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day. — EoBT. S. Smith, June. ; The Laurels, Downham Market, 

 Norfolk. 



Palimpsestis (Cymatophoea) octogesima in London Distbict. 

 — On July ilth, 1907, and again this year, June 13th, I had the 

 pleasure of capturing this moth here ; hoth specimens were taken 

 at sugar, not on poplar trees. — M. F. Bliss ; Coningsburgh, Ealing, W. 



Celastbina (Cyanieis) aegiolus in Middlesex. — I am glad to 

 say that after an absence of six years C. argiolus has turned up again 

 in our garden during the second fortnight of May, flying around the 

 flowering holly-trees in some numbers. It appears also to have been 

 generally common in this part of Middlesex, and I have seen several 

 in the gardens of Woodridings, Pinner, and Eastcote, while just over 

 the border, at Eastbury, in Oxhey Woods, it was appearing singly 

 among the wild hyacinths on the 22nd. I may add that I have 

 never seen an example of the autumn generation here, though we 

 have plenty of flowering ivy. The common butterflies, P. brassiccs, 

 P. rajjce, and C. pami^hilus have never been so abundant in my 

 recollection. — H. Eowland-Beown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald, 

 June 20th, 1909. 



Panchloea nivea, L. — A specimen of this pretty cockroach was 

 brought, in the beginning of this month, from Jamaica to Cupar, 

 among bananas. It w^as exceedingly lively when I got it. One 

 could not but admire how closely it was adapted to its environment. 

 A little less than the " blackbeetle " of our kitchens, it was hardly 

 thicker than a playing-card, of a pale green, with transparent teg- 

 mina of a lighter shade. It would be seen with difficulty in the 

 crevices of the plant. The specimen has been identified by Mr. 

 Grimshaw, of the Boyal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, where it is 

 placed for preservation. — Heney H. Bbown ; Cupar Fife, June 19th, 

 1909. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May 6th, 1909. 

 —Dr. E. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair. — Mr. S. A. 

 Neave exhibited three specimens of a remarkable ffistrid fly belonging 

 to the genus SjMthicera, Corti, captured on the carcase of a rhinoceros 

 shot by him near Fort Jameson, N.E. Ehodesia, in February, 1908. 

 He pointed out the extreme rarity of individuals of this genus in the 

 imago state, though CEstrid larvse had long been known and frequently 

 recorded in the intestinal canal of Bhinoceros hicomis, and recenth' 

 Prof. Sjostedt had succeeded in rearing one individual from a larva, 

 described by him under the name Meruensis. This seemed also to be 

 the first recorded occasion on which the adult insect had actually 

 been observed to be following the rhinoceros, and it was of some 

 interest in this connection that both sexes were represented (two 

 males, one female). — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe brought for exhibition 

 examples of Formica ezsecta, Nyl., from Parkhurst Forest, Isle of 

 Wight, and from the same locality Dinarda hagensi, Wasm., hitherto 

 only observed (with the same ant) in Britain at Bournemouth by the 



