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very unfavourable weather, the results are not unsatisfactory. Litho- 

 stege griseata was taken, both by beating herbage during the day and 

 during its flight at dusk, and was in fine condition. It is, in my ex- 

 perience, never abundant, and very local. I flushed a single speci- 

 men from a small patch of waste land round a haystack on each of 

 three days — June 1st, 14th, and 15th— all fresh and perfect. Cer- 

 tainly it emerges at intervals over a long period, as on the night of 

 June 15th I took a female drying its wings after leaving the pupa. 

 Besides this, the following insects were seen or taken: — -A. j^si, 

 L. comma, L. imllens (very abundant), X. rurea (one fine whitish- 

 grey form), X. lithoxylea, N. sajjonaria, M. sordida, M. alhicolon (the 

 Brecksand form is consistently darker than the usual coast type), 

 C. morpheus, B. tenebrosa, A. vestigialis (quite a typical form), 

 A. segctum, A. exclamationis, N. f estiva, D. capsincola, D. caiyoj^haga 

 (pale buff-coloured), H. serena (common on fir-trunks), A. advena, 

 H. tripartita, P. gamma, P. iota, P. chrijsitis, H. uncida (a single 

 specimen in marshy ground J, B. repandata (darker and less grey than 

 the Cambridge form), E. pendidaria, C. exantJiemaria, B. taminata, 

 P. flavofasciata, C. hilineata, and T. variata. Geometers, save for the 

 last-named, were very scarce. It is certainly a most interesting 

 district, and further study of its peculiar fauna seems likely to prove 

 scientifically valuable. — (Eev.) C. E. Eaven ; 4, Park Terrace, Cam- 

 bridge. 



The Entomological Club. — A meeting was held at the ' Hand 

 and Spear' Hotel, Weybridge, on July 10th, 1911, Mr. Geo. T. 

 Porritt in the chair. Mr. Eobert Adkin (O.M.) and Messrs A. H. 

 Jones (H.M.), A. Sich (H.M.), and nine other visitors were present. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May 3rd, 

 1911.— The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— The 

 President announced the death of two Fellows of the Society, 

 the Eev. Canon Cruttwell, and Mr. W. A. Eollason. He then in- 

 formed the Society that tlie authorities of the Science Museum had 

 persuaded the Government to allow them to take a portion of the land 

 belonging to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington for 

 the purpose of erecting new buildings of their owm, thereby pre- 

 cluding much-needed additions to the Natural History Museum, 

 especially in the Entomological Department, and on the motion of 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, seconded by Dr. Dixey, a protest was 

 unanimously passed by the Society, the position being explained by 

 both mover and seconder, and further comments being made by Mr. 

 C. O. Waterhouse and the Eev. G. Wheeler on the disastrous results 

 of such a proceeding to the Natural History Museum. Mr. H. 

 Eov^land-Brown then moved that " If a deputation be appointed to 

 wait on Mr. Eunciman with regard to this matter, the Officers and 

 Council of the Entomological Society desire to be represented on it." 

 This was seconded by Mr. Bethune-Baker and carried unanimously. 

 —Commander J. J. Walker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Geo. Brown 



