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male specimen of H. atriplicis at sugar on June 28th. As this is such 

 a rarity I have thought it worth recording. A few days later, in 

 the same neighbourhood, a beautifully fresh D. oo was captured. — 

 D. Dewar Stanley; R.S.O., Co. Durham. 



Cychrus rostratus in Surrey. — On July 5tli I secured a specimen 

 of Cychrus rostratiia floating half-dead in the baths, and on the 14th I 

 took another example at rest on a reed at Cuttmill Ponds. It was 

 stridulating loudly by rubbing the extremity of the abdomen against 

 the under surface of the elytra. I do not know whether this beetle 

 has been noticed in South-west Surrey before. — J. A. Croft ; Charter- 

 house, Godalming. 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 May 12th, 1904. — Mr. A. Sich, P.E.S., President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 Goulton exhibited another series of fine photographs of the larvte of 

 Lepidoptera, including those of Aventia Jiexxda, Hepialus humidi, Phi- 

 halapteryx lapidata, Enodia hyperanthiis, Lemania pallens, &C. — Mr. 

 Ansorge, five specimens of Dytiscus cuxiunfiexiis, taken from one small 

 pond at Nortliwood. — Mr. Raynard, ova of Facknobia rubricosa and 

 Satuniia pavonia, from Wimbledon and the New Forest respectively, 

 and the larvas of Noctua baja. — Mr. Tonge, an album of photographs 

 of ova recently taken by him. He noted that his magnification was 

 uniformly twenty diameters. The chief species were, Thais polyxena 

 var. Cassandra, Breplios notha, Tephrosiabiundularia, T. cinctaria, Demas 

 coryli, and Selenia iUunaria. — Mr. Turner, larvfe and cases of the fol- 

 lowing species of the genus Coleophora : — (1) C. pyrrhxdipennella, a 

 black, silken case on heather, from Mr. Main in the New Forest, and 

 Mr, West at Shirley ; (2) C. alcyonipenneUa, a very similar case, but 

 not so compressed, on L'entaurea nigra, from Ranmore ; (3) C. solitari- 

 ella, a slender, whitish, tubular case, on Stellaria holostea, from Mr. 

 Sich, at Chiswick and also from Lewisham ; (4) C. hemerubiella, a 

 tubular, upright, dark browji case, on hawthorn, from Mr. Sich, Chis- 

 wick; (5) C. albitarsella, a compressed, blackish, hairy case, on mar- 

 joram, sent by Mr. Bankes, from Dorset ; (6) (7. olivaceella, a long, 

 slender, brown case, on *§. holostea, the rare but close companion of 

 C. solitariella, from Lewisham ; and (7) C. lineolea, a large, rough case, 

 on Ballota nigra, from Lewisham. — Mr. Main, a very large species of 

 "silver-fish," which came over from Java in a cargo of sugar. — Mr. 

 McArthur, a nice series of finely marked Agrotis cinerea, from Brighton. 

 — Mr. Barnett, Plusia moneta, from Welling, Kent. — Mr. Carpenter, a 

 photograph of a pupa of Enchloe cardamines, and stated that the pupte 

 varied with the colour of the environment at the time of pupation ; 

 those on the green stems were green, those on the drab-coloured food 

 were drab-coloured, and those on the zinc top of the cage were decidedly 

 zinc-coloured. — Mr. Lucas gave a very interesting address, with lantern 

 illustrations, on "British Orthoptera," and requested members to fur- 

 nish him with any particulars of the occurrence of the various species. 



May IQth. — The President in the chair. — The President referred in 

 suitable terms to the loss Entomology had sustained by the death of 

 Mr. McLachlan, F.R.S., a member of the Society for many years. 



