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miniosa was extremely abundant in the Northants woods this year, 

 and I took some very unusual varieties of T. viunda. Apochei7na 

 hispidaria taken near Bedford Purlieux on March 18th seems a new 

 locality. I believe it is not previously recorded in the district. — 

 C. Mellows ; Brasenose College, Oxford. 



AcHEEONTiA ATEOPOS IN May. — On the evening of the 10th inst. 

 a working-man brought me one of these moths, which had ju$t 

 settled on his trousers below the knee, and had then run up his leg 

 as he was walking in the street. When he caught it in his hand he 

 said "it squeaked just like a mouse," and he was rather afraid of it. 

 However, he took it home and placed it under a tumbler, and then 

 brought it to me. It was a male, and rather a fine dark one, and 

 would have been quite perfect but for a piece chipped out of one of 

 its hind wings, doubtless by its captor. I kept it in a breeding-cage 

 all night, and released it the next evening as soon as it began to move 

 about, and it looked like a small bird as it flew off in the gloom. 

 The species is not often seen at this time of the year in Britain. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, May 12th, 1909. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March nth, 

 1909.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.— Capt. 

 E. Bagnell-Purefoy, The Cottage, East Farleigh, Maidstone ; Mr. 

 Stanley A. Blenkarn, 44, Eomola Eoad, Tulse Hill, S.E. ; Mr. Leonard 

 Box, the Floral Nurseries, Hailsham, Sussex, and 28, St. James's 

 Street, Bedford Eow, W.C. ; Mr. Henry Britten, Prospect House, 

 Salkeld Dykes, Penrith; the Eev. C. E. N. Burrows, of Mucking 

 Vicarage, Stanford-le-Hope ; and Mr. W. A. Eollason, " Lamorna," 

 Truro, were elected Fellows of the Society. — M. A. Janet, member 

 of the Entomological Society of France, and M. Severin, member 

 of the Entomological Society of Belgium, were present as visitors. 

 — Mr. H. Eowland-Brown exhibited two extreme forms of Chryso- 

 phanus phlceas from Norwegian Finmarken and the Mediterranean 

 region, drawing attention to the apparent identity of the form from 

 Arctic Europe — hypophlceas — with the species described as ameri- 

 canus from North America. He also showed series of Plebems argyro- 

 gnomon, Brgstr. taken by him at Alten and Abisko, Swedish Lap- 

 land ; P. argus var. Corsica from Corsica ; and P. argus, approaching 

 var. Bella, H. S., from Digne, Basses-Alpes. — Mr. H. Hamilton 

 Druce also brought for exhibition examples of Plebeius argus, L., 

 taken by him in various localities in Eussia. — Mr. G. Meade-Waldo 

 . exhibited a gynandromorphous example of Euchloe cardamiyies, bred 

 from a larva found at Hever, Kent. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten brought for 

 exhibition stereoscopic photographs of the anal segments of Ccenobia 

 rufa, female, showing the spines which are driven into the dead stems 

 of Juncus lamprocarpus during oviposition. — Mr. W. Schmassman 

 showed, on behalf of Mr. H. Welte, a curiously marked female of 

 Chrysop)hanus hippothoc from Goeschenen, Switzerland. The black 

 spots, forming the marginal row on the under side of the two 



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