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shrivelled up and died. Nyssia zonaria was another complete failure. 

 The majority of the larv* entirely disappeared, leaving three at first and 

 finally one, which also died after becoming almost full grown. This led 

 me to suspect that they were cannibals. Out of about fifty larvae of 

 Amphidanys strataria, which emerged on May 26th, only eight passed 

 through to the pupa, the first pupa having appeared on July 17th, and 

 I strongly suspect these of cannibalistic propensities also. Some fine 

 black imagines of A. hetuhoia var. doubledayaria emerged on April 29th 

 and following days. The first few were the blackest, and they gradually 

 got lighter and lighter, though none were of the normal spotted type. 

 A female of Melanthia ocellata, obtained by beating on Ranmore, 

 deposited a number of ova on the way home on July 3rd, and the little 

 larvae appeared on July 5th ; but I did not take much trouble about 

 them, and tliey all died in a few days. 1 think that, considering the 

 season, my moth-rearing during the year may be described as having 

 been fairly successful. 



Altogether, seventy-five species of Heterocera were taken by me 

 this year, includiug Lkhosla soiorcuUi, Pcecilocampa populi, Drepaiia 

 cultraria, Pliisia chrysitis, Acontin Inctnosa, Phytometra viridaria, Eu- 

 clidia mi, E. ylyphica, Acidalia ornata, A. maryinepunctata, Bnpta teme- 

 rata, Aspilates ochrearia, Eupithecia ohlonyata, E. assim.ilata, E. pw>iil((ta, 

 Lobophora viretata, Mekmippe rivata, and Cldaria dotata. These have 

 been taken either while collecting during the day, or by beating, or by 

 searching the lamp-posts at night ; but I am afraid I have been lazy 

 with regard to the collecting of the night-flying moths, having done 

 no sugaring, sallow, or ivy-blossom searching. — F. A. Oldaker ; 

 Parsonage House, Dorking, Nov. 10th, 1902. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — November 19th, 1902. — -The 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. E. M. Cheeseman, of 63, Railway Street, Durban, Natal, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. — Dr. Sharp, F.R.S., exhibited the 

 egg-cases made by a beetle of the genus Aspidumorpha (A. pwncticosta), 

 and stated that they had been sent to him by Mr. F. Muir, of Durban, 

 Natal, where the beetle and the egg-cases are common. He said that 

 Mr. Muir had observed the manner in which the case is formed, and 

 hoped shortly to present a paper to the Society describing this, and 

 the anatomical structures involved. — Dr. Norman H. Joy exhibited a 

 well-marked aberration of a female Lyccena icarus striped black on the 

 under side in the place of the usual ocellations ; an androgynous 

 specimen of the same species ; an aberration of a male Lyctena bellaryus, 

 similarly striped on the under side ; a specimen of Lycana aryiades 

 taken in 1885 near Bournemouth ; and specimens of Apatura iris from 

 the neighbourhood of Reading, captured in 1901. Describing the 

 habits of the latter species, he said that with Mr. Lee he took alto- 

 gether fourteen specimens, all males, eleven of them from the three 



