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and interesting species. Mr. Southey brought a box of Lepi- 

 doptera, among which was a Deiopeia pulchella from Southend, in 

 Essex. Mr. Payne showed a box of Geornetrse. Much attention 

 was given to some photographs and remarks upon the Lepidoptera 

 of Hudson's Bay by Mr. Walton Haydon, who had just returned, 

 after a residence there of upwards of five and a half years. 



Haggerston Entomological Society. — Although the season 

 has been greatly decried by collectors of Lepidoptera, yet the 

 good selection of insects shown at the Pocket-box Exhibition, 

 held by the above Society on the 15th November last, proves 

 that, although species were undoubtedly scarce, yet there are 

 many earnest and persevering workers in the neighbourhood of 

 London. Limited as the show was to this year's taking, it must 

 have been a pleasant surprise to any visitor, having a knowledge 

 of Entomology, to observe the number of species present usually 

 considered as " good things." The habit of order and neatness, 

 so necessary to the entomologist, was very observable in many of 

 the boxes exhibited, those of Mr. Charles Boden being especially 

 worthy of mention, including as they did many of the Tortrices 

 and Tinea. His Sesice were beyond praise, both for setting and 

 condition, a long row of both Sesia chrysidiformis and of S. cyni- 

 piformis figuring prominently ; his S. chrysidiformis bred from 

 dock being larger than those from sorrel. Among his Tortrices 

 I noticed Mixodia bourchardana, Chrosis audouinana, Coccyx 

 pygmceana, and Ephippiphora nigricostana. Among the Cram- 

 bites, Phycis adomatella, P. subornatella, P. carbonariella, and 

 Pempelia palumbella. Among the Tinea, Solenobia inconspi- 

 cuella, Coleophora inflatella, and Tinea bistrigella. The box 

 shown by Mr. J. A. Cooper contained several good species and 

 rarities; two dark Stauropus fagi; three of that favourite of 

 variety-breeders, viz., Arctia caja, one of which was very dark and 

 suffused, and one black repandata. His Melitcea artemis, fed upon 

 honeysuckle, were of large size, and claimed a large share of 

 admiration ; as did also the very fine Angerona prunaria, 

 exhibited by Mr. T. Huckett, who also showed some exceptionally 

 large Saturnia carpini and Liparis dispar. Among the noticeable 

 varieties was that of Polyommatus phlccas, taken on the wing by 

 Mr. J. Lusby, at High Beech, in which the usual zigzag series 

 of black spots on the fore wing were grouped in the centre of the 

 disk. Among the rarities may be numbered Xylina conformis, 



