lincolnshire, were elected 
Fellows of the Society; and Mr. Henry A. Hill and Major H. Murray 
were admitted into the Society. Mr. EK. Meyrick exhibited a number of 
specimens of Euproctis fulviceps, Walk., taken by Dr. Barnard, showing 
the extraordinary variation of this Tasmanian species, all the males ot 
