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have bred it from a pairing of the "Dover form." — Geo. T. Poreitt J 

 Bhn Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield, February 10th, 1909. 



Theronia atalant^, Poda, as British. — I have seen a fine 

 female of this species in the British Museum, which was captured 

 " near Eamsgate, September, 1891," but the identity of the captor is 

 doubtful (c/. my ' Ichneumons of Britain,' iii. 51). This distinct 

 and handsome species, which preys mainly upon Ehopalocera, may 

 now be considered as certainly indigenous to our fauna. — Claude 



MORLEY. 



The Entomological Club. — Since the last report (Entom. xli. 

 229) meetings of this Club were held at 58, Kensington Mansions, 

 South Kensington, on December 8th, 1908, and in the Council Cham- 

 ber of the Holborn Eestaurant on January 19th, 1909. 



On the date first mentioned Mr. Horace St. John K. Donisthorpe 

 was in the chair, and the other members present were Messrs. E. 

 Adkin, H. Eowland-Brown, and G. H. Verrall ; the additional guests 

 numbered fourteen. At this meeting Mr. Eowland-Brown proposed 

 that Mr. A. H. Jones be elected an Honorary Member of the Club ; 

 this having been seconded by Mr. Donisthorpe was carried. 



At the Holborn meeting, which is recognized as the " Annual " of 

 the Club, Mr. G. H. Verrall occupied the chair, as it has been his 

 wont to do at about the same date for the past twenty-two years. 

 Other members present were Messrs. E. Adkin, H. St. John K. Donis- 

 thorpe, and T. W. Hall ; and of other entomologists invited as guests 

 nearly seventy attended. After supper the chairman, in proposing 

 the toast of the "Entomological Club," made some apt remarks on 

 the seeming lack of workers and students in British insects other than 

 Lepidoptera. Later on, in replying to the toast of " Our Host," 

 which was proposed by Dr. Dixey and acclaimed with musical 

 honours by the guests, Mr. Verrall mentioned that biographical 

 details of some past members of the Club were still wanted to com- 

 plete the set of memoirs in course of preparation. 



(For list of past and present members of the Entomological Club, 

 see p. 63). — Eichaed South, Hon. Sec. 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD REPOETS. 



Early Appearance of Eupithecia pumilata. — A specimen of 

 this pretty little moth was found to-day at rest on the wall of an up- 

 stairs passage in this house, not far from a landing-window, through 

 which it must have flown, probably attracted by an adjacent gaslight. 

 This is a remarkably early date, but the weather for the past three or 

 four weeks has been so abnormally changeable that one is scarcely 

 surprised at it. After a week's hard frost, at the end of December, 

 the New Year commenced with a spell of mild weather, which lasted 

 until January 19th, when frost set in again, and went on until the end 

 of the month, the last three or four days being very severe. Then on 

 February 1st it became suddenly very mild, the thermometer for three 



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