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insects in relation to weather conditions. A copy of the diagram 

 can he seen at the Society's Library. — Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter said 

 that since many naturahsts believe that birds do not eat butterflies 

 no case of such an occurrence should be left unrecorded ; on February 

 15th of this year, about mid-day, he saw a male Brimstone Butterfly 

 fly through the garden at Oxford, and three sparrows that were on 

 the ground leapt into the air, and, fluttering clumsily, attempted to 

 catch it ; the butterfly easily evaded the birds. — Mr. H. Main ex- 

 hibited lantern-slides illustrating the life-history of the Beetles 

 Cojjris lunaris, OnthoplKujus vacca, and NecrojiJiorus humator. — The 

 following papers were read ; " A Contribution to our Knowledge of 

 the Life-history of the Stick Insect, Carausius morosus, Br.," by 

 George Talbot, F.E.S ; " A Eecord of Insect Migration in Tropical 

 America," by C. B. Williams, M.A., F.E.S; "The Geographical 

 Factor in Mimicry," by F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., etc.— G. C. 

 Wheelee, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entoriological and Natural History 

 Society.— .4p-i/. 22ml, 1920.— Mr. K. G. Blair, B.Sc, F.E.S., Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. — Mr. S. Edwards exhibited Tcnoris honrathi from 

 Java and T. selene from N. Guinea, Dijnastor napoleon from S. 

 America, and several species of Opsiphanes. — Mr. Newman, tlie jDale 

 Cheltenham form of Gonodontis hidentatci, unusually large Tcplirosia 

 luridata, curiously radiated forms of 1\ bistortata, and varied series of 

 Hydriomena iiupluviata, H. furcata, etc. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a copy 

 of Moufet's ' Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium, Theatrum,' 

 1634, and numerous species of the genus Plusia. — Mr. B. S. Williams, 

 BiC7nicia phlceas, heavily spotted, dusky, with pear-shaped spots, ab. 

 Kochi, with dark nervures with wide borders, etc., all from Finchley 

 in 1911 chiefly— a hot season. — Capt. Crocker, a collection of Lepi- 

 doptera representative of what he had met with in the battle-fields of 

 N.W. France chiefly in 1919, including Issoria lathonia, Mclitcea 

 cinxia from a very wet marsh, Noixlmannia ilicis, Colias hyale, etc. 

 Among the moths were Aglaia tau, Lymantria dispar, Nolodonta 

 tritophus, Scioptcroii tahamformis, bred from poplar stumps, Senta 

 viantivia in great variety, etc. — A'arious notes on the season were 

 communicated. 



May 13th, 1920.— The President in the Chair.— Exliibition of orders 

 other than Lepidoptera. — Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a collection of 

 exotic Coleoptera and Orfehoptera. — Mr. S. R. Ashby, British ground- 

 beetles, Lamellicornes, Buprestids, Elaterids and many Weevils from 

 his collection. — Mr. Barnett, part of a gate-post excavated by a leaf- 

 cutter bee, one cavity containing fifteen cells ; an exceptionally 

 brilliantly marked young viper ; and the body of a large lizard taken 

 from the stomach of another viper. — Mr." Cocks, Coleoptera charac- 

 teristic of the Wellington College area, including the fire-beetle il/e/a?io- 

 phila acuminata, which was quite abundant there. — Mr. H. Moore, 

 many species of Orthoptera collected by Mr. Grosvenor near Banga- 

 lore, India, and read notes on the exhibit. — Mr. West, four drawers 

 of his collection of British Hemiptera. — Mr. Step, the weevil, Bali- 

 ninus nucmn, from Wimbledon. — Mr. H. W. Andrews, many species 

 of British Diptera showing wing-pattern and coloration, and read 



