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Dragonflies : — There was no appreciable diminiition in the num- 

 bers of the district, species, except in the case of yEschna (/ramiis. 

 Why this dragonfly should have been comparatively scarce it is 

 difficult to say.— J. Arkle ; Chester, Feb. 17th, 1905. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — June 1th, 1905. — Mr. F. 

 Merrifiield, President, in the chair. — Herr Ludvig von Gangelbauer, 

 of the Vienna Museum, was elected an Honorary Fellow; and Mr. 

 Charles J. Grist, of " Apsley," Banstead, Surrey; Mr. Vernon Parry 

 Kitchen, of the Priory, Watford, Herts ; and the Eev. W. Mansell 

 Merry, M.A., of St. Michael's, Oxford, were elected a Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. M. Burr exhibited an earwig, Apterygida arachidis, 

 Yers., found by Mr. Annandale, of Calcutta, in a box of specimens 

 received from the Andaman Islands. When placed in a small box, 

 it was alone, but next morning there were five larvae present ; two 

 disappeared, apparently being consumed by the parent ; and the 

 remaining three were those exhibited. — Mr. Burr also showed a 

 locustid of the family Pseudophyllidfe from Queensland, taken among 

 twigs and plants which it greatly resembled, together with a photo- 

 graph of the insect in its natural position. — Mr. E. C. Bedwell showed 

 three examples of Gnorinms nobilis, L., taken at Woolwich; and a 

 malformed specimen of Lochmcea snturalis which had the left posterior 

 tibia bifid for about one-third of its length, and two tarsi, one of which 

 had the joints considerably enlarged. — Mr. 0. E. Janson brought for 

 exhibition a living specimen of Oinophlus betake, Herbst, a beetle not 

 known to occur in Britain, found by his son near Covent Garden, and 

 probably imported. — Mr. W, J. Lucas exhibited one male and three 

 females of Agrion armatum taken this year by Mr. F. Balfour Browne, 

 and sent to him alive. — Mr. G. C. Champion showed four specimens 

 of the rare Acrognathus mandibularis, Gyll., captured on the wing 

 towards sunset near Woking at the end of May. — Mr. Selwyn Image 

 exhibited two aberrations of Bistort hirtaria, CI., both females, taken 

 at rest on tree-trunks at Mortehoe, North Devon, April 23rd, 1905. 

 The first aberration was tolerably normal in general coloration, but 

 the anterior half of the fore wings was much suffused with fuscous, 

 and at the costa broadly emphasized with rich black. The second 

 aberration was semi-transparent black all over both fore and hind 

 wings, the veins strongly delineated with black, powdered with 

 ochreous. — Mr. W. J. Kaye showed a number of empty pupa-cases of 

 Zoiiosonia pendularia to demonstrate the wide variation of methods in 

 the placing of the silken girth round the pupa. — Professor E. B. Poul- 

 ton, F.K.S., exhibited leaves of strawberry, Berberis japonica, and 

 cherry-laurel, which had been sent to him by Mr. W. B. Grove, of 

 Handsworth, Birmingham. The leaves had been attacked by a minute 

 fungus, which, in the case of the Berberis, had been identified by Prof. 

 S. H. Vines, F.R.S., as Phyllosticta japonica, Thnem. The attack 

 was local, and followed by the death and disappearance of the central 

 portion of the leaf-tissue of each patch, leaving a roundish or oval 



