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marauders at work. They made no attempt to enter the hive, but 

 hovered above it and swooped down on the ahghting board to carry 

 off honey-laden worker-bees. The head was at once bitten off and 

 the rest of the bee carried to a neighbouring" plum tree and devoured 

 at leisure. Under one hive we found quite a little pile of bee's heads. 

 The nest was not difficult to secure, the hornets — 200 in number — 

 being rapidly overcome by a few pieces of potassium cyanide in a 

 bucket held over it. It is a specimen of unusual beauty. — C. 

 Mellows ; Bishop's Stortford College. 



The Druce Collection of Li'c^nid^ and Hesperiid.e. — This 

 well-known and important collection has recently come into the 

 possession of Mr. J. J. Joicey and is now at the Hill Museum, Witley. 

 This collection was made by Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, who is well 

 known as one of our authorities on the Lycienidae and Hesperiidye. 

 A great many types of species described by Mr. Druce as well as 

 many of the types of Semper are contained in the collection. Ento- 

 mologists desirous of comparing any specimens in this collection are 

 invited to write to the Curator, The Hill Museum, Witley, Surrey. 



Erratum. — Page 201, line 5, for " hind wing " read " hind 

 margin." 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— /wZ?/ 10th, 1919.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chair. — Mr. Moore exhibited Pyrameis atalanta from Dunedin, 

 Florida. — Mr. Sperring, a series of suffused specimens of Brenthis 

 euphrosyne from Lincolnshire, a bred series of Mimas tilia, including 

 ab. centripuncta, ab. suffusa, and other forms from Blackheath. — Mr. 

 Barnett, a large locust sent from Gibraltar alive. — Mr. Coppard, 

 several of the larger British sawfiies. — Mr. B. S. Williams, aberra- 

 tions of Pieris rapcB. — Mr. Humphries, larvte of Limantria dispar 

 from Holland, larvae of the Solomon-seal sawfly and aberrations of 

 Aglais urticce and Vanessa io. — Dr. Kobertson, short series of New 

 Forest "pugs," Eupithecia, and a fine series of Cleura glabraria bred 

 from New Forest larvae, including one with a minimum of marking 

 bred from a perfectly black larva. — Mr. Edwards, Papilio species 

 from South America of the Ascanius group. — Eemarks were made on 

 the scarcity of Butterflies this season. 



July 24:th. — Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — Mr. Sperring exhibited aberrations of (1) Brenthis euphrosyne 

 with spots coalesced to form solid lines ; (2) Pararge cegeria, under- 

 side with primrose markings and extended central blotch, another 

 very dark suti'used underside ; (3) Amorpha populi, very dark uni- 

 colorous specimen, and a series with wide aberration in banding and 

 in colour. — Mr. West, the beetles Ontliophagu's taunts from Malta and 

 Gibraltar and 0. nutans from Epping Forest. — Mr. Main, living 

 glow-worms from Delamere and the Isle of Wight, the former only 

 half the size of the latter. — Mr. Ash, a Sirex gigas taken in the 

 Strand. — Mr. Edwards, species of Papilio from South America of the 

 protesilaus section. — Mr. Carr, pupa cases of Thecla lo-alhum, in situ 

 on the undersides of the leaves of wych elm. 



