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specimen taken in Bloomsbury Street, London, and Mr. Stainton 

 added that specimens already existed in the collections of Mr. F. 

 Bond and Mr. A. F. Sheppard. In 1869 the capture of three or four 

 specimens in the shop of a herbalist in Holborn was announced, and 

 in 1873 one was taken from a shop window in Oxford Street. Six 

 years later another was taken in Cannon Street, City ; and from that 

 time it does not seem to have been noticed here until 1898, when 

 Mr. Selwyn Image had the good fortune to secure a specimen in 

 Soutliampton Eow, Bloomsbury. Thus all the recorded British 

 specimens seem to have occurred within an area of from one to two 

 square miles in the Metropolis. On the Continent it is said to have 

 quite the same habit, being found in and about houses, and espe- 

 cially herb warehouses." I am indebted to Mr. Edward Meyrick, 

 F.B.S., for his kindness in identifying the specimens, and for the 

 suggestion that the capture should be put on record. — C. Granville 

 Clutterbuck; Heathville Boad, Gloucester, March 18th, 1910. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, February 2nd, 

 1910.— Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the chair.— The 

 President announced that he had nominated as Vice-Presidents for 

 the Session 1910-1911 Professor T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.R.S.E. ; 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.Z.S. ; and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, M.A. 

 —Mr. Edward Morrell Holmes, of Ruthven, Sevenoaks ; Mr. E. G. 

 Josephs, of Lincoln College, Oxford ; Mr. Ernest Cooper Joy, of 

 2, St. Kilda's Road, Stoke Newington, N. ; Mr. John W. Ward, of 

 Rusinurbe House, Somerset Road, Coventry ; and Mr. Frank C. 

 Willcocks, Entomologist to the Khedivial Agricultural Society, of 

 Cairo, Egypt, were elected Fellows of the Society. — Dr. M. Burr 

 gave an account of the Entomological Congress to be held at Brussels 

 in August next, and appealed to all Fellows for their support, as 

 well as to the local Natural History Societies throughout the United 

 Kingdom ; and Dr. K. Jordan gave an outline of the sectional 

 programme of papers already arranged. — The Secretary having read a 

 letter from the Entomological Society of Russia, inviting the Society 

 to send a delegate to the forthcoming Jubilee Celebration in St. Peters- 

 burg, it was resolved unanimously to send a letter of congratulation 

 to the Society in honour of the occasion. — Mr. John Alderson, who 

 was present as a visitor, exhibited the results of six weeks' collecting 

 in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, in May and June last, representa- 

 tive in all of one hundred and two species of Rhopalocera. — Mr. 

 E. E. Green sent for exhibition boxes designed for the convenient 

 storage of butterflies in paper envelopes, together with the original 

 model as made by a local tinsmith in Ceylon. — Dr. K. Jordan 

 exhibited two specimens of the earwig, Arixenia esau, lately described 

 by him in Nov. ZooL, p. 313, PL xvi-xviii (1909). The insect was 

 discovered in the breast-pouch of a specimen of the naked bat 

 obtained in Sarawak. Under the microscope were shown the man- 



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