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meeting several of the species named, A'', aurarjo particularly, in open 

 country, no woods being near ; but I think their continued existence 

 in the locality is due to the fact that many of the liedgerows liere- 

 abouts contain a varied growth of maple, oak, ash, and other forest 

 trees and bushes, probably descendants of the original woodlands of 

 the district ; these hedgerows doubtless saved A', aurayo and many 

 other species from extinction when the woods were destroyed. 



Although collecting in Essex, chiefly in the Epping Forest district, 

 for the last twenty-five years, I have found a number of species here 

 which I had not met with before in the county, and hope, with better 

 weather during the coming season, to considerably extend the list. 



In concluding these brief notes, I should like to express my great 

 indebtedness to Mr. Whittle, of Southend, wlio has most kindly given 

 me the benefit of his unrivalled knowledge of this locality. — G. Harold 

 Conquest; "The Moorings," Westcliff-on-Sea, March 26th, 1904. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March IQth, 

 1904.— Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Miss M. Maude Alderson, of Worksop, Notts ; the Hon. 

 Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman, R.N., of Shifnal, Salop, and 

 H.M.S. ' Clio,' Australian Station ; Mr. W. A. Luff, of La Chaumiere, 

 Brock Road, Guernsey; Mr. Frank S. Mumford, of 10, Mouutfield 

 Gardens, Tunbridge Wells ; Mr. Edward Harris, of 2, Chardraore 

 Road, Upper Clapton, N.E. ; Mr. Thomas Frederick Furnival, of 

 Bushey. Heath and Bishopstone, Sussex; and Mr. Geoffrey Mead- Waldo, 

 of Edenbridge, Kent, and Magdalen College, Oxford, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. — Mr. G. T. Porritt exiiibited a pair of Mschna 

 isosceles, taken by him in the Norfolk Broads last summer. The species 

 had been regarded as almost lost to the British list for many years. — 

 Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited Phora formicarum, Verr., which is parasitic 

 on the ant Lasius niger, obtained by sweeping the herbage in a paddock 

 at Newmarket. Prof. Westwood, as long ago as 1840 (Intro. Mod. 

 Classification Ins.) recorded having " repeatedly observed on disturbing 

 the nest of the common brown garden ant a very minute species of 

 Phora hovering over and flying upon the ants." This species has not 

 been found or recognized by Continental dipterologists. He also 

 exhibited Phora sp. found in a garden at Newmarket, running about at 

 the entrance to a nest of a species of Bombus. Specimens received 

 from Dr. Sharp, labelled " from Bombus nests," were also the same 

 species. — Commander J. J. Walker exhibited a series of Buprestidaa 

 from Sydney, N.S.W., and the adjoining district (including the nearest 

 part of the Blue Mountains), comprising about a hundred and twenty 

 species, of which seventy belonged to the genus Sti;/modera. Also a 

 dried specimen of An;/nphora cordifoUa, Cav., a small tree of the 

 natural order Myrtaceae, the flowers of which are the great attraction 

 in New South Wales for the Buprestidfe, as well as for many other 

 Coleoptera ; specimens of the " Bugong " moth, Agrotis spina, Guenee, 

 from Jervis Bay, N.S.W, (referred to at the previous meeting) ; and 



