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and Aberdeen. I would be very grateful, then, if any collector would 

 let me know of anj' captures or old records he can, referring to the 

 following insects in the above-mentioned " district," viz. A. sylvanus, 

 S. Ugustri, livornica, nerii, fiiciformis, chaonia, trimacula, trepida, 

 clerasa, diUtta, octogesima, similis, salicis, confitsalis, griseola, Widens, 

 puta, lunigera, ri'pcB, obelisca, ohscura, liclienea, cc^ricleocephala, trifolii, 

 hepatica, elyvii, munda, opima, triplasia, tarsipennalis, costcsstrigalis, 

 notha, lactearia, marginepunctata, viretata, associata, albicillata, 

 hifasciata, flavofasciata, succenturiata, virgaureata, trisignaria, abrup- 

 taria, crepuscularia, clathrata, apiformis, myopaformis. I already 

 know of the Morayshire records of griseola, lunigera, and notha. — 

 D. J. Gordon ; 3, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. 



Palpares libblluloides, Linn. (Neuroptera). — I observed and 

 caught this Neuropteron frequently in the Struma Valley, but, 

 curiously enough, always on the foot-hills and never on the plain 

 itself. My first observation was early in July, 1916, when hundreds 

 of specimens of both sexes were flying above a large area of rank 

 grass at Dodolah, just outside Salonica. In 1917 my first observation 

 was in April (about the 6th), when I netted six specimens on the 

 mountain side below Kajali. The numbers in flight increased rapidly 

 until half-way through May, when they fell off. — W. H. Foulks 

 (Lieut.) ; Derby. 



Stauropus paqi Imago in December. — Owing to the continuous 

 high temperature prevailing during November and December, I found 

 a male S. fagi had emerged at some date between December 16th 

 and 18th. As it was confined in a small box development of the 

 wings was impossible, but it was perfectly normal in other respects, 

 and was quite vigorous and healthy and lived five days. It would be 

 interesting to know if other collectors have had similar experience 

 vv^ith this species. — Leonard Tatchell ; Wanstead, December 30th, 

 1918. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, October 2nd, 

 1918.— Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, in the Chair.— Dr. 

 Chapman exhibited a bred specimen of Lyccena alcon, probably the 

 first specimen that has been bred, certainly the first from larvae taken 

 in the autumn. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a specimen of the common 

 Cockroach {Blatta orientalis), taken under bark of oak in the New 

 Forest, far away from any houses, July 29th, 1918. Also a curious 

 ergatandromorph of M. stclcinodis taken on Bloxworth Heath, from 

 the collection of the late Kev. O. Pickard-Cambridge. — Mr. Hugh 

 Main exhibited the three larval skins of Dytiscus marginalis, prepared 

 for demonstration purposes. — The following paper was read, the 

 author illustrating his subject with photographs shown in the epidia- 

 scope : " Notes on Australian Sawflies, especially ' Authors' Types ' 

 and the Specimens in the British Museum of Natural History and 

 the Hope Collection in the Oxford University Museum, with Diagnostic 

 Synopses of the Genera and Species," by the Kev. F. D. Morice, M.A., 

 F.E.S. 



