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N. dromedarius, A. hetularia (the latter species to be bad rigbt into 

 October), and Cymatophora diiplaris. These were found to repeat 

 themselves, August 3rd, with the addition of one A. leporina and 

 some PaiioHs jnniperda, the last-mentioned being sometimes mistaken 

 for M. Uturata. All these could have been beaten from birch (with the 

 exception of P. piniperda, from Scotch firs) until well into October. 

 In addition, I got live N. dict(Boides (deep purplish shiny brown, with a 

 broad yellow side stripe, and very geometer-looking), a good many 

 N. cameUna, and three A. nebnlosa (the last caught napping, as they 

 are night-feeders), all in October, off birch. Perhaps the most curious 

 experience of the season in the way of larvae was finding a colony of 

 Orgyia antiqua, August 12th, feeding on meadowsweet, mace-reed, and 

 water- dock. 



It was a bad season for dragonflies. The only record worth show- 

 ing is tlie abnormal capture of a solitary male Sympetnim acoticum 

 on Hatchmere Heath (Delamere Forest), October 10th. — J. Arkle; 

 Chester. 



Early Appearance op Cidaria picata. — On May 16th, 1903, when 

 cycling near Hadleigh, Suffolk, I saw a good- sized geometer on the 

 wing, and on capturing it was surprised to find it was a fine female 

 Cidaria picata. Some years ago I took a specimen on June 1st, which 

 I then thought was a very early date, so that this capture may be 

 worthy of record. — P. Harwood ; "Marlborough," Chesterfield Koad, 

 Newbury. 



SOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 October 22nd, 1903.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. C. W. Simmons, of Tufnell Park, N., and Mr. J. Ovenden, of 

 Frindsbury, Rochester, were elected members. — Mr. South exhibited 

 very interesting series of Anthrocera (Zygmia) trifolii and A. filipendulcB 

 from localities in Middlesex and Surrey, together with aberrations and 

 supposed hybrids, and read a short paper on the exhibit. — Mr. McArthur, 

 a short series of Hepialus humuli var. hethlandica, taken in Unst in 1882. 

 Mr. Dodds, specimens of the Coleopteron, Corynetes rnjipes, found alive 

 in a box of cigars. — Mr. Edwards, a wedding-cake which had been over 

 twenty years under a glass shade in a city confectioner's ; the interior 

 was thoroughly demolished by beetles, and the sugar was burrowed in 

 an extraordinary way by them. The species was recognized as Ano- 

 hium paniceum. — Mr. Carr, series of bred and captured males of Orgyia 

 antiqua, of which the former were very considerably the larger. — Mr. 

 Tonge, very fine photographs of the larvas of Sesia (Macroylossa) 

 stellatarum, Eumorpha [Chcerocampa) elpenor, Theretra [Chcerocampa) 

 porcellus, and Asphalia flavicornis. — Mr. West, short series of two 

 species of Hemiptera, Microphysa elegantula from Darenth, and Cardia- 

 stethus fasciventris from Box Hill. — Dr. Chapman, an album of photo- 

 graphs, showing the embryonic development of Botys hyalinalis, taken 

 by Mr. Hammond and Mr. Jefi'reys of Canterbury. It consisted of a 



