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year, sugaring was very bad indeed, the results being extremely poor. 

 Leucania turca, which I felt almost certain of getting, was either not 

 out, or extinct, at Hurst Hill. The weather, too, taken on the whole, 

 was shocking — rain almost every day ; so, packing up my baggage, I 

 left on Tuesday, June 24th, having only spent ten days in Brocken- 

 hurst, where I had intended spending a whole fortnight. — A. J, 

 Lawrance; 65, Malyon Road, LadyweB, S.E., Sept. 16th, 1902. 



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Entomological Society of London. — October l.s^ 1902. — The Rev. 

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

 St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Dibolia cynoglossi, taken 

 by him near Pevensey on the 11th August last. He said that the 

 beetle had not been recorded as British since 1866. — Mr. 0. E. 

 Janson exhibited a fine hermaphrodite specimen of Argj/nnis j^aphia, 

 taken in the New Forest by Mr. Herbert Charles on July 28th, 

 and recorded in the 'Entomologist'; also a melanic specimen 

 of Papilio demoleus, from Ceylon, in which all the usual marginal 

 and submarginal yellow markings were absent and the discal mark- 

 ings much obscured ; on the under side the yellow markings were 

 entirely wanting. — -Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a male ('allnturrpha 

 dnmhmla with the hind wings suffused with black, and an extra black 

 spot ill the centre, the white spot on the fore wings being absent ; and 

 a very large female of the same species, both bred from larvas found 

 at Walmer at the end of March ; and three aberrant specimens of 

 Triplutna fimbria, bred from larvae taken at Wood Street during the 

 same month. — Mr. C. 0. Waterliouse exhibited specimens of a wasp 

 {Zethus chalybeus) SLiid a neuropteron (Mantissa semihijalina), received 

 with a collection of Hymenoptera from Rio Janeiro, suggesting a 

 curious case of mimicry. — Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited specimens of 

 Hister merdarius, from Broxbourne, Herts, part of a large colony of 

 this usually scarce species found with H. 12-striabus and other beetles 

 inhabiting a heap of a chemical substance, probably gas-lime, in 

 which also many larvfe, presumably of H. merdarius, and burrows, 

 were observed. The soil was warm and moist, and this, and the 

 presence of a quantity of vegetable refuse thrown on the heap, was no 

 doubt the attraction to the Histers to settle there. — Mr. A. J, Chitty 

 exhibited a specimen of Metoecus paradoxus with a part of the cells of 

 a nest of Vespa vulgaris, in which place the beetle is invariably found. 

 The beetle in the cell tucks in his head, only displaying on the surface 

 the thorax, which is coloured similarly to the face of the wasp. This 

 peculiarity suggests a ca^e of mimicry, and Professor Poulton, F.R.S., 

 said that it fitted in with the case of some other bees and wasps. — 

 Mr. H. Rowland-Brown exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. F. Leigh, of 

 Durban, a female and male specimen of a rare noctuid, Musgravia 

 leighi, Hampson, discovered by him in Natal, and read remarks upon 

 the life-history of the species, communicated by the captor. — Mr. 

 Stanley W. Kemp exhibited two additions to the British list of Coleo- 

 ptera — Bembidium aryentiulum, from Lough Neagh, Armagii ; and 



