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railway), Venilia maculata, Boarmia consortaria (on fir-trunks), Te- 

 jihrosia punctularia, Acidalia remutaria (including some nice forms), 

 Cabera pusaria, C. exanthemata, Bapta temerata, Macaria liturata, La- 

 rentia pectinitaria, Melanthia ocellata, Pyrausta ostrinalis, Hydrocampa 

 nympheata, Botys pandalis'?, Harpella yeojfrella, Scoparia amhigualis, and 

 S. diibitalis (on trunks). 



Dusking was not very successful, and the only additional species 

 taken in this way were : — Phloyophora meticulosa, Epione advennria, 

 Rumia cratgcEata, lodis lactearia, Bapta taininata, Eupithecia venosata, 

 E. nanata, E. vulgata, Hypsipetes ruberata (two), Melanippe sociata, M. 

 fluctuata, Coremia ferruyata, C. unidentaria, Cidaria corylata, C. trun- 

 cata, and Pardia tripunctana. 



May 31st we spent in the company of Mr. E. Morris, of Brocken- 

 hurst, and devoted most of the day to the " beehawks," of which we 

 secured a few of both species. On the same day we saw one or two 

 Nemeobius lucina, and found a male Smerinthus oceUatus at rest. Single 

 specimens of NoJa confusalis, Dasychira pudibunda, Ephyra pendularia, 

 and two Erastria fuscula were also taken during our visit. Larvae 

 appeared to be scarce, and we did very little beating. We, however, 

 found two batches of Tczniocampa mmiosa larvae, and kept about fifty 

 each. 



With regard to the Odonata, Calopteryx virgo was common by nearly 

 every stream, and several of the commoner species were well out, such 

 as Platetrum depression, Agrion puella, and Pyrrhosoma nymphula. 

 Libelhda quadrimaculata and Orthetrnm ccErulesceiis also fell to our nets ; 

 and we were very pleased to secure Anax imperator — a splendid insect ! 

 Gomphus vitlgatissimus was just emerging at the Blackwater, and 

 several empty pupa skins were found on the reeds by the water's edge, 

 while two of the imagines were discovered drying their wings above 

 them. This insect was also seen hawking up and down the stream 

 higher up, but only one specimen was secured. On the same patch of 

 rushes pupa- skins of Calopteryx riryo were also found. 



Coleoptera were not seriously worked, but we brought home, 

 amongst others, Siljjha atrata, Cetonia aurata, Melolontha vulgaris, 

 Necrophorus mortuorum, RJiayium bifasciatum, Donacia linearis ?, Crypto- 

 cephalus aureolus, and Lina popidi. — Philip J. Bakraud and Kenneth 

 G. Blair. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological SociETy of London. — June Srd, 1903. — Professor 

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

 Champion exhibited numerous specimens of Coccinella distincta, taken 

 in the pine woods of Woking. They were found, as usual, running 

 about the ground in company with Formica rnfa, and were perhaps 

 wanderers from some other locality, Mr. Donisthorpe said the species 

 was still common at Weybridge in the nests of Formica rnfa, and that 

 he had observed it also at Bexhill, while Mr. Chitty noted its former 

 occurrence in Blean Woods in great numbers. The history of the 

 larvae, he said, had not been worked out. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe 



