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fluviata." The markings on the wings are more distinct than those in 

 Newman's illiistralioii, the median bar being broken. I believe it to be 

 the first of its species recorded for North Wales, and it is now iu the 

 Gro.^venor Museum, Chester. — (Miss) A. Si'KKLii Pekkins. 



Vitality op HyBERNiA rupicapraria. — On Feb. 17th I found a 

 specimen of H. rupicapraria, on a pond covered wiih ice nearly an inch 

 thick; I broke the ice, and put the piece containing the moih in a box; 

 the insect must have been in, or on the ice about two days; there was 

 quite a quarter of an inch of ice over the moth. When I got home I 

 aissolved the ice, and found that the moih was quite perfect. I was 

 surprised when 1 looked at it two hours later to liud it alive. — T. L. 

 Uowk; Beaufort House, Penarih, South Wales. 



Phlooophora METicur.osA IX Winter. — On Feb. 15ih last I hid a 

 specimen of P. metlculosa brought to me by a lad, who found it on an oak- 

 tree on Wimbledon Gammon. On ^larch 23rd, last year, I took an 

 example of this species at t«allow. I also took a specimen on a fem-e in 

 Kichniond Park, Dec. Suth, 1899.— J. Miller; 44, Lougfield Street, 

 Wandsworth, S.W. 



A specimen of Phlogophora meticulosa was taken on palings on Dartford 

 Heath, as eailv as March ^rd this year. My previous earliest record is 

 ^larch 31st, 1899, at sallow, in the New Forest. — I have taken the full- 

 grown larva in January. — F. M. B. Caur; 46, Haudeu Koad, Lee, S.E. 



[See also Etitom. xxxiii. 13. — Ed.] 



Early Appearance of Pieris rap^e in London. — On March 21st, 

 as 1 was walking down John Street, Adelphi, at 5.30 in the afternoon, 

 something white fluttered down on to the pavement in front of me. I 

 picked it up and found it to be a P.rapcB, evidently just fresh out. It 

 probably came from the Embankment Gardens, which were not far off; 

 but it is difficult to understand why it should have emerged on such a day, 

 for there was then, and had been all day, a bitterly cold and very high 

 wind from the north-east. — Arthur Cottam ; Eldercroft, Watford. 



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Entomological Society of Lonpon. — February 6th, 1901. — The Rev. 

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

 moved that an address of condolence and congratulation be presented 

 by the Society to his Majesty King Edward VII. on his accession to the 

 throne, and remarked that in 1833, when the Society was founded, 

 her Majesty the late Queen, with her mother the Duchess of Kent, was 

 the first to sign the book subscribed by members and fellows upon 

 admission to the Society. The motion was seconded by Col. Swinhoe 

 and carried unanimously. — Mr. E. B. G. Nevinson, of 8, Tedworth 

 Square, Chelsea, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — The President 

 announced that he had appointed as Vice-Presidents, Mr. C. G. Barrett, 

 Mr. E. Saunders, and Mr. G. H. Verrall. — The President exhibited a 

 specimen of Colias edusa var. helice with the margins of the wings 

 entirely dark as in the male ; also a variety of Carterocephalus palamon 

 with the hind wings dark save for one conspicuous orange spot. — Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman exhibited a large series of Endrosse collected during 



