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by Dr. St. John (Entom. xlvi. p. 314) last year, and by Mr. G. T. 
Bethune-Baker (p. 39 in your last issue) in July, 1908, we used to 
take it there frequently thirty years ‘ago, and I have heard of it 
several times since. The Derbyshire limestone seems to produce 
some pretty female examples of Lycena icarus, for I found a very 
fine race on difficult ground in the Via Gellia on June 5th, 1911, and 
the only female captured was very beautiful. Ino (Adscita) geryon 
was taken at the same time.—G. Hanson Sate; Littleover House, 
Littleover, Derby. 
SOCIETIES. 
ENntTomoboeican Society or Lonpon.— Wednesday, December 3rd, 
1913.—Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 
chair.—Mr. Walter Ormiston, of Kalupahani, Haldumille, Ceylon, 
was elected a Fellow of the Society.—Dr. G. B. Longstaff presented 
to the Society, on behalf of a number of subscribers, a copy of 
Hiibner’s ‘ Exotische Schmetterlinge,’ original edition.—Mr. G. T. 
Porritt exhibited two curious specimens of Abraxas grossulariata.— 
Miss Diana R. Wilson, who was present as a visitor, butterflies 
caught in Brazil this year, during the last week of January and the 
first week of February.—Prof. Poulton, eight examples of Hpv- 
scaphula interrupta, Lac., found in one clay cell, and eleven examples 
found in another, by Mr. C. O. Farquharson, B.Se., at Moor Planta- 
tion, near Ibadan, 8. Nigeria. He also read notes received from Mr. 
Lamborn, on the Driver Ants (Dorylus) of Southern Nigeria, and 
exhibited the material referred to.—Dr. K. Jordan, a series of species 
of the two groups of Papilios called by Haase Cosmodesmus and 
Pharmacophagus respectively —Mr. Champion, a specimen of Tho- 
rictus parciseta, Wasm., attached to the scape of the left antenna of 
a worker of an ant, Myrmecocystus viaticus, ¥.—Mr. W. C. Crawley, 
(1) Three deilated females of L. niger, L., taken Isle of Wight, July, 
1911; these, after rearing workers, fought until only one survived. 
(2) A female of Aphenogaster subterranea, Latr., taken August, 1912, 
at Yvorne with Prof. Forel, after marriage-flight, brought up two 
workers by September, 1913. (3) Six females of L. flavus, Fabr., 
taken after marriage-flight at Seaton, July 14th, 1912. They built a 
cell together and brought up workers, by June 23rd, 1913.—Mr. 
O. H. Janson, specimens of Laglasia caloptera, Bigot, one of the 
curious forms of Diptera with stalked eyes, from Dutch New Guinea. 
—Capt. E. B. Purefoy, two more specimens of Gonepteryx cleopatra 
with gynandromorphous colouring.—Mr. HE. B. Ashby, a number of 
Nearctic butterflies—Mr. W. J. Kaye, a very large series of specimens 
of Heliconius anderida, ranging into a number of forms which 
tended to become fairly definite subspecies in different geographical 
regions.—Dr. H. Hltringham gave a preliminary account of the scent 
apparatus in Amauris egialea, comparing the same with that of A. 
navius, illustrated by drawings, and microphotographs of sections of 
the brush.—The following paper was read: ‘‘ New Species of South 
