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railway), Venilia maculata, Boarmia consortaria (on fir-trunks), Te- 

 phrosia punctularia, Acidalia remutaria (including some nice forms), 

 Cabera pusaria, C. exanthemata, Bapta temerata, Macaria Uturata, La- 

 rentia pectinitaria, Melanthia ocellata, Pyrausta ostruuilis, Hydrocainpa 

 nympheata, Botys pandalis?, Harpella geoffrella, Scoparia amhigualis, and 

 S. diibitalis (on trunks). 



Dusking was not very successful, and the only additional species 

 taken in this way were : — Phloyophora meticulom, Epione advenaria, 

 Rumia cratgaata, lodis lactearia, Bapta taminata, Eiipithecia venosata, 

 E. nanata, E. vulgata, Hypsipetes ruberata (two), Melanippe sociata, M. 

 fluctuata, Coremia ferriigata, C. unidentaria, Cidaria corylata, C. trun- 

 cata, and Pardia tripimctana. 



May 31st we spent in the company of Mr. E. Morris, of Brocken- 

 hurst, and devoted most of the day to the " beehawks," of which we 

 secured a few of both species. On the same day we saw one or two 

 Nemeobius lucina, and found a male Smerinthus oceLlatxis at rest. Single 

 specimens of Nola confusalis, Dasychira pudibmida, Ephyra pendularia, 

 and two Erastria fuscula were also taken during our visit. Larvae 

 appeared to be scarce, and we did very little beating. We, however, 

 found two batches of Tceniocampa miniosa larvae, and kept about fifty 

 each. 



With regard to the Odonata, Calopteryx virgo was common by nearly 

 every stream, and several of the commoner species were well out, such 

 as Platetrum depressum, Agrion paella, and Pyrrhosuma nymphida. 

 Libellula quadrimaculata and Orthetrum candescens also fell to our nets ; 

 and we were very pleased to secure Anax imperator — a splendid insect! 

 Gomphus vuJgatissinms was just emerging at the Blackwater, and 

 several empty pupa skins were found on the reeds by the water's edge, 

 while two of the imagines were discovered drying their wings above 

 them. This insect was also seen hawking up and down the stream 

 higher up, but only one specimen was secured. On the same patch of 

 rushes pupa- skins of Calopteryx virgo were also found. 



Coleoptera were not seriously worked, but we brought home, 

 amongst others, Silpha atrata, Cetonia aurata, Melolontha vulgaris, 

 Necrophorus inortuorum, Rhagium bifasciatiim, Dotiacia linearis ?, Grypto- 

 cephalus aureolas, and Liwa populi. — Philip J. Bareaud and Kenneth 

 G. Blair. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological SociETy of London. — June Srd, 1903. — Professor 

 E. B. Poultou, M.A., D. Sc, F.R.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. G. C. 

 Champion exhibited numerous specimens of Coccinella distincta, taken 

 in the pine woods of Woking. They were found, as usual, running 

 about the ground in company with Eormica riifa, and were perhaps 

 wanderers from some other locality. Mr. Donisthorpe said the species 

 was still common at Weybridge in the nests of Formica riifa, and that 

 he had observed it also at Bexhill, while Mr. Chitty noted its former 

 occurrence in Blean Woods in great numbers. The history of the 

 larvae, he said, had not been worked out. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe 



