190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Note on Dianthcecia luteago var. ficklini. — Last year a female of 

 Dianthcecia iuteaijo var. ficklini, captured in Cornwall, deposited three 

 eggs in a chip box. The larva? hatched, and were fed on the flowers 

 of Silene maritima until the first moult, and having to leave the 

 district, I put them out on an isolated plant, and in November I got 

 the son of the people with whom I had stayed to dig up the whole 

 plant and search among the roots for pupa3. One was found, and the 

 moth, a female, emerged on the 14th inst. The colour of the larva, 

 when small, is a dirty white, with a well-developed plate on second 

 segment, and a brown head. The pupa is similar in colour and shape 

 to that of D. conspersa. — G. B. Oliver ; Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, 

 July 16th, 1907. 



Stauropus fagi in Warwickshire. — On June 15th 1 took a fine 

 female specimen of this moth, at 6 p.m., at rest on a sycamore trunk 

 in Princethorpe Wood, near Rugby. I believe this to be the first 

 imago of this species taken in Warwickshire, the only previous record 

 being a larva taken by a Rugby schoolboy some years ago. — Hubert 

 Langley ; Narborough House, Leamington. 



Papilio machaon in North Lincolnshire. — I have to note the 

 occurrence of Papilio machaon near the shore at Tetney, North 

 Lincolnshire, in July, 1906. — F. W. Sowerby, R.N. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Thursday, May 23rd, 1907. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Brown exhibited (1), varieties of Trachea piniperda from 

 Oxshott, in some the red markings were dominant and in others the 

 green; (2), a dark Agrotis exclamationis from Folkestone; and (3), 

 a very light A. puta from Deal. — Mr. Ashby, a long series of the ant- 

 beetle, Thanasimus formicarius, from Oxshott, where it had occurred 

 commonly. 



Thursday, June 13th, the President in the chair. — Mr. West, of 

 Greenwich, exhibited the rare Coleopteron, Triplax lacordairei, and the 

 uncommon Hemipteron, Verlusia rhomboidea, both from Darenth. — Mr. 

 Tonge, a living larva of Issoria latona, reared from an ovum sent from 

 Hyeres by Dr. Chapman. — Mr. Henry J. Turner, a specimen of Tinea 

 cloacella just taken in Greenwich Park, and the living larvae of 

 Coleophora discordella, sent by Mr. Wilkenson, of Workington. — Dr. 

 Chapman, (1) living larvae of Calocampa exoleta, and remarked on 

 their curious custom of feeding on stale food-plant ; and (2), varieties 

 of Papilio machaon, in one of which the costa of the fore wings was 

 much more arched than usual towards the apex, and in the other the 

 black inner line of the dark submarginal band was wanting and 

 the black basal circle of the ocellus was absent. Several species 

 of larvae were noted as having the same habit as C. exoleta and in 

 their final instars voluntarily changing their pabulum. 



June 27th, the President in the chair. — Mr. Sich reported he 



