174 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
line of sight, and when within reach were made captive. Among the speci- 
mens thus added to the bag were Leucania comma, Apamea basilinea, 
Grammesia trigrammica (= trilinea). On the way to the station, speci- 
mens of Hmmelesia affinitata, E. decolorata, and a very pretty example of 
Melanippe montanata, were netted.—RicHarD Sours. 
Tue Inseor Fauna or Mipptesex.—Mr. Cockerell is quite correct in 
his statement (Entom. xxv. No. 849, p. 182) that Oxhey Lane is just in 
Hertfordshire according to the Ordnance Survey Map. The lane, however, 
extends to join the main road from Pinner to Stanmore about a mile into 
Middlesex, and those insects recorded as observed by me in the “ Preli- 
minary List of the Insect-Fauna of Middlesex” have been either seen or 
taken on the Middlesex side of the border only, where I live. I could add 
a good many species that are found just on the dividing line, notably in the 
woodland that extends along the London and North-Western Railway to the 
left going north, but such insects properly belong to Hertfordshire. About 
a fortnight ago A. euphrosyne and A. selene were flying about the bugle- 
flowers, whilst 7. tayes and H. malveé were always well represented, with 
P. geryon, S. clathrata (which I have never found in Middlesex), and other 
spring Lepidoptera. The railway bank by Oxhey Lane bridge is a capital 
hunting-ground, the bridge itself being a favourite haunt of B. perla.—H. 
RowianpD-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow-Weald, June 20, 1892, 
SOCIETIES. 
ENromoLocicaL Sociery or Lonpon.—June Ist, 1892.—Mr. Robert 
McLachlan, F.R.S., Treasurer, in the chair. ‘’he Hon. Walter Rothschild 
sent for exhibition Neptis mimetica, n.s., from Timor, mimicking Andasena 
orope, one of the Kupleeide, and Cynthia equicolor, n.s., a species remarkable 
for the similarity of the two sexes, from the same locality; also a hybrid 
between Saturnia carpini and S. pyri, and specimens ot Callimorpha 
dominula, var. romanovii, var italica, and var. donna, bred by a collector at 
Zurich; he further exhibited a very large and interesting collection of 
Rhopalocera made by Mr. W. Doherty in ‘Timor, Pura, Sumba, and other 
islands, during October and November, 1891. Col. Swinhoe remarked that 
the various species of Neptis were usually protected and imitated by other 
insects, and did not themselves mimic anything, and that the pattern of the 
Neptis in question was very common among butterflies in the ‘Timor group. 
Mr. Jenner Weir, Prof. Meldola, Mr. Trimen, and others continued the 
discussion. Mons. A. Wailly exhibited about fifty species of Australian 
Lepidoptera, mostly from Queensland, and fertile ova of Zrilocha varians, 
which are arranged in small square cells, fastened together in large 
numbers, and present an appearance quite different from the usual type of 
lepidopterous ova. Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited a series of Drepana jfalca- 
taria, halt of which had been exposed for a week or two, in March or April, 
to a temperature of about 77°, and the other half had been allowea to 
emerge at the natural out-door temperature. The latter insects were in all 
eases darker than the former, all being equally healthy. Mr. McLachlan, 
Mr. Barrett, Mr. Jenner Weir, and others took part in the discussion which 
followed. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a curious variety of the male of 
Arctia mendica, bred by the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of Armagh. Canon 
