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to ii clue of wliat the larva will be found on. So far I have found the moth 

 creeping up out of the moss at the roots of Helianthemum and nothing else. 

 The place is bare of undergrowth, I got some scores of the perfect insect; 

 some have laid eggs, which have been sent to Mr. Bankes along with some 

 plants. My next look-out was for Catoptria aspidiscana, to pin them with silver 

 pins for my friend Thurnall ; I was quite two weeks late ; nearly all worn spe- 

 cimens. Among a miscellaneous lot of species that I boxed are Phoxopteryx 

 siculaua, (EcopJioraflavifrontella, Grapholitha obtusana, Coccyx vacciniana, 

 and one fine large C. cosnwphorana, the latter a very interesting catch. 

 Ennycliia octomaculalis was jerking about. Nemeobius lucina and Argynnis 

 ciiphrosyne were enjoying themselves in the gleams of sunshine. Lyccena 

 astrarche var. salmacis was just out and in lovely condition, I took several 

 species in the woods far away from their usual habitat, such as Bactra 

 lauceolana on dry limestone. Altogether I brought home quite a thousand 

 specimens. — J. i3. Hodqkinson. 



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Entomological Society of London, — June 5th, 1895. — Lord 

 Walsingham, F,R,S,, Vice-President, in the chair. Dr. Sharp ex- 

 hibited, on behalf of Dr, G. D. Haviland, two species of Calotennes 

 from Borneo, the individuals being alive and apparently in good 

 health ; one of the two small communities (which were contained in 

 glass tubes) consisted of a few individuals of the immature sexual 

 forms and of a neoteinic queen ; this latter iiad increased somewhat in 

 size during the eight mouths it had been in Dr. Haviland' s possession, 

 but no eggs had been deposited, neither had any of the immature 

 individuals developed into winged forms. The second community 

 exhibited consisted entirely of the immature sexual forms, and this 

 community had produced numerous winged adults while it had been in 

 Dr, Havilaud's possession. Specimens were also exhibited to illustrate 

 the neoteinic forms that were produced in Borneo after a community 

 had been artificially orphaned. As regards these, Dr. Sharp expressed 

 the hope that Dr. Haviland would shortly publish the very valuable 

 observations he had made. In the case of a species of fungus Termite, 

 Dr. Haviland had found that the community had replaced a king and 

 queen by normal, not by neoteinic forms. Professor Eiley remarked 

 that in many cases it would be extremely difficult to artificially orphan 

 a nest without destroying it ; he also commented on the short time in 

 which the queen appeared to have been developed, and on the ap- 

 parently rapid development of the wing pads, which usually cannot 

 take place except after several moults ; and he expressed his opinion 

 that further information on these points was much to be desired ; he 

 corroborated the observation of Dr, Haviland with regard to the great 

 variability in the nests of different years [ov even of the same year) of 

 the number of queens, true or neoteinic ; in one nest of Entermes 

 iiiorio he found one-fourth of the inhabitants to be true kings and 

 queens, although not fully developed, Mr. McLachlan exhibited 

 examples of the female of Pyrrhowma minium, Harris, having the 

 abdomen incrusted with whitish mud through ovipositmg in a ditch 

 in which the water was nearly all dried up. He had noticed the same 



