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though both were no doubt fresh enough when first captured. — 

 Hubert F. Poole ; Glen-Rest, Shanklin, June 13th, 1904. 



CoLiAs EDusA IN CORNWALL. — Last August a friend of mine took 

 Colias edusa in North Cornwall. It is a fine male, in good condition. — 

 L. And. Riley; Manor House, Kingston, Taunton, May 31st, 1904. 



Erratum. — Page 167, line 11, for " Hadena " read " Acronycta.'' 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May 4:th, 1904. — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a piece of a plant of Eupatoiium macro- 

 phyllutn from British Guiana. It was stated that the white flowers 

 were very attractive to the Lycorea, Melincea, and Mechanitis species of 

 that region. Vast numbers were often to be seen congregated on one 

 single bush. Species of Heliconius were also found on the same plant, 

 but only occasionally, and it was significant that only those species 

 that agreed closely in pattern and coloration with the Ithomiina; were 

 so found. He also exhibited a remarkable larva-like twig of birch, 

 found on Oxshott Heath while he was searching for larvae of Geometra 

 papiiionaria, and, on behalf of Mr. C. P. Pickett, a pupa of Rumia 

 cratcngata , the larva of which had spun up in an empty pupa-case of 

 Pieris brassiccB. The latter was on the roof of a breeding-cage, and the 

 Geometrid larva had completely crept inside to spin its cocoon. — Mr. 

 J. E. Collin exhibited a specimen of Corethra obscaripes, v. d. Wulp 

 [7=C. fusca, Staeg.), a little-known species of the genus, and new to 

 the British list, which he had found in some numbers at Newmarket. 

 — Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a living larva of Agrotis ashivorthii, of 

 which he had found considerable numbers on one of the mountains of 

 Carnarvonshire during the last week in April. — Commander J. J. 

 Walker, R.N., exhibited a gall sent him by Mr. Harold S. Mort, iden- 

 tified by Mr. Froggatt as Brachyscelis dtiplex, Schrader, and found at 

 Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, N.S.W., where it was by no means 

 common. Mr. Mort wrote that he thought at first it was made by 

 joiniug two leaves, but noticed afterwards that it grew direct from the 

 trunk of the tree (a Eucalyptus), while Mr. Froggatt had informed 

 him that the whole of the gall, which resembled a large locust-bean, 

 including the ears, was made by the insect. — Mr. G. H. Verrall 

 exhibited three specimens, from the Hope Collection at Oxford, of 

 Neoitamus cothnrmitus, Meig., an Asilid not previously recorded as 

 British. They were taken near Oxford by Mr. W. Holland. — The 

 President exhibited a Longicorn beetle, together with a large Bracon 

 from the same locality, captured near Malvern, Natal, by Mr. C. N. 

 Barker, who said that the large yellow and black ichneumon, when on 

 the wing, bore an extraordinary likeness to the Longicorn Nitocris 

 nigricnrnis, though no one would suspect a similarity in the cabinet. — 

 Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited living larvae and cases of several species 

 of the lepidopterous genus Coleophora, and contributed notes on C. troy- 



