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The Lepidoptera of Gibraltar. — I have read with interest Mr. 

 Sowerby's short list of Lepidoptera collected near Gibraltar in March 

 aud April (p. 214), but the dates are so extraordinarily early for some 

 of the species mentioned that I cannot help thinking there must be a 

 mistake of identification in several cases. Commander J. J. Walker, 

 R.N., in his " Notes on Lepidoptera from the Region of the Straits of 

 Gibraltar " (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1890, pp. 361-391) has thoroughly 

 worked out the butterflies of the Rock and neighbourhood, but I can 

 find no mention of Erebia tyndarus — which is a mountain species not 

 found at Albarracin I think, either by Mrs. Nicholl, Miss Fountaine, or 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon — emerging as a rule not earlier than mid-July ; 

 and I can only conclude that Mr. Sowerby has confused it with Epine- 

 phele pasiphae, which he does not mention, though it occurs at the end 

 of April at Gibraltar. Again, Satyrus statilinus is scarcely to be 

 expected before July, and the same may be said of 5. briseis, S. arethusa, 

 and of S. circe, the record of which latter species in March or April at 

 3000 ft. is wonderful ; the more so as apparently the species is reported 

 from Gibraltar for the first time. I suspect, too, that Mr. Sowerby 

 has mistaken Melanargia ines, Hfsgg. (= thetis, Hiibn.), for M. lachesis 

 as the date suggests. The type Chrysophanus virgaurea has not hitherto 

 been reported from South Spain at all, the var. miegii, Vogel, accord- 

 ing to Staudinger, not extending beyond the central regions. Perhaps 

 the title of Mr. Sowerby's note requires amendment as to date ; no 

 doubt he will explain. — H. Rowland-Brown ; Oxhev Grove, Harrow 

 Weald, October 19th, 1907. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 2nd, 1907. 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, President, in the chair. — Mr. J. A. D. Perrins, 

 Junior, of Davenham, Malvern, and Mr. Frank Milburn Howlett, of 

 the Agricultural Department, Pusa, Bengal, India, were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. — The Rev. F. D. Morice gave an account of his recep- 

 tion as the representative of the Society, and of the celebrations at the 

 University of Upsala, and at the Academy of Science of Stockholm, at 

 which he was present. — Commander J. J. Walker showed living 

 specimens of the heteromerous beetle Sitaris muralit, first rediscovered 

 at Oxford in 1903 by Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Oxford University 

 Museum, and found rather freely during September 1906 and 1907, 

 on old stone walls in the vicinity of Oxford inhabited by the Mason 

 Bee, Podalirius (Anthophora) pilipes, on which it is parasitic in its 

 early stages. — Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited black specimens of both 

 sexes of Fidonia atomaria from the Harden Moss Moors, Huddersfield, 

 illustrating the melanic tendency of Lepidoptera in the district. — Mr. 

 H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited Apion semivittatum taken on Mercxiri- 

 alis annua at Deal in August and September 1907 ; Magdalis duplicata 

 from Nethy Bridge in July 1907, the first record of the species for 

 Scotland ; Formica sanguinea from Aviemore and Nethy Bridge in July 

 1907, the first record for Scotland ; and Piezostethus fonnicetorum , taken 

 with Formica rufa at Rannoch, in July, a species which has not been 



