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gothica and T. stahilis begau to emerge, followed on March 2nd by T. 

 munda. Hybernia marginaria I did not see till March 4th, and on the 

 following day Eupithecia ahhreviata emerged. On the 11th H. rupi- 

 capraria came to light— the only specimen I have seen this year, and 

 Anuopteryx ascularia has been conspicuous by its absence. Panolis 

 piniperda I toolv on April 3nd, ajid on the same day found a cocoon of 

 Dicranura bicuspis, empty. Vanessa io was seen on April 1st, and V. urlicce 

 on the 2nd. Two Xylocampa lithorhiza were taken on the 4th, and two 

 nice T. gothica var. gothicina, male and female, at sallow, on the same 

 evening. Scopelosouia satellitia at sallow on the 5th, and the last H. mar- 

 ginaria the same day. F. polychloros was first seen on April 9th, and is 

 now absolutely abundant ; I see dozens every day. Their courtship is 

 chiefly performed around the tops of the ash-trees, which are now in full 

 bud. If hybernated specimens are any criterion, this should be a great 

 '• Vanessa year " in this part of the country at least. V. urticcB, of course, 

 is everywhere, and V. io is commoner than I have seen it for some years. 

 On April lOth Anticlea badiata was taken at light, and on the 11th Gone- 

 pteryx rhamni was seen ; this species is also abnormally abundant. On 

 the 14th Lithosia sororcula emerged from out of my captures while 

 'i'go''^g- ^y ^he way, I notice this species is almost unanimously given a8 

 feeding on the lichens of larch, pine and birch. This cannot be the case 

 here; the insect is fairly common on all the oak-trunks around here, but we 

 have practically neither birch nor pine within six or seven miles. Pieris 

 rapt appeared on the 17th, and Taniocampa miniosa (two) at sallow on the 

 18th, while on the same day a fine male Asphalia rideiis emerged ; this 

 from a larva bred last summer. On the 20th Heliaca tenebrata emerged 

 from a captured pupa, and on the 2l8t I saw the first Pieris napi. — 

 J. Aylward Churchill; Billingshurst, Sussex. 



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Entomological Society of London. — March20th, 1901. — Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall, Vice-President, in the chair.— Mr. WiUoughby Gardner, F.L.S., 

 Reforna Club, Liverpool ; Mr. F. Hopson, 16, Rosslyu Hill, N.W. ; 

 Dr. C. A. Ledoux, Grahamstown, South Africa ; Mr. C. P. Pickett, 

 Leyton, Essex ; Mr. W. G. Smith, 164, Wells Road, Knowle, Bristol ; 

 Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, Sydney, New South Wales; Mr. H. H. 

 Wbyman, M.A., Montreal, Canada; and Mr. F. C. Woodforde, Market 

 Drayton, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. C. J. Watkins sent 

 for exhibition a series of larch twigs, illustrating the winter condition 

 of Coleophora laricella, the special feature being the manner in which 

 the cases of the larvae assimilated in colour with the bark of the larch. 

 — Mr. G. B. Eoutledge exhibited a specimen of Hydrilla palnstris, taken 

 on the wing by Mr. J. E. Thwaytes when sugaring near Carlisle on 

 June 10th, 1899. He said it was the first male taken in that district, 

 and Mr. C. G. Barrett remarked that it was the most definitely marked 

 specimen of any known, and that in the northern locality the lines on 

 the wings seemed to be brought out with greater distinction than in the 

 fen country and elsewhere. He also exhibited specimens of Bembidium 

 schiippeli, a rare beetle captured on the banks of the river Irthiug. — 



