102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
was growing a luxuriant crop of M. gale. A Tortrix larva was common 
on this, which agreed, so far as I could see, with those of Peronea 
maccana, which I had been taking a few weeks before at Camghouran, 
and I put it down to be that species, but to make sure took away 
one larva, from which, to my surprise, emerged a specimen of L. polt- 
tana.—W. EK. SHELDON. 
PERONEA OCRISTANA, Errata.—In my paper on this species, on 
p. 16 of the present volume of this magazine, I say that ab. 
sequana, Curtis, requires eliminating from the list in favour of ab. 
combustana, Duponchel. This is an error, My friend, Mr. J. H. 
Durrant, points out to me that Duponchel did not give the name 
combustana, but adopted it from Hubner, who used it for a form of 
hastiana, Duponchel wrongly applying it to a form of another 
species, cristana. Curtis’s name of sequana should therefore stand, 
and ab. combustana, Duponchel, must fall as a synonym of it. On 
p- 38 I find that ab. lchenana, Curtis, is omitted; it, of course, 
should appear. I make its position to be after ab. sub-chantana, 
Clark, in Group 2.—W. E. SHrepon. 
SOCIETIES. 
THe Soutu Lonpon Enromonogican AND Natura History 
Socrety.— December 9th.—The President in the Chair.—Mr.J.J.Joicey, 
¥.E.S., The Hill, Witley; Mr. G. Talbot, F.E.S., The Hill Museum, 
Witley ; Mr. A. J. Wightman, 35, Talbot Terrace, Lewis; and Mr. L. 
Ford, Park Hill, Bexley, were elected members. — Mr. Sperring 
exhibited a Cassid, Aspidomorpha, sp., from Central Uganda.—Mr. 
Main made a series of remarks on the keeping of ants in artificial 
formicaria.—Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone, further series of dwarf Agriades 
coridon from Surrey, and'a second brood of Huphyia picata.—Mr. 
Bowman, aberrations of Polyommatus icarus from Folkestone.—Mr. 
B. 8. Williams, Bithys querctis ab. major from Cornwall and an 
asymmetrical Cenonympha pamphilus.—Mr. Goodman, a pupa of 
Hyles ewphorbie from a Courmayeur larva.—Mr. K. G. Blair, ab. 
parvipuncta of Rumicia phli@as.—Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Ptycho- 
poda dimidiata (scutulata) with their cocoons, and read notes on the 
pupation, showing the natural position to be among rubbish on or 
near the surface of the ground.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a small collection 
of butterflies from W. Java.—Mr. Adkin, the Society’s delegate to 
the Conference of the British Association, read a short report of the 
meeting. 
January 13th, 1921.—Mr. K. G. Blair, B.Sc., President, in the 
Chair.—Lord Rothschild, of Tring, and Mr. F. W. Enefer, of 
2, Blackheath Vale, were elected members.—Mr. R. Adkin exhibited 
a Margarodes unionalis taken near Abbot’s Wood, Sussex, and gave 
notes on the occurrence of this interesting migrant.—Mr. Blenkarn, 
local species of Coleoptera, including Henoticus germanicus, Craven 
House, Strand, Necrophorus interruptus, Box Hill, Cassida hemi- 
spherica, Chiswick, four species of Hydroporus from Coatbridge, ete. 
—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a box of butterflies sent to Mr. Sperring by 
our member Mr. G. B. Pearson from California, including fine series 
of the spring gen. galactinus of Cenonympha californica, of the dark 
