230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— April ISth, 1911.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Miss Alderoon, F.E.S., of Worksop, was elected a mem- 

 ber. — Mr. Ashdown exhibited about one hundred species of conspicuous 

 coleoptera taken by him in Switzerland during July, 1910. — Mr. 

 Turner, living specimens of Aga-panthia asphodelas, sent to him by 

 Dr. Chapman from Hyeres. — Mr. Adkin, an undetermined Agrotid 

 from the Isle of Lewis, a Sciaphila from Unst, probably referable to 

 <S'. colquhounana, and a Pyrameis carded in which the row of spots on 

 the hind wings were united into an irregular blotch. — -Mr. Newman, 

 on behalf of Mr. Oliver, a bred series oi Aphantopiis hyperanthus which 

 had emerged in January and February. The larvae had fed all the 

 winter on Poa annua. — Mv. Hemming, series of Brenthis selenc from 

 Warwick and Sussex ; the former were a much larger race in both 

 sexes. 



April 27th, 1911.— The President in the chair.— Mr. P. A. Buxton, 

 of Tollbridge, was elected a member. — Mr. Tonge exhibited a pupa 

 case of JEgcria andrenceformis as found in situ, projecting from the 

 burrow after the emergence of the imago. He had found four such 

 cases in nature. — Mr. Kaye, a similar exhibit with the living imago 

 which had emerged in confinement, and a fine plant of the Mexican 

 orchid, Cattleya citrina, in flower. — Mr. R. Adkin, a remarkable 

 gynandrous specimen of Bomhyx quercus, with left antenna and wings 

 male and right antenna and wings female, but of the male colour. It 

 was from the Capper collection. — Mr. Newman, a larva of Callimorpha 

 dominula, black in colour without the yellow markings. — Mr. Andrews, 

 two examples of the recently identified dipteron Hilaria aeronctha 

 from North Kent. — Mr. St. Aubyn, photographs of Lepidoptera at 

 rest. — Mr. Gough, a dwarf example of Celastrina argiolus.— Messrs. 

 Edwards and Turner, several species of Papilio from North America, 

 from the machaon and glaucus groups. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs gave an ac- 

 count of the arrangements for the South Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies Congress at St. Albans in June. — Mr. Dennis showed lantern 

 slides of lichens and flowers. — Mr. Main showed a series of lantern 

 slides illustrating his observations on the life- history of the common 

 myriapod. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Secretary. 



City of London Entomological Society. — April ith, 1911. — 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited series of Noctua haia and Gidaria 

 imvianata taken in Epping Forest in July, 1910, at rush blossom, on 

 an occasion when sugar failed to attract Lepidoptera. 



April 18th, 1911. — Mr. Huggins, two specimens of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, with black nervures on hind wings. He also exhibited 

 a somewhat dark example of Ennomos alniaria from Gravesend, and 

 stated that the species seemed to be getting gradually darkei" in that 

 district. — Mr. J. Riches, fifteen bred specimens of Macrothylacia 

 ruhi, all that emerged from a brood of about forty larvae. — Mr. V. B. 

 Shaw, a long series of Triphcena comes bred August, 1903, ex Findhorn 

 ova, including vars. clarkii, nigrescens, pallida, rufescens, and curtisii, 

 and also forms intermediate between clarkii-nigrescens and ^;a^Z«f?a- 

 rufescens. 



