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of the third brood have, iu my case, all turned out infertile, although 

 a friend tells me his experience of the same brood has been quite the 

 reverse. I kept my larvae in cages placed on a warm kitchen shelf by 

 the fireplace, and fed them on dock and groundsel. 



(To be continued.) 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — May Srd, 1905. — Mr. F. 

 Merrifield, President, in the chair. — Mr. J. Butterworth, B.Sc, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a series 

 of Xenarthra cervicornis, Baly, from Ceylon, and drew attention to 

 the curious structure of the antennae of the male, that of the female 

 being simple. — Mr. G. T. Porritt, specimens of Tephroda consonaria, 

 ab. nigra, and melanic examples of Boarmia consortaria, all from a 

 wood in West Kent, by Mr. E. Goodwin. These forms were exactly 

 on the same lines as the melanism in West Yorkshire, and it is 

 curious they should occur in such widely separate localities. The two 

 genera, however, are evidently prone to melanism, as Mr. Porritt 

 stated that he had now seen black or almost black specimens of all the 

 British species except Tephrosia punctnlata. — Commander J. J. Walker 

 (1) two specimens of the very rare Staphylinid, Medou cnstanens, Grav., 

 taken in the Oxford district during the last week of April, 1905 ; (2) 

 severtil examples of both sexes of the giant flea tiystnchopsi/lla talpcB, 

 Curtis, from field-mouse nests in the same district ; and (3) the type- 

 specimen of the Bostrichid beetle, Dinodenis ocellaris, Steph. (taken 

 by the late Prof. Westwood at " Little Chelsea " previous to 1830), 

 from the Hope Collection at Oxford. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 read a note on '' Heliotropism in Pararqe and Pyrameis," communi- 

 cated by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.D.— Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 

 communicated a paper on '• The Structure and Life History of Psychoda 

 aexpmictata, Curtis," by John Alexander Dell, B.Sc. — Dr. D. H. Hut- 

 chinson gave an address on " The Three-colour Process as applied to 

 Insect Photography," illustrated by lantern slides of British and 

 Indian Rhopalocera, the exhibits showing a marked advance in excel- 

 lence upon any yet shown at the Society's meetings. The President, 

 at the close of the proceedings, heartily congratulated Dr. Hutchinson 

 upon the results of his work. — H. Eowland-Bkown, M.A., Ho7i. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 April ISth. — Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Winkworth, of Burdett Road, E. ; Mr. Wright, of Woolwich; 

 and Mr. Penn Gaskill, of Wandsworth Common, were elected mem- 

 bers. — Mr. Harrison, living larvae of Ay rods ashworthii from North 

 Wales. — Mr. West, Lebia cyanocephala and L. chlorocephala from Box 

 Hill. — Mr. Edwards, a number of species of the South American 

 groups of Papilio, Rndopoyon, Hectorides and Parides, — Mr. Kaye, long 

 series of Heliconius numata, showing extensive variations, in the hind 

 wings particularly; and also pairs of H. sylvana and H.novatus (?) ; all 

 were from British Guiana. — Mr. Turner, cases of Cleophora saturatella 



