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7th, Limnophilus xanthodes in a juniper-bush on the top of the 
downs at Wendover; September, Limnophilus affinis, L. marmoratus 
and L. lunatus, near Lewes, Sussex. EpHemMERopTERA.—May 14th, 
Ephemera danica, Clocon dipterum, Centrophilium luteolum and 
Leptophlebia helvipes at Staplefield, Sussex; May 21st, Siphlurus 
armatus, nymphs at Stanmore Common from which imagines 
emerged next day and days following (also Leptophlebia helvipes) ; 
May 22nd, Ephemera vulgata, H. danica and Habrophlebia fusca 
from canal at Uxbridge.—W. J. Lucas; Kingston-on-Thames. 
CRICKETS AND Reruse Dumps.—During the present year two 
cases have been recorded of Gryllus domesticus occurring in the open 
in association with refuse dumps (‘ Entom.,’ liv, p. 127; ‘ Ent. Mo. 
. Mag.,’ lvii, p. 185). These dumps were in the neighbourhood of 
\ Hatfield and Huddersfield respectively, and it is now possible to add 
a third instance of the same kind met with in Middlesex. Early in 
August one of my sisters, Mrs. G. J. Ashby, told me that she had 
both heard and seen a number of common house crickets on and 
about an extensive rubbish-heap near West Drayton, and on sub- 
sequent occasions she collected several specimens for me. I under- 
stand that the refuse composing the rubbish-heap is brought from 
houses in the west of London, and that some of the materials are 
destroyed by burning. I do not know when this colony of crickets 
was first established, but in any case the hot weather of the present 
year would help them to maintain an outdoor life, and the artificial 
heat engendered by burning would afford further assistance in the 
same direction.—HERBERT Campion; 58, Ranelagh Road, Ealing, 
W. 5, September 12th, 1921. 
SOCIETIES. 
Tue SoutH Lonpon Enromonoaicat Socrery.—Jily 14th, 1921.— 
The President in the Chair.—Mr. G. 8. Baker, of West Brompton, 
was elected a member.—There was a short discussion on Xanthorhoé 
(Cidaria) rivata and X. (C.) alternata (sociata), introduced by Mr. 
Hy. J. Turner, who dealt at length with the nomenclature and 
differentiation and briefly with the variation.—Mr. A. A.W. Buckstone 
exhibited series from several localities and referred to a later and 
darker form of X. alternata (sociata).—Myr. Mera, series of both 
species, and referred to the variation occurring in Britain, dealing 
especially with the Isle of Lewis dark race of the latter species.— 
Mr. Enefer read a note on his exhibit of Hylobius abietis, a beetle 
recently becoming abundant in the south of England.—Mr. H. Moore, 
an ant-lion he had bred from the larva given him by Mr. Main from 
South France, and also an aberration of Anosza berenice from 
Florida.—Mr. Priske, the unusual winged form of the water Hemi- 
pteron Velia currens—Mr. Blair, the fire-fly, Phengodes laticollis, 
from Washington, and read notes on its life-history—Mr. Turner, 
