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May 16th to July 3rd. Emiomos aufjidaria, one or two males, August 

 lObh to 12th. E. fnscaritaria, one male, August 29th. Am,phldasij!i 

 betidaria, males common, females rare, June to August ; var. 

 douhledaijaria, rather scarce, July. Hemerophila abruptaria, one dwarf 

 specimen, July 11th. Boarmia rhomboldaria, males common, July 

 10th to 28th. Acidalia aversata, scarce, June and July. A. incanaria, 

 fairly common throughout July. Abraxas r/rossulariata, common, 

 July. Hybeniia defoliaria, three males, November 13th, 14th and 

 15th. Chebnatobia brumata, one male, December 18th. Kupithecia 

 vuhjata, common, June and July. E. centaureata, three specimens, 

 June. Hypsipetes elatata, fairly common, July. Melanippe Jluctuata, 

 very common, June to August. 



This list is by no means exhaustive as regards all my London 

 captures ; it is simply a list of specimens obtained at light during 

 last year. Many species mentioned in it as rare are to be captured 

 commonly by other methods; as, for instance, H. abruptaria, of which 

 I have only once taken a specimen at light, I find commonly on fences 

 and walls. B. hirtaria still seems as common as ever on the trunks of 

 the limes, and appears not to change its position for sun or wind ; in 

 fact, the only species of the seventy-one above mentioned that seems 

 to get scarcer is E. centaureata. Ten years ago it would have been an 

 easy matter to have taken twenty or thirty specimens by a cursory 

 examination of the garden wall ; gradually, however, it became 

 scarcer, and at last seemed to die out. In fact, the three specimens 

 recorded above are the only examples I have seen here for five years. 

 I should be very grateful to any London entomologists who would 

 inform me of captures of any species not mentioned in the above 

 list. — B. Stonell, 25, Studley Road, Clapham, S.W. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, Jan. 18th, 1905. 

 — The 71st Annual Meeting, Professor Edward B. Poulton, D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., the President, in the chair. — After an abstract of the Trea- 

 surer's accounts, showing a good balance in tlie Society's favour, had 

 been read by Mr. R. W. Lloyd, one of the Auditors, Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 one of the Secretaries, read the Report of the Council. It was then 

 announced that the following had been elected Officers and Council 

 for the Session 1905-1906 :— President, Mr. Frederic Merrifield ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. Albert H. Jones ; Secretaries, Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, 

 M.A., and Commander James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S. ; Librarian, 

 Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of Council, 

 Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow, Lieut. -Colonel Charles Bingham, F.Z.S. , Dr. 

 Thomas A. Chapman, F.Z.S., Mr. James Edward Collin, Dr. Frede- 

 rick A. Dixey, M.A., Mr. Hamilton H. C. J. Druce, F.Z.S., Mr. Herbert 

 Goss, F.L.S. , Mr. William John Lucas, B.A., Professor Edward B. 

 Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S., Mr. Louis B. Prout, Mr. Edward Saunders, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., and Colonel John W. Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S. The 

 President referred to the loss sustained by the Society by the deaths of 

 the Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., Mr. Charles G.Barrett, 



