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insect found in Northern Italy? It would interest me very much to 
know. I broke my journey at Verona, where Papilio podalirius 
hovered lazily over the flowers in the Piazza Independenza. This 
insect, together with P. machaon, was quite common at Lugano on 
May 2nd, selecting the very top of Monte San Salvatore as its chief 
playground. At this same elevation were EH. cardamines, P. megera 
and Cupido minimus, also a large Argynnis which I failed either to. 
catch or identify. On the lower slopes of the mountain P. napi, 
P. brassice, P. rape, E. cardamines, L. sinapis, C. ninimus, P. icarus, 
Chrysophanus dorilis var. subalpina and V. io were common, with an 
occasional Melitea athalha, M. aurinia (?), Argynnis euphrosyne, worn 
P. megera and P. egeria (the females of this species with the light 
spots enormous), and of course P. podalirius. On my homeward 
journey I saw nothing of interest except Colias hyale near Lucerne. 
—Joun B. Hicks; Stoneleigh, Elmfield Road, Bromley, Kent, 
June 16th, 1914. 
[There is no authentic record, I believe, of the occurrence of 
C. myrmidone in Italy, but it has been reported from Carinthia, and 
its area of distribution over 8.-E. Hungary is wide.—H. R.-B.] 
SOCIETIES. 
THe South Lonpon EntomonocicaAL AND Natura History 
Socrety.—May 14th, 1914.—Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., F.E.S., Presi- 
dent, in the chair.—Mr. B. 8. Williams, on ‘‘ The Thysanoptera,” and 
showed lantern-slides and specimens under the microscope in illus- 
tration.—Mr. Hocking exhibited branches of the common furze from 
Danbury Common, which had been covered by a dirty white web 
and killed by an attack of countless numbers of Tetranychus linteanus, 
an extremely small mite which congregated in reddish brown dust 
like patches. Mr. Step had seen a similar attack of a mite on lime 
at. Mickleham.—Mr. B. Adkin, aberrations of Colias edusa, including 
a male with very pale marginal bands one half the usual size, and a 
yellowish form of the var. helice. 
May 28th.—The President in the chair.—Mr. Buckstone, one 
male and three female hybrids of the cross Nyssia zonaria male and 
Apocheima hispidaria female. The larve were very like those of the 
latter species and were constitutionally weak, only four imagines 
resulting from some three hundred fertile ova.—Mr. West (Green- 
wich), a specimen of the extremely rare Hemipteron Pygolampis 
bidentata, taken by him in the New Forest in May. Only one speci- 
men had previously been captured in Britain—Mr. Newman, a 
living pupa of Strymon prunt, which closely resembles bird’s excre- 
ment.—Mr. Gahan, examples of a mealy-bug, both sexes of which 
had occurred two years running on flowering currant in his garden 
at Bedford Park. It was supposed to be Pseudococcus citri, a hot- 
house species.—Mr, K. C. Blair read a paper on ‘“‘ Luminous Insects,” 
