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ford, and if nothing very good was taken common species were swarminc 

 both at dusk and treacle. Although I had to leave each night as early as 

 10 o'clock, no less tlian twenty-nine species turned up on treacle, including 

 three DicycJa oo (one of them a lovely clouded variety), Thyatira hatis, 

 T. derasa, Xijlophasia Juq)atica (abundant), Caradrina hlanda, Hasina tene- 

 hrosa (common), Noctna /estiva (some very nice forms), Aplecta neJnilnsa 

 (dark), and Hadena thalasshia (very worn). At dusk seven Phorodesina 

 hnjidaria were taken during a quarter of an hour on the 24th (which was 

 all the time I had for dusking that evening), and another on the 27th; 

 Anrierona pnmaria, males, were fairly common, Hemithea thymiaria and 

 Cidaria falvata abundant, and Melanthia bicolorata in such vast swarms 

 as I have never before seen. On the whole, when comparing these two 

 evenings with the two days spent at Brockenhurst three weeks later, one 

 could scarcely imagine that it was the same season. Moreover, according 

 to Mr. GuUiver, treacle had been no more successful in the New Forest 

 during the last week of June (when it was so attractive in London) than 

 1 found it in July. The question of the success and non-success of treacle 

 still seems to be far from satisfactorily settled, as the Brockenhurst evenings 

 could not possibly have been more promising from the weather point of 

 view, whilst the Chingford evenings were two of the brightest and clearest 

 we have had all the summer, and at the same time there was a great 

 quantity of "honey-dew" about on the foliage. — Russell E. Jamks ; 

 3, Mount View Boad, Finsbury Park, N., July 22nd, 1895. 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July 11th, 1895.— Mr. T. W. Hall, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Fremlin exhibited a long and variable bred series of Phorodcsma 

 sinaraydaria, Fb., all of which were set with the aid of a blowpipe; 

 also a bred series of Gcometra 2iapilionaria, L. Mr. Oldham, a Sirex 

 yiyas, L., from Wisbech, and a number of Lepidoptera taken during 

 the Society's field meeting at Oxshot, June 29th, including Euryviene 

 dolahraria, L., Macaria liturata, Clerk., and Hadena pisi, L. Mr. 

 Adkin, a yellow var. of Ematurga atomaria, L. Mr. T. W. Hall, a 

 pupa of Sesia sphegifurmis, Fb,, and a bred series of Eupitliecia 

 valerlanata, Hb. Mr. Edwards, a specimen of Papilio scsostris var. 

 xestos, from S. America. 



July 25th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Hall exhibited a long 

 variable bred series of Dianthcecia carpophaya, Bork., the larvffi having 

 boon found on Lychnis vespertiiia ; one specimen had all the usual 

 markings nearly obliterated, and gradations led to the opposite 

 extreme of a specimen with the markings much extended and 

 intensified. Mr. Eobson, a var. of Sineriyithus tilicB, L., without the 

 usual dark band across the fore wing, and an exceedingly pretty 

 suflused form of Zonosoma pendidaria, Clerk. Mr. Dennis, a bred 

 series of Cosmia a finis, L., from Horsley. Mr. Turner, a series of 

 Lycaina ceyon, Schiff., from Oxshot, showing amalgamation of spots on 

 the under sides, blue-splashed females, and one female undistinguish- 

 able on the upper side from L. astrarche. 



