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worthy, as the insect appears to be ahnost exclusively a south 

 county and sea-board species. Barrett speaks of a doubtful specimen, 

 said to be taken near Silloth, in Cumberland. South says that " odd 

 specimens have been reported from Cheshire and. Cumberland." — 

 H. D. Ford ; Thursby Vicarage, Carlisle. 



Hesperia malvjE in Derbyshire. — On May 30th, in a meadow 

 adjoining a small spinney near Repton, I took a specimen of ff. 

 malvcB in fine condition, and four days later another in the same spot. 

 The species liad not previously been recorded for Derbyshire, and is, 

 I believe, in general very scarce and local in the Midlands. It seems 

 strange that it should have so long escaped notice in the very centre 

 of a district that has been regularly and thoroughly worked for many 

 years by a long series of collectors. The locality, in which Potentilla 

 is abundant, is an ideal spot for the species, but I have myself 

 frequented it for fifteen years without seeing the butterfly there 

 before. — H. C. Hayward, F.E.S. ; Repton, Derby. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — May 8th, 1919. — Annual Exhibition of " Other 

 Orders." — Mr. Stanley Edwards, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the 

 Chair.— Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod, F.E.S., of Alberta, was elected a 

 member. Mr. Frisby exhibited (1) Vespa dori/lloides, an Eastern 

 species nocturnal in flight, and (2) Polyrhachis striata, an ant armed 

 with spines, from India. ^ — Mr. Ashdown, a large number of Diptera 

 set to show the wing mai'kings, and pointed out that the pattern 

 frequently showed no connection with the lines of venation. He 

 also showed Cassida nohilis, from Oxshott. — Mr. R. Adkin, an original 

 edition of ' The Herbal or General History of Plants,' by John 

 Gerarde, 1597. — Dr. Chapman, living bred specimens of (1) the 

 Solomon Seal Sawfly, Phymatocera aterrima; and (2) the Apple- 

 boring Sawfly, Hoplocampa testudinea ; the former gnaws its cocoon 

 to escape, the latter cuts off a lid. — Mr. Dods, the " false scorpion," 

 CheUfer canceroides, found among books in a warehouse.— Mr. South, 

 various species of Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Hymenoptera 

 and Diptera taken by him in the New Forest during 1914-18 in June. 

 — Mr. S. Edv?ards, numerous large species of exotic Coleoptera, 

 Orthoptera, Bees, and Pseudo-scorpions. — Mr. L. A. Box, several 

 species of Hymenoptera, including a specimen of Rhyssia persuasoria, 

 the largest British Ichneumon, from Surrey.- — Mr. H. Moore, several 

 species of exotic centipedes from Burmah and Polydesmus cingulata 

 taken in Sicily by the late Piatt Barrett. — Mr. B. Adkin, oak branches 

 showing the ravages of the beetle Scolytus intricatus. — Mr. Leeds, 

 JEschnacyanea, taken at Letchworth on April 27th, 1919. — Mr. West, 

 four drawers of Hemiptera, and also the Hymenoptera Osmia 

 xanthomelas from Darenth, Andrena fulva from Box Hill, Eucera 

 longicornis from Byfleet, and several Chrysididce. — Mr. Turner, some 

 exotic Phasmids and Mantids. — Mr. Bunnett, a queen bee with 

 workers for comparison. — Mr. Tonge, the predaceous Diptera Asilus 

 crahroniformis from Cornwall, and the bee, Anthrophora acervoruvi, 

 from Deal. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



