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one or two specimens, but had never found their hauut. This year, 

 however, on July 20th, I came upon it not two hundred yards from 

 where I had been searching before. They were in the utmost pro- 

 fusion on the side of a chalk-hill, and very pretty the males looked as 

 the sun caught the sheen of their wings. A second brood of L. arr/iolus 

 was also out on that date, and Satynis semele appeared plentifully. On 

 July 19th the first imago of my Ennomos fuscnntaria appeared, and 

 they are still coming out at intervals. In a field near Coldharbour, on 

 Aug. 7th, a friend of mine took a fine male of CoJias hijale, but I have 

 not been able to go there since. 



I am now staying near Lynton, in North Devon, and have only had 

 one day's entomology — Aug. 19th — when I took my net along the Lyn 

 Valley for about five miles. Ar(jynnis paphia was very common and 

 easy to catch, but, except for one fresh female, all were in bad con- 

 dition. A. adippe was to be seen, too, also in poor condition. Any 

 number of Paranje erjerides could be taken among the trees and wood- 

 land paths, and such things as L. icaras, Polyommatm phlceas, Epine- 

 phele ianira, and E. tithonus were absolutely swarming. I took two 

 fine specimens of Vanessa io, and one V. pobjchloros. A. paphia showed 

 a great liking for the bramble -bushes, and also for thistles, from which 

 latter it could easily be taken. But my trip to Devonshire is more for 

 health's sake than for entomology, and so my notes for August are, I 

 fear, somewhat scanty. — F. A. Oldaker ; Parsonage House, Dorking, 

 Aug. 20th, 1901. 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July 11th, 1901.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Kemp exhibited a short series of the Coleopteron Dytiscns 

 pimctulatus, taken by Mr. F. Enock at Wisley, together with the 

 Odonata, Brachytron pratense, Calopteryx splendens, Erythromma naiaa, 

 Agrion pulchellnm, Ischnara eleyans, with Vd^v. rubra; the Trichoptera, 

 Phryganea grandis, Limnophilus maniwratus, and L. rhombicus ; and the 

 Neuropteron, Raphidia nmculicollis, all taken at the Byfleet Field 

 Meeting. — Mr. F. M. B. Carr, a series of Theda rubl from Wrotham, 

 Kent, including a specimen with a cream spot on the fore wings. — 

 Mr. South, a series of Zonosoma porata, bred from a female taken at 

 Oxshott, and called attention to the unusual brown coloration of some 

 of the specimens ; also an example of Eurrhypara xirticata with con- 

 fluent spots, taken by a boy in Balham. On behalf of Mr. Mitford he 

 showed three varieties of Melitaa clnxia (1) having transverse lines of 

 fore wings absent, (2) central transverse lines partially effaced, (3) 

 central spots of fore wings confluent. — Mr. Montgomery, pupas of 

 Leucophasia sinapis, one specimen having the longitudinal line pink 

 instead of white. — Mr. Bishop, living larvae of Eugonia polychhros, 

 and pup^e of Euchlo'e cardamines. — Mr. Kirkaldy, various genera of 

 Fulgorince (lantern flies), showing the remarkable development of the 

 head ; a number of ornate species of Ehynchota, including the pale 

 blue Hansenia pulverulenta, the pale green Geisha punctatissima, the 

 delicate rose Cerynia tnaria, and a number of cofl'ee pests from Ceylon. 



