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before hatching. I started them on birch, but in spite of every care 

 they rapidly dwindled in numbers. Later I sleeved some on apple, 

 but only a few fed up properly. In the end I have but fifteen pupae 

 from over two hundred eggs. 



On May 6th I joined Mr. A. L. Rayward in the morning at Box- 

 hill to beat for Boarmia abietaria larvae, but we soon discovered from 

 the battered appearance of the trees that we had been forestalled by 

 someone evidently possessed of a strong arm and thick stick. On 

 comparing notes at the end of four hours' continuous work, we found 

 we had just a dozen larvae apiece, and a few of other species. Lithosia 

 deplana larvae were beaten in some number, but we did not take many, 

 as it is almost impossible to breed the moths when the larvae are taken 

 young. We subsequently beat a few juniper-bushes, and secured a lot 

 of Eupithecia sobrinata larvae. These soon spun up in moss, and the 

 moths emerged from July 27th onwards. 



I was rather anxious to rear Euchloe cardamines from the egg, and 

 caught a female at St. Albans on May 13th. This I placed in a cage 

 with some hedge-mustard, and kept in the sun. The butterfly did not 

 begin to lay till the 19th, and then only a few eggs were deposited. 

 The first hatched on the 24th, and the others shortly after. They 

 began feeding well, but, owing to cannibalism or some other cause, 

 only one reached the pupa state on June 24th. 



On June 3rd, in the Wye Valley, I found about forty Tmniocampa 

 miniosa larvae on a twig of oak. They were then half an inch long, 

 and fed up very rapidly on oak, commencing to pupate on June 19th. 

 On June 4th, in the same locality, I took about twenty larvae of Sylepta 

 (Botys) nivalis from a bed of nettles. These all pupated in a few days. 

 The pupa is five-eigbths of an inch long, slender, very shiny black, 

 abdomen pointed. The moths began to emerge July 3rd. 



The moths resulting from the Boarmia abietaria larvae mentioned 

 above emerged between June 24th and the middle of July — two males 

 and six females, nearly all of a very dark form. 



Several of the Taeniocampidae were reared from the egg to the 

 pupa state, but failures were experienced with Melanippe hastata, 

 Ephyra punctaria, Epione advenaria, and others. — Philip J. Barraud ; 

 Bushey Heath, Herts. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November 1th, 

 1906.— Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the chair.— Mr. Gerard H. 

 Gurney, Keswick Hall, Norwich ; Mr. Harold Armstrong Fry, P.O. 

 Box 46, Johannesburg, Transvaal Colony ; Mr. Frederick Albeit 

 Mitchell-Hedges, 42, Kensington Park Gardens, London, W. ; Mr. 

 Gordon Merriman, Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; Mr. Percy A. H. 

 Muschamp, 20, Chemin des Asters, Geneva ; and Mr. Oswin S. 

 Wickar, Crescent Cottage, Cambridge Place, Colombo, Ceylon, were 

 elected fellows of the Society. — Mr. H. J. Lucas exhibited a photograph 

 of Panorpa germanica, practically immaculate, taken at Tongue, 

 Sutherlandshire, and a typical form for comparison, corresponding 

 apparently to the borealis of Stephens. He also showed a series of 



