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is slightly larger than normal, and of a unicoloi'ous black, absolutely 

 devoid of all markings ; the wings are thinly scaled, as is usual with 

 the female of this species. Mr. Prout has kindly given me the 

 following information regarding this uncommon form of liirtaria. 

 He says : " I find in Oberthiir's ' Etudes de Lepidopterologie Com- 

 paree ' there is a figure of a unicolorous black female liirtaria from 

 Silesia, and there is one equally unicolorous, but not quite as extreme 

 (with a brownish tinge), in the British Museum collection from 

 England. It is called by Oberthiir ab. fumaria, Haw, and is men- 

 tioned by that name in one or two other books." I might add that 

 the whole of the insect — body, legs, and antennge — is jet black. — 

 B. S. William ; 77, Durham Eoad, E. Finchley, N. 



Hibernation (?) op Pyrambis atalanta. — In view of Mr. 

 Corbet's note in your last issue (p. 151), it may be of interest to record 

 that I saw and watched for some time a worn P. atalanta flitting about 

 in the flower garden here on March 23rd. — E. E. Studd ; Oxton, 

 Exeter. 



EucHLOE CARDAMINES Two Years IN PuPA. — On October 20th 

 last (Entom. xlvi. p. 317) I brought to your notice a very late 

 emergence of E. carclamines. I have now the pleasure to report an 

 instance of a butterfly, a female, from the same brood of larvae 

 remaining in the pupal state for two winters. These larvse were 

 given me by my friend, the Rev. Gilbert H. Raynor, on June 20th, 

 1912, and the insect referred to emerged yesterday morning, the 

 20th inst. — B. W. Nbave ; Lyndhurst, 95, Queen's Road, Browns- 

 wood Park, N., May 21st, 191i. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, April 1st, 

 1914.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mrs. Maria Ernestina Walsh, Soekaboemi, Java ; Messrs. 

 J. P. Ramakrishna Aiyar, B.A., F.Z.S., The Agricultural College, 

 Coimbatore, South India ; Eugene Bendefitter, 11, Rue St. Jacques, 

 Le Mans, France ; Rev. Prebendary Edward Grose Hodge, The 

 Vicarage, Paddington ; A. J. T. Janse, 1st Street, Gezina, Pretoria, 

 South Africa ; Charles Nicholson, 35, The Avenue, Hale End, Ching- 

 ford, N.E. ; Frederic de la Mare Norris, B.Sc, The Agricultural 

 Department, Kuala Lumpur, Malay States, were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited some specimens of the 

 genus Curetis from the Tring Museum, to illustrate a point in 

 mimicry, and read notes upon them. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of 

 Pierinae from Western China, with drawings of their scent-scales, and 

 remarked on them. — Mr. 0. E. Janson, both sexes of a new Pajjilio 

 belonging to the gambrisius group and apparently most nearly allied 

 to P. ormenus, Gu6r., also the rare Papilio gabrielis, Roths., both 

 recently received from the Admiralty Islands. — Mr. Donisthorpe, a 

 small nest of the ant Cremastogaster schenki, Forel, from Madagascar, 



