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locality, but as hybernated somewhat the worse for wear. Between Arch- 

 cliff Fort aud Shakespeare's Cliff I captured Bomhiis terrestris, Authophora 

 pilipes, Andrena albicrus, A. pilipes ; and of Diptera, also on the West Cliff, 

 Bibio marci and B. hortulanus were observed. — (Rev.) F. A. Walker ; Dun 

 Mallard, Cricklewood, N.W. 



Errata. — Page 16], lines 21 and 23, for " birch " read " beech." 



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Entomological Society of London. — April Srd, 1901. — Mr. Charles 

 G. Barrett, Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr. Albert Piffard, of Felden, 

 Boxmoor, Herts, and Mr. Percy Lathy, of Lyndon Villa, Sydney Road, 

 Enfield, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Mr. G-oss read a letter 

 from the Eight Hon. Charles Ritchie, Secretary of State for the Home 

 Department, conveying the King's thanks for the loyal and dutiful 

 address of the Fellows of the Entomological Society of London, ex- 

 pressing their sympathy with His Majesty and the Royal Family 

 on the occasion of the lamented death of Her late Majesty Queen 

 Victoria. — The Rev. A. E. Eaton sent for exhibition, on behalf of 

 Mr. P. M. Halford, a female sub-imago of a species of Ephemeridae, 

 of the genus Ephemera, received from Central Africa, without more 

 precise indication of locality, the first time this genus has been noticed 

 from Africa. Mr. McLachlan remarked that Ephemera usually occurred 

 in cold alpine or temperate regions, aud that the Central African example 

 probably inhabited the mountains at a considerable altitude. — Dr. 

 Chapman exhibited cases of Lujfia ferchaultella from Cannes, and a 

 spider, which are found on the same rocks, the interest of the speci- 

 mens being in the fact that the spider, when at rest, has almost 

 precisely the same form and coloration as the cases of the moth. — ■ 

 Mr. W. L. Distant communicated a paper entitled "Enumeration of 

 the Heteroptera (Rhynchota) collected by Leonardo Fea in Burma 

 and its vicinity." 



Maij Isi.— The Eev. Canon W. W. Fowler, M.A., in the chair.— 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, for Mr. H. W. Vivian, a specimen of 

 Xylophasia lateritia, Hufn., a species not hitherto recorded in the 

 British Islands, taken in South Wales by Mr. W. E. R. Allen; also 

 Deiopeia pulchella, from the same district ; Dianthecia luteago var. 

 barrettii, from one of the islands off the Glamorganshire coast ; and 

 varieties of Eupithecia virgaureata, much blackened, E. lariciata, E. 

 satyrata, and E. exiguata, taken in the county of Glamorgan by Mr. 

 Vivian. — Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited specimens of Heliocopris gigas, L., 

 from Mashonaland, and Silpha biguttata, Fairm., from Patagonia. — 

 Sir George Hampson exhibited two females of an apterous Lasiocampid 

 from the Transvaal, with cocoon and ova bred by Colonel J. M. Fawcett, 

 5th Lancers. The larva is very much like that of the British Lasio- 

 campa rubi. The female does not emerge from the cocoon, its antennae 

 being aborted and all the joints coalesced with a flabellate organ with 

 slight striae indicating the joints ; the fore tibiae short, with traces of 

 tibial claws. The male is unknown, and as Colonel Fawcett was on 

 active service at the time of emergence, he was unable to expose the 



