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but was not so fortunate in regard to weather. It was decidedly 

 colder, especially at night, than it had been at Easter. By working 

 along the railway and river-banks I secured a fair number of Euclidia 

 glyphica, and also observed Argynnis euphrosyne, Nisoniades tages, 

 Syrichthus malva, Lycana icarus, Euchloe cardamines. A few strongly- 

 marked Pieris napi were netted, but were all males. 



By beating and searching, odd specimens of Abraxas ulmata, Venilia 

 metadata, Minoa murinata, Melanippe hastata, Ennychia octomaadata, 

 and others were taken. After dark I used to tramp the woods with 

 an acetylene lamp, but captures were very few and far between, and 

 only included such things as Nwneria pidveraria, Tephrusia punctu- 

 laria, Cidaria snjf'umata, Epione advenaria, and others not worthy of 

 mention. — Philip J. Barraud ; Bushey Heath, Herts, November 9th, 

 1907. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, November 6th, 

 1907. — Mr. E. Saunders, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 G. Arnold, University of Liverpool ; Mr. H. Frederick D. Bartlett, of 

 113, Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth; Mr. John Claude Fortescue 

 Fryer, B.A., of The Priory, Chatteris ; Mr. C. W. Howard, of the 

 Acting Government, Transvaal ;' Mr. Charles H. Mortimer, of Wig- 

 more, Holmwood ; Mr. R. F. H. Rosenberg, of 57. Haverstock Hill, 

 London, N.W.; Mr. Harold Baker Sly, of Brackley Knoll Road, 

 Sidcup, Kent ; and Mr. Clement H. Pead, of Johannesburg and 

 St. Leonards Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. — Mr. A. H. Jones brought for exhibition a specimen of the 

 Longicorn beetle, Acanthocinus cedilis, L., a common Rannoch species, 

 found in Gray's Inn Road. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited male and 

 female specimens of a new Pi?iacopteryx, discovered by Mr. S. A. Neave 

 in Northern Rhodesia. The female resembled that of P. rubrobasalis, 

 but the male was quite distinct. Both sexes of P. rubrobasalis and the 

 female sex of Mr. Neave's species were mimics of Myloihris agathina. — 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon showed a series of Limenitis populi and ab. tremulce 

 with intermediate forms taken this year at Laon (Aisne), and a series 

 of Chrysophanus hippotlw'e from the same region, the females displaying 

 a wide range of variation for so restricted a locality as that in which 

 they were captured. — Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited a fully developed 

 example of Mesovelia furcata, M. & R., from Slapton, S. Devon, and 

 Thamnotrizon cinereus from Lynmouth, N. Devon. — Mr. A. Harrison 

 and Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a case of Aplecta nebulosa, arranged to 

 show the great range of variation of this species in Delamere Forest ; 

 with series from Epping Forest, North Cornwall, and the New Forest 

 for comparison. — Mr. R. S. Mitford exhibited two male specimens of 

 Cryptocephalus bipunctatus, taken by him at Niton in the Isle of Wight 

 in July, 1907, Undercliff, observing that the two forms were well- 

 known on the Continent, but that neither had been reported in Britain 

 before. He also showed Paracymus anew, Germ., captured on the 

 North Essex coast in June, 1898, thus establishing the claim of P. 



