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locally as " dew," held sway for a few days. On the 18th sugar on 

 the chfi" again attracted A. lunigera (2) and L. imtrescens (4), with a 

 whole host of common insects. On the 19th trees and flower-heads 

 were sugared, but nothing better than H. clerasa and T. batis, A. ru- 

 micis, &c., resulted. The 20th, 21st, and 22nd being cold, wet, and 

 windy in the main, no sugaring was attempted. Day-work produced 

 nothing of much interest. The only butterflies seen were A. aglaia, 



A. selene, E. tithonus, E.janira, C.pamphilus,H. sylvanus, H. thaumas, 

 L. agon, S. seviele, P. hrassicm, P. rapa, P. napi, V. urticce, and 

 V. cardui (worn) ; and of day-flying moths, M. stellatarum, and a 

 female E. rttssula (22nd). Collecting from the seed-capsules of the 

 various kinds of Silene resulted in a fair number of DiantJioicia larvae, 

 and other larvae taken included S. carpini, A. rumicis, N. ziczac, 



B. riibi, and E. p)idcliellata. I did not come across a single colony 

 of io larvae. I might perhaps, even at this late date, record that on 

 August 17th, 1898, I took a fine variety of P. cardui, in a clover- 

 field near Cadgwith. It is something like the var. that is, or used to 

 be, figured on the cover of Greene's ' Insect Hunter's Companion,' 

 though, if anything, rather more aberrant. Unfortunately it is some- 

 what worn. — E. Mannering ; 74, Bolsover Street, W. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 5th, 

 1910. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — The Secretary read the reply to the Address to the King 

 and to Queen Alexandra. — The President announced that the Conver- 

 sazione postponed from last May was unavoidably postponed until 

 next year. He also exhibited and passed round for inspection an 

 impression of the new seal of the Society, prepared from a design 

 made by Professor Selwyn Image, M.A., Slade Professor of Fine Art 

 in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society. — Mr 

 George William Vitalli de Ehe Philipe, of Calcutta ; and Dr. Charles 

 Ernest Lakin, M.D., M.K.C.S., F.E.C.S., of 2, Park Crescent, 

 Portland Place, W., were elected Fellows of the Society.- — -Mr. G. C. 

 Champion brought for exhibition two living examples of Melanophila 

 acuminata, captured at Woking on September 17th last. — Mr. E. A. 

 Butler exhibited specimens of three species of rare British Hemiptera, 

 viz. (a) Mesovelia /areata M. &, R., and (b) Cicadula cyance, Boh., 

 both from leaves of Potamogeton natans in Epping Forest ; and 

 (c) Cyrtorrhinus geminus, Flor., from Broxbourne — a recent addition 

 to the British list. He also exhibited living examples of Mesovelia 

 /areata, and drew attention to the extraordinarily rapid movements 

 of the species, which quite defy the eye. — Mr. A. H. Jones showed a 

 series of Pieris manni, males only, from the valleys of the lower 

 slopes of Mont Canigou, near Vernet-les-Bains, taken at the end of 

 June last, with examples of P. rapce, and P. ergane from Italy for 

 comparison. — Mr. P. J. Barraud brought for exhibition a case con- 

 taining Pieridae from the neighbourhood of Formia, Central Italy, 

 including Pieris rapa, L., and var. metra, Stephens ; Pieris manni. 



