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the staithe. The five-mile row by moonlight across the meres was 

 splendid, and enlivened by the furious approach of two gamekeepers, 

 who took us for poachers. 



Thursday, Aug. 4th, was the record hot day of the year. In the 

 evening we anchored at the edge of Rauworth Fen. Here, indeed, we 

 were on famous ground. Sugar was, however an absolute failure, no 

 doubt on account of the aphide-laden sallow and alder bushes. No 

 insects were seen at honey-dew. At dusk we netted some Ccenobia 

 rufa, one Tapinostola fidva, and also three N. hrevilinea. Light was 

 better. Five N. hrevilinea settled on the sheet, but had to be carefully 

 netted, as they would fly off at the least alarm. With several Lithosia 

 lurideola, L. rfriseola, Arctia caia, 0. potatoria, C. phrafpiiitidis, E. 

 apiciana, P.vitatta, V. testata, and C. phraffwitellus things hecasvae quite 

 lively. After eleven, however, it turned cold, and with a heavy dew 

 falling no more insects appeared, and so our last night on the Broads 

 came to an end. — G. Lissant Cox ; Ellacot, Birkenhead, Oct. 26th. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wed^iesday, October Idth, 1904. 

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

 Mr. Henry H. Brown of the Procurator-Fiscal's Office, and of Castle- 

 tower, Cupar, Fife, N.B. ; Mr. George Eckford, of 3, Crescent Avenue, 

 Plymouth; and Mr. W. Vaughan, of Denton Dene, Ealing, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a series of 

 Lozopera deaurana, Peyr., bred last s,pring at Hyeres, a species regarded 

 as lost, or mythical, until he rediscovered it three years ago at lie Ste, 

 Marguerite, Cannes ; and, on behalf of Mr. Hugh Main, a specimen 

 of Fieris biasdccr, the wings of which had been symmetrically injured, 

 probably by the girdle when in the pupal stage. — Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 specimens of Xothonhina muricata, Dalm., from Las Navas, Spain, 

 found trapped in the earthenware cups used to collect the exuding 

 resin on the trunks of pines. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, specimens 

 of the rare beetle, Cis hilamellatus, Wood, taken at Shirley on October 

 10th last. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, a female specimen of the rare dragonfly, 

 Ayrioji armatam. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, five specimens of Dimithcecia luteago 

 var. jickllni, from Bude, North Cornwall, taken during the first week 

 of July, 1901, and remarked that, while the typical D. luteago of the 

 Continent was tolerably constant, wherever it occurred in Britain it 

 assumed a special local form. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., a 

 number of specimens of the genus Sphecodes, five species in all, and of 

 their mimetic fly, a Tachinid, illustrating his remarks on Mr. Edward 

 Saunders's paper on the Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Balearic 

 Islands and Spam, recently published in the ' Transactions.' — Mr. G. A. 

 J. Eothney sent for exhibition a series of the Indian ant, Xlyrmicaria 

 fodiens, Jerdon, from a colony established in the big banyan-tree in 

 Barrackpore Park thirty-two years; and Monomorium, salomonis, Linn., 

 and Sole7iopsis geminata, Fab., 1895, successfully encouraged in Madras 

 godowns as a protection against white ants (termites). — Mr. E. E. 

 Green exhibited a spider from Ceylon mimetic of some Coccinellid 



