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species does not seem to have been reared from Ai'achnida since 

 Brischke first bred it from Ejjciiu diademata in Germany about 

 1870.— Claude Morley ; Monks Soham, Suffolk. 



' x\nnals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology.' Liverpool. 

 Vol. xiii, Nos. 1 and 2, May 12th, 1919, and July 31st, 1919.— The 

 former contains one paper of direct interest to entomologists — " On 

 the Genital Armature of the Female Tsetse-fiies {Glossma)," by 

 A. M. Evans, M.Sc. In all seventeen species are referred to, and 

 the paper is illustrated by eighteen excellent figures. — W. J. L. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— November 13th, 1919.— Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. — The decease of Mr. W. J. Ashdown (1895) was 

 announced. — On behalf of the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, a series of 

 larval cases of various species of British Psychides were presented 

 to the Society's collections. — Series of Noctua xanthogrwpha were 

 exhibited by Messrs. R. Adkin, A. E. Tonge, B. S. WilHams, 

 Hy. J. Turner, etc., and a discussion took place. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 gave a list of the named forms with short descriptions, and 

 mentioned the characters which were available for variation as 

 the ground, the stigmata, the transverse markings and the scale 

 textures. Several members remarked on the extremely large 

 numbers of this species which came to sugar. — Mr. Newman, a 

 very dark-banded large form of Cirrliadia xerampeUna from Sligo 

 and males of Ennomos angularia from Regent's Park, with con- 

 siderable contrast between the light central band and the dark 

 outer-marginal area. 



November 27th, 1919. — The President in the Chair. — Annual 

 Exhibition. — Mr. S. G. Castle-Russell exhibited aberrations of the 

 following British Lepidoptera : Dryas paphia, rayed and suffused, 

 varied valesina forms, intermediate, bleached, blue shade below, etc. ; 

 Limenitis sibilla ab. nigrina underside ; yellow-tipped Euchloc carda- 

 rniiies ; Brenthis euphrosyne rayed, cream-coloured, etc. ; d^nnonympha 

 pamphilus, a very pale series ; Aphantopus hyperanthus, a long series 

 of bred ab. lanceolata ; C. tiphon, long series of aberrations, pale, ab. 

 lanceolata ; Gelastrina argiolus, a perfect gynandromorph and colour 

 forms ; Agriades coridon, a perfect gynandromorph, ab. syngrapha, 

 striata, ab. obsoteta, etc. ; Plebeius agon, eighty aberrations, ab. 

 striata, ab. obsoleta, etc., and forty females with one wing shot 

 with male blue coloration and the smaller; all taken or bred in the 

 last two or three seasons. — Mr. T. H. Grosvenor, a pair of Attacus 

 edwardsi from the Khasia Hills and a large number of Scorpions 

 taken in the Punjab, N.W. Provinces, etc. — Mr. B. S. Williams, a 

 series of Lomaspilis marginata from Finchley showing an extreme 

 range of variations. — Mr. E. E. Green, (1) Papilio bianor, taken at 

 Camberley ; (2) a series of Parascotia fuliginaria, taken at light at 



