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agathina (?) from heath, and two each of Cleora lichenaria and Hemithea 

 thymiaria. Gonepteryx rhamni was fairly abundant. Such insects as 

 Brephos parthenias, Lobophora lobulata, &c., which one would naturally 

 expect to find, did not put in an appearance at all. On pulling some bark 

 off an old dead oak-tree, several Bhagium inquisitor and R. bifasciatum 

 were exposed. 



Sallows, though by no means good, were better than day-work. After 

 the first night Taniocampa stabilis was extremely common, outnumbering 

 Cerastis vaccinii, the next in numbers, by about ten to one. Of Tanio- 

 campa miniosa, which I did not take last year, I secured nine, mostly 

 perfect specimens. T. muncla, as in 1899, was represented by a solitary 

 example. T. cruda was scarce, and in bad condition, apparently over. 

 T. gothica very fine, and fairly common. We obtained also two perfect 

 Pachiiobia rubricosa, half a dozen Panohs piniperda (another collector 

 whom we met took forty-two in one night), a few Xylocampa /ithorhiza 

 and Eupithecia abbreviata, and single specimens of Hyhernia marginaria 

 and Anticlea badiata. Two examples of Scopelosoma satellitia were also 

 noticed, and one Xylophasia lithoxylea (surely a very unusual insect — I did 

 not know it hybernated). Larvae beaten at night were Cleora lichenana, 

 Rumia iuteolata, Triphmna fimbria, and T. pronuba (? or orbona). 



I should be glad if any one could tell me whether TcRniocampa incerta 

 {instabilis) is at all local, as I have not come across a single specimen in 

 the New Forest, either this year or last. We returned home on Tuesday, 

 and the following day the weather immediately became almost perfect. — 

 F. M. B. Carr ; 46, Handen Road, Lee, S.E. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — May 27id, 1900. — Mr. W. L. 

 Distant, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. A. A. Dalglish, of 21, 

 Prince's Street, Glasgow, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. 

 W. L. Distant exhibited the cocoon, measuring nearly three and a half 

 inches each way, of a Coprid beetle — probably belonging to the genus 

 HeUocopris — found at Pretoria, in the Transvaal. The Rev. Theodore 

 Wood exhibited a specimen of Carabus auratus, L., taken in either 

 June or September, 1898, by Mr. Ferrand, of Littlefield House, 

 Exmouth, on the Haldon Hills, in the neighbourhood of that town. 

 Mr. McLachlan exhibited an example of Rhinocyphea fulgidipennis, 

 Guerin, a brilliant little dragonfly of the subfamily Calopteryginte, 

 a native of Cochin China, which, so far as he knew, had not been 

 captured since prior to 1830. It had been in M. Guerin's hands, and 

 Mr. McLachlan had received it from M. Rene Oberthiir. Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman exhibited vai'ious specimens illustrating Acanthopsyche opa- 

 cella ; fresh females showing the six nearly complete rings of silky 

 wool with which she is clothed ; specimens preserved in cop., showing 

 the exact position of the male moth in the female case, and the position 

 of the two moths in relation to the female pupa-case. It was inci- 

 dentally mentioned that the inflation of the male abdomen with air 

 was observed to be the main force employed in advancing the male 

 abdomen into position, and that observation of the immature wing 

 threw considerable light on the real neuration in this species. Mr. 



