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Inca, L., abundant. Coccinella 7-punctata, L., C. hipunctata, L., C. 

 variabilis, F., common everywhere. Coccinella ocellata, L., only one, 

 taken on pine-tree, Hister bimacidatns, L., under stones. Cossoniis 

 linearis, F., very local. Clivina fossor, L., under stones. Athous 

 hmtnorrhoidalis, F., very abundant. (Edemere cceridea, lb., abundant 

 on flowers during July and August. Telephorus rh/peatus, 111., and 

 other Telephoridse, common on flowers. Xestobiuxi (Anobium) tessel- 

 latum, F., plentiful in old wood. Nehria brevicollis, F., Pogonus 

 chalceas, Marsh, under stones on the "Hog's Back." Amara fulva, 

 De G., very few met with. A. familiaris, Duft., A. lucida, Duft., 

 common under stones, particularly on Peasmarsh. — J. A. Croft ; 

 Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey. 



PvoaiRA piGKA IN SuRREY. — In the most recent list of the Lepido- 

 ptera of Surrey P. pir/ra is noted as being uncommon, and only two 

 localities in the county are given for the species. It may therefore be of 

 interest to mention that larvas of P. pigra are to be found more or less 

 commonly in the Esher and Ockham districts. On August 27th last 

 they were decidedly numerous at Wisley, and I collected over forty 

 small ones in less than half an hour. The species also occurs at 

 Byfleet, and I have frequently found larvae there on dwarf sallow. — 

 Richard South. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November IGtii, 

 1904.— Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. Edward Goodwin, of Canon Court, Wateringbury, 

 Kent, was elected a Fellow of the Society. — Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe exhibited the second recorded British specimen of Orchestes 

 sparsus, Fahr., taken by him on August 28th last in the New Forest. 

 — Mr. H. W. Andrews, specimens of Atherix crassipes, Mg., from the 

 New Forest, the only previously recorded locality in Great Britain 

 being near Ticehurst, Sussex. — Mr. G. 0. Sloper, two aberrant forms 

 of MelitcEa athalia, male and female, from Luan, above Corbeyrier, 

 Switzerland, and one male taken on June 26th this year at Martigny. 

 The tendency of the black markings to supersede the fulvous was par- 

 ticularly noticeable in the latter specimen. — The President, cases con- 

 taining Diptera, and a case containing the skins of African Sphingid 

 larvae, dried in botanical paper, and, after seventy years, still preserving 

 their colours, from the Burchell collection in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, a gall of some lepidopterous insect found on the 

 Califate bushes in Patagonia. Tiie gall resembled that of Cynips Iwllari, 

 but was hollow, the walls being about ^ in. in thickness. The circular 

 door prepared by the larva was about ^ in. in diameter. The pupa 

 was lying free, without any silk cocoon. It was suggested that the 

 insect was perhaps allied to (Ecocecis. — Mr. C. H. Kenrick communi- 

 cated a paper entitled " Natural Selection applied to a Concrete Case." 

 Mr. J. C. Kershaw, papers on "Enemies of Butterflies in South China," 

 and "A Life-history of Gerydus chinensis." — Mr. Nelson Annandale, 

 B.A., a paper on " The Eggs and Early Stages of a Coreid Bug, pro- 

 bably Dalader acutirosta, with a note on its Hymenopterous Parasites." 



