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B. comortaria, Tephrosia extersaria, and other geometers. On the 

 evening of Aug. 15tb, when examining the sugar, I found a very large 

 pupa of Psilara monacka spun up in the bark of an oak-tree, and a very 

 fine female emerged from it on Aug. 24th. Tlie larva of Acionycta alni 

 was nearly full-grown when taken, and went down to pupate on Aug. 

 17th. Mr. W. J. Cross had a larva of Stauropus fa;^i pupating on 

 Aug. 14th, but at the time of writing mine is only about half-grown, 

 though to all appearance perfectly healthy. The larvte of Moma orion 

 were very plentiful, and seemed to be widely distributed, but Catocala 

 sponsa was scarce, and 0. promiasa entirely absent during our visit. 

 With regard to Arijijnnis paphia, which was swarming in every glade, 

 it was noticeable tliat not a single specimen was worth taking, some 

 being literally in tatters, and that the var. valedna occurred in some 

 numbers. — F. A. Oldaker ; Parsonage House, Dorking, Sept. 5tli. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 5th, 1904. 

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

 The Rev. W. Beresford Watson, of St. Martin's Vicarage, Barbados, 

 West Indies, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Mr. G. H. Verrall 

 exhibited specimens of (a) Callicera yerhuryl, Verr., a Syrphid new to 

 science, taken this year m Scotland by Col. J. W. Yerbury, and [b) 

 C. (Euea, F., the other British species of the genus, together with 

 three European species of Callicera from the collections of Bigot and 

 Kowarz, C. macquatd, C. spinola;, and C. porrii, Band. — Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe, Tetropium fusciun, L. (male and female), and eight 

 specimens of Abdera 4-fasciata, Curt., all taken by him at Market 

 Bosworth, Leicestershire, in July, 1904. — The Rev. F. D. Morice, 

 cells constructed by two wasps, l-'ulisfes yaliicns and FAimenes co- 

 arctatus, found by him in the Balearic Islands. — Mr. A. J. Chitty, 

 specimens of the earwig Apteryyida media [albipennis), taken at 

 Huntingfield and Charing, Kent, this year. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, a 

 living specimen of I.abidura riparia, male, from the shore near Christ- 

 church, Hants, kept alive for more than a month, and fed upon 

 fruit, meat, &c. ; also a lantern-slide, depicting the threatening atti- 

 tude assumed by this earwig when disturbed. — Professor T. Hudson 

 Beare, on behalf of Mr. C. J. C. Poole, who was present as a visitor, 

 specimens of Axdonium sulcatum, Oliv., a species of Coleoptera new to 

 the British fauna. — Mr. W. Dannatt, a specimen of Papilio homerus 

 from the Blue Mountains, Jamaica, together with coloured drawings 

 of the larva painted by Lady Blake, and lent him by Mrs. E. M. 

 Swainson, of Baltimore, U.S.A., who had bred the species. He also 

 exhibited three new butterflies figured and described by him in the 

 ' Entomologist,' viz. Chlorippe yudiiiani, from Venezuela, Delias lie)ii}ieli, 

 from Gilolo, Mancthe johnstoni, from British Guiana. — Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man, for Mr. Hugh Main, a unique teratological specimen of Arctia 

 caia, bred this year. The insect had a threefold hind wing on the left 

 side. Immediately below the costa the wing divided into three layers, 

 each of which was apparently a normal wing so far as form, colour 



