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county, and this is the first living Staffordshire specimen I have seen. 

 Madeley is a colliery district, and this insect may have been imported with 

 pit props. A male of this species, or of the closely allied S. melanocerus 

 (Thoms) was brought to me iu July, 1897, taken in a cottage window here. 

 — John R. B. Masefield ; Rosehill, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Nov. 7th. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — December 6th, 1899. — Mr. 

 G. H. Verrall, President, in the chair. — Mr. Francis Gayner, of 20, 

 Queen Square, W.C, and Mr. F. B. Jennings, of 152, Silver Street, 

 Upper Edmonton, N., were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. J. J. 

 Walker exhibited a specimen of Colias marnoana, Rogenh., taken, with 

 other examples, by Lieut. Constable, R.N., at Massowah, on the Red 

 Sea. He considered this form to be only a dwarfed race of C. hyale, 

 Linn. ; and for comparison with it he showed specimens of the var. 

 nilgherriensis, Feld., from Central India, and of the var. simoda, De 

 rOrza, from Japan. Dr. Chapman exhibited a series of specimens, 

 selected from various English collections, together with a few foreign 

 examples, in order to illustrate the English forms found within the genus 

 Fumea. He also showed specimens of sepium, betulina, and saiicolella, 

 and remarked that the first of these species was very properly placed 

 by Mr. Tutt in a new genus (Bacotia), since it is a transitional form, 

 having as great affinities with Solenobia as with Fumea ; while the 

 other two species, though perhaps not distantly allied to Fumea, did 

 not truly belong to that genus, and were well placed by Tutt in a new 

 genus, Prorilia. Dr. Chapman then read some notes relating to the 

 genus Fumea, and to characters, chiefly drawn from structure, by 

 which the different species may be distinguished. Mr. Malcolm Burr 

 called attention to Dr. Sharp's paper on "The modification and attitude 

 of Idolum diabolicum," recently published in the ' Proceedings of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society " (vol. x., part iii.). He exhibited 

 the plate, drawn after nature by Mr. Muir, which illustrates the paper, 

 pointing out that no drawing of this kind, showing a Mautid, in its 

 natural colours simulating the petals of a flower, had hitherto been 

 published. He also exhibited species of Mantodea of various genera, 

 to show the different modifications by means of which insects of this 

 group are made to resemble leaves and flowers. Mr. Kenneth J. Morton 

 communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of new species of Oriental 

 Rhyacophilffi." — J. J. Walker and C. J. Gahan, Hon. Sees. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 November 9th, 1899.— Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. (A Special Pocket-box Exhibition.) — Mr. McArthur 

 exhibited series of Ttiphmna comes var. curtidi, from Hoy, Aporophila 

 lutulenta var. luneburgensis and var. sedi, from Orkney ; an extremely 

 dark Ayrotis cinerea and Dianthoecia carpophaga, with snowy ground 

 tint. Mr. Adkin, a long and extensively varied series of Boarmia 

 repandata. Major Ficklin, series of Dianthcecia luteago var. JickUni, 

 showing a tendency to the tint of var. lowei. Mr. Kaye, long and varied 

 series of numerous species of Sphingidae, collected by himself in Jamaica, 



