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is slightly larger than normal, and of a unicolorous black, absolutely 
devoid of all markings; the wings are thinly scaled, as is usual with 
the female of this species. Mr. Prout has kindly given me the 
following information regarding this uncommon form of hirtaria. 
He says: ‘I find in Oberthiir’s ‘ Etudes de Lepidopterologie Com- 
parée’ there is a figure of a unicolorous black female hirtaria from 
Silesia, and there is one equally unicolorous, but not quite as extreme 
(with a brownish tinge), in the British Museum collection from 
England. It is called by Oberthiir ab. fwmaria, Haw, and is men- 
tioned by that name in one or two other books.” I might add that 
the whole of the insect—body, legs, and antennsze—is jet black.— 
B. 8. Winu1am; 77, Durham Road, E. Finchley, N. 
HIBERNATION (?) OF PyYRAMEIS ATALANTA.—In view of Mr. 
Corbet’s note in your last issue (p. 151), it may be of interest to record 
that I saw and watched for some time a worn P. atalanta flitting about 
in the flower garden here on March 23rd.—-E. F. Srupp; Oxton, 
Exeter. 
HucHLOE CARDAMINES Two Years In Pupa.—On October 20th 
last (Hntom. xlvi. p. 317) I brought to your notice a very late 
emergence of H. cardamines. I have now the pleasure to report an 
instance of a butterfly, a female, from the same brood of larve 
remaining in the pupal state for two winters. These larve were 
given me by my friend, the Rey. Gilbert H. Raynor, on June 20th, 
1912, and the insect referred to emerged yesterday morning, the 
20th inst—B. W. Neave; Lyndhurst, 95, Queen’s Road, Browns- 
wood Park, N., May 21st, 1914. 
SOCIETIES. 
EntTomonoaicaL Society or Lonpon.— Wednesday, April 1st, 
1914.—Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 
chair.—Mrs. Maria Ernestina Walsh, Soekaboemi, Java; Messrs. 
J. P. Ramakrishna Aiyar, B.A., F.Z.8., The Agricultural College, 
Coimbatore, South India; Hugéne Bendefitter, 11, Rue St. Jacques, 
Le Mans, France; Rev. Prebendary Edward Grose Hodge, The 
Vicarage, Paddington; A. J. T. Janse, 1st Street, Gezina, Pretoria, 
South Africa; Charles Nicholson, 35, The Avenue, Hale End, Ching- 
ford, N.E.; Frederic de la Mare Norris, B.Sc., The Agricultural 
Department, Kuala Lumpur, Malay States, were elected Fellows of 
the Society.—Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited some specimens of the 
genus Curetis from the Tring Museum, to illustrate a point in 
mimicry, and read notes upon them.—Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of 
Pierine from Western China, with drawings of their scent-scales, and 
remarked on them.—Mr. O. E. Janson, both sexes of a new Papilio 
belonging to the gambrisius group and apparently most nearly allied 
to P. ormenus, Guér., also the rare Papilio gabrielis, Roths., both 
recently received from the Admiralty Islands.—Mr. Donisthorpe, a 
small nest of the ant Cremastogaster schenki, Forel, from Madagascar, 
