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small copse, mainly composed of oak, ash and elm, adjoining, and 

 situated about a quarter of a mile or less from some salt marshes bor- 

 dering the river Deben. 



I would like to remark upon the attractions of lilac and arbutus. 

 The former was a great bait for Neuria saponaria and Bianthcecia cap- 

 shicola, not to speak of many others. The charms of arbutus, too, 

 seem great. Happening to notice bees and wasps and other insects 

 swarming around its blossoms by day, I suspected it might prove 

 equally attractive to moths at night, and I was not deceived, for 

 though I found only common species, the number of these afforded by 

 a large shrub of arbutus in full bloom compared very favourably with 

 what I saw on the same nights at ivy, the latter being also fully out in 

 the near vicinity. I may add, sugared flowers upon many occasions 

 added to the bag, when tree-trunks and posts were entirely unproductive. 

 (Kev.) A. P. Waller; Hemley Rectory, Woodbridge, Nov. 21st, 1901. 



Lepidoptera at Witherslack. — Two days, July -Tth and 8th, on the 

 well-known Witherslack Mosses proved very successful. A very fine 

 and long series of Hyria auroraria (all of the dark purple form) were 

 secured; one or two worn females laid a small batch of ova, and I have 

 succeeded in rearing half a dozen moths ; these emerged on January 

 2nd this year. Nemeophila russala was also exceptionally abundant, a 

 grand lot of females being taken ; I obtained a quantity of ova of this 

 species also, and was successful in rearing a very complete second brood, 

 not more than three out of about sixty-six refusing to feed up, thirty-three 

 females and twenty- seven males being bred the last week in September. 

 Cccnonijmpha davm was over, only a few worn ones being seen. Acidalia 

 fumata was also over, although a few nice females were secured, after 

 much picking. Eupithecia 7ianata was fairly common and in fine con- 

 dition ; whilst Lasiocamp)a [ Bombi/x) quercus dashed about at a terrific pace. 

 LyccBna mjon males were m evidence, but no females were observed. — 

 C. F. Johnson ; Brenuington Crescent, Stockport, Jan. 22nd, 1902, 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — December 6th, 1901. — The 

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

 Frederick E. S. Adair, Flixton Hall, Bungay ; Mr, William Anning, 

 Box Hill, Surrey, and 39, Lime Street, London, E.C, ; Mr, Edward 

 Conuold, 7, Magdalen Terrace, St. Leonards-on-Sea ; Mr. Frederick 

 Muir, 86, Christchurch Street, Ipswich ; Mr. R. Shelford, The 

 Museum, Sarawak, Borneo ; and Mr. John Waddington, 38, Leicester 

 Grove, Blackmail Lane, Leeds, were elected Fellows of the Society. — 

 Mr. J. H. Carpenter exhibited a number of Colias hijale bred from ova 

 laid by the parent butterfly taken at Sheerness, August 18th, 1900. 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt said that twelve months ago there was no reliable 

 evidence as to the stage in which hijale passed the winter, but that 

 Mr. Carpenter had proved that it hybernates in the larval state, and 

 pupates and emerges in the spring. No one has yet successfully bred 

 G. edusa through the winter, as they do not and cannot feed up these 

 in this country. Hyale, on the other hand, is perfectly quiescent 



