146 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I spent the first week of August at Felixstowe, but did no active 

 collecting, as I was a victim to cramp most of the time. I was lucky 

 one night, however, to take Spilodes paleaUs off a lamp ; also Liparis 

 chrysorrhcea. Zyfjana JiUpendulcE were found flying in the same spot on 

 the common as the previous year, but nowhere else. Gelechia desertella 

 was common, and I found one G. populella on palings. I left Suffolk 

 to go on a holiday to Bath, but the only good things taken were Bnjo- 

 phila fjflandifera and CEcophora unitella. 



The latter end of August I removed from Suffolk to Norwich, and 

 the exigencies of work on a daily paper precluded any collecting. 

 Catocala nupta seemed to be numerous on walls, and I also saw Xanthia 

 ceraffo and Polia flavicincta. Melanthia bicolorata was taken off a 

 naturalist's window. The usual winter Geometrje were observed on 

 the street-lamps. — Claude A. Pyett ; 25, Grosvenor Road, Norwich. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — March ith, 1903. — Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. President, in the chair.— Mr. Harry 

 Eltringham, of Eastgarth, Westoe, South Shields, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. — Colonel Bingham sent for exhibition specimens 

 of Diptera and two Aculeates from Sikhim, constituting in the banding 

 of the wings and other characteristics a striking instance of mimicry. 

 The Rev. F. D. Morice drew attention to the way in which the fly imi- 

 tated with its tibia the tarsus of the bee. — Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited 

 specimens of Atomaria rhenann, Kr., taken by him out of some flood 

 rubbish found near Lancing, probably the same locality where the 

 beetle was discovered formerly by Dr. Sharp. He also exhibited a 

 Ptinus, apparently new to Britain, where it had probably been intro- 

 duced, found in a granary in Holborn in 1893. — Mr. W. J. Kaye 

 exhibited species of Lepidoptera from British Guiana, forming a 

 Miillerian Association in which all but one were day-flyiug moths, the 

 exception being an Erycinid butterfly, Esthemopsis sericina. The moths, 

 belonging to three families, included Syntomidae : Agyrta viicUia and 

 Euayra ccelestina : Hypsidae : lontola divisa Geometridae (?) : Pseiidar- 

 bessa decorata. It appears very evident from the specimens collected 

 over eighteen months in exactly the same place, that the SyntomidsB 

 in being so numerous have acted as the types, toward which the other 

 species have converged. The particular interest of the exhibit con- 

 sisted in the association being one of moths, a butterfly being the ex- 

 ception, and not one of butterflies with perhaps a single moth, which 

 latter is so frequently the case in South America. The butterfly most 

 closely resembled Ayyrta micilia, one of the Syntomidre that is perhaps 

 the most abundant of all the groups. — Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse read a 

 paper entitled "Notes on the Nests of Bees of the Genus Trigona;" 

 Mr. G. A. Rothney communicated a paper on " The Aculeate Hymeno- 

 ptera of Barrackpore, Bengal," and " Descriptions of eighteen new 

 species of Larridas and Apids from Barrackpore, by Peter Cameron ; 

 and Colonel Charles Swinhoe communicated a paper "On the Aganiidaa 

 in the British Museum, with descriptions of some new species." 



