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Scott having called my attention to it) a specimen of the house-cricket 

 {Grylliis do)nesticHs) which had malformed maxillaiy palpi, that on 

 the rij^ht having the distal segment douhlo, while the left one had the 

 same segment hollow at the end. The specimen, a female, was taken 

 in a manure-heap at Kew on September 5th, 1917. There is an idea 

 prevalent that the house-cricket is becoming less coimnon. Have 

 any of our readers noticed this ? — W. J. Lucas, 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — January 8th, 1920. — Mr. S. Edwards, F.L.S., President, 

 in the Chair.— Messrs. T. H. Grosvenor, of Eedhill, F. W. Cocks, of 

 Beading, O. R. Goodman and A. de B. Goodman, of Goswell Eoad, 

 PL L. Gauntlett, of Putney, R. Swift and H. Garrett, of Bexley, were 

 elected members. — Mr. Lister exhibited his local races of Plebeius 

 cegcn and gave an account of his observations on the mosses of 

 Witherslack, where the race masscyi is the dominant form. — Local 

 series and special forms of the same species were exhibited by 

 Messrs. Buxton, Mera, Newman, Sperring, B. S. Williams, A. E. 

 Tonge and Swift. A discussion ensued. The problem was. What 

 are the causes which produce iheviasseyiiovm and make it dominant 

 in the small area at Witherslack? — -A further considerable number of 

 species from the Digby collection of Tinea about to be placed in the 

 Society's cabinet were exhibited. — Mr. Tonge, an underside of 

 Ruralis betulcB\with a curious perfect circle beside the normal narrow 

 silvery band. — Mr. Mooi'e, the very rare Painlio nohilis from E. 

 Africa. — Mr. Dunster, the cranium of a skate. — Mr. Bunnett read 

 notes on, and showed photographs of, the act of pupation in the 

 Nymphalidce. — Hy. J. Turner, lion. Editor of Proceedings. 



S.W. Yorkshire Entomological Society. — The eighteenth 

 annual general meeting of this Society was held at Shellev on 

 January lOtli, 1920, Mr. B. Morley, President, in the Chair.— The 

 President and otlier officers were re-elected. The following new 

 members were elected; Dr. W. J. Fordham, F.E.S., Sheffield; 

 Messrs. F. Hooper, Middlestown ; A. H. Lodge, Normanton ; G. T. 

 Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S., Hudderslield ; Ashley Smith, Elland ; and 

 H. Spencer, Elland. — Among the exhibits were : Mr. Morley : Long 

 and varied series of Hybernia defoliaria and H. aiirantiaria ; interest- 

 ing series of locally taken Acalla variegana, Tortrix forskaleana, T. 

 comvayana, and local specimens of Olethreutes salicella and Gypsonoma 

 neglectana. — Mr. T. H. Fisher : Second-brood specimens of Arctia 

 caja, variations of Chrysophanus jMceas, local specimens of Incurvaria 

 tenuicornis, Gelechia longicornis, C. scalella and Cerostorna sequella. — 

 Mr. J. Hooper : Dark forms of Cosmia affinis and variations of 

 Hybernia leucophcearia -and other Hybernids. — Mr. D. H. Harrison : 

 a living Vespa viilgaris $ taken in the open early in January. — Dr. 

 H. D. Smart : A few locally taken insects of orders other than 

 Lepidoptera, including the rare Dipteron, Xylophagus ater, Chiron- 

 omus dorsalis, C. dispar, C. plumosiis and Tanypus varius, the last 

 four species being new to the county. — H. D. S. 



