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Spilosoma lubricipeda var. fasciata, Tiujii-ell. — Oii Mav Oili, 1893, 

 I captured here, on a gas-lamp, a specimen of this variety. It agrees 

 exactly with the figure in Entom, xxvii. 207, except that the transverse 

 fascia on the secondaries is lacking. Mr. E. E. Studd, to whom 1 showed 

 the specimen, says that it is identical with specimens of this variety which 

 he had received from Mr. Tugwell. This capture seems to me worthy of 

 record, since, so far as I know, all previous specimens of this variety have 

 been taken in Lincolnshire and the adjacent counties, and not in the south 

 of England. — T. B. Fletcher; 78, Tliornlaw Road, West Norwood, S.E. 



Aepophilus bonnaikii. — While hunting on the shore, about half tide, 

 at Mount Batten, in front of the coast-guard station, on the 28th instant, 

 Mr. J. H. Keys and myself were rewarded by the capture of a mature 

 specimen oi Aepophilus honnairii, and twenty A'epus, the majority of which 

 were A. rohinii. I may add that subsequently Mr. Keys took several 

 Aepophilus honnairii in the same locality, some mature, the majority imma- 

 ture. — G, C. Bignell; Stonehouse, April '29th, 1893. 



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Entomological Society of London. — March 20th, 1895. — Professor 

 Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair, Mr. Claude Morley, 

 of London Road, Ipswich ; Mr. Herbert E. Page, of 14, Nettleton 

 Road, New Cross, S.E. ; Mr. W. W. Smith, of Ashburton, Canterbury, 

 New Zealand ; and Mr. Henry Tunaley, of 30, Fairmont Road, 

 Brixton Hill, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. H. 

 St. John Douisthorpe exliibited a living female of Lhjtiscus mar(jinaUs 

 with elytra resembling those of the male insect. Dr. Sharp said he 

 had seen this form before, but that it was very rare in this country, 

 though abundant in some parts of the paltearctic region. Professor 

 Stewart asked if the genitalia had been examined. Mr, Champion 

 stated that Mr, J, J, ^Valker had collected several females of an allied 

 species (D. circumjicxus) at Gibraltar with elytra resembling those of 

 the male. Dr. Sharp exhibited specimens of Brenthus anchorayo, from 

 Mexico, showing extreme variation in size. He remarked that the 

 males varied from lOJ mill, in length to 51 mill. ; the female from 

 9i mill, to 27 mill. In the male the width varied from 1^ mill, to 

 i mill. The length therefore varied from about 5 to 1, and the width 

 from 3 to 1 in the male. Mr. Blandford commented on the difficulty 

 of mountmg minute Lepidoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, &c., and 

 exhibited samples of strips of material which he had found most 

 suitable for the purpose of staging minute insects. He said his 

 attention had been called to. this method of mounting by the receipt 

 of specimens from Dr. Eric, of Prague. On examination of the 

 material he had. found it to be a fungus, Fohjporns betulinus. He 

 stated that Lord Walsiugham had expressed his satisfaction with tiiis 

 material, and had sent him specimens, similarly mounted, from 

 Zeller's collection. Mr. McLachlan remarked that he thought the 

 material exhibited preferable to artichoke pith, which had been used 

 for a similar puipose, Mr. Goss exhibited a species of a Mantid, 

 Pseudocreobotra ivahlberyi, Stal, received from Captain Montgomery, 



