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(three) ; 30th (seven) = 16. — Eupithecia oblongata. 19th (two) ; 20th 

 (one); 27th (one); 30th (one) = 5. — LopJioptenjx camclina. 20th 

 (one). — Mesoleuca ocellata. 20th (one); 22nd (one) = 2. — Dianthcecia 

 capsincola. 20th (one); 21st (one) = 2. — D. carpopliaga. 20th (one); 

 21st (one) = 2. — Eupithecia jyygvicBata. 20th (one). — Dicranura vimila. 

 21st (one). — Gramviecia trilinea. 21st (two); 22nd (four); 23rd 

 (one); 28th (one); 29th (two); 30th (fourteen) = 24. — yl^miw 

 pilagiata. 21st (one); Q&ih.{onG) = '2,.—B'Usinatenehrosa. 21st (one); 

 29th (one) = 2. — Lampropteryx suffumata. 22nd (one). — Cilix 

 spinula. 22nd (one). — Lozogramma petraria. 22nd (one). — Hepialus 

 lupulina. 22nd (one); 28th (one) = 2. — Eupithecia pulcliellata. 22nd 

 (one). — Leucania comma. 22nd (one); 28th (three); 29th (two); 

 30th (one) ; 31st {ovie) = 'd.—Agrotis puta. 23rd (one) ; 29th (one) = 2. 

 —Plusia gamma. 26th (one) ; 27th (four) ; 28th (four) ; 29th (six) ; 

 30th (six); 31st (one) = 22. — Agrotis exclamationis . 28th (one); 30th 

 (five); 31st (one) = 7. — Phalena hucephala. 30th (one). — Xanthorho'd 

 montanata. 29th (one); 30th (one) = 2. — Ligdia marginata. 30th 

 (one). — CucuUia umbratica. 30th (one). — Mamestra pisi. 30th 

 (one).— E. M. Peideaux; Brasted Chart, Kent, June 16th, 1914. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— Jzme 11^/i.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.Sc, F.B.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. Dunster exhibited a short series of blue females of 

 Polyommatus icarus from Horsley. — Mr. Edwards, butterflies from 

 Costa Rica, New Granada, and Borneo. — Mr. W. West, the various 

 species of Coleoptera taken by himself in the New Forest in mid-May, 

 mainly from hawthorn blossom. — Mr. Curwen, about a dozen species 

 with various forms of Anthroceridce {Zygcenida) taken by him in 

 numerous holidays on the Continent. — Mr. Turner communicated a 

 note on the species of mite {Acarus) Tetranychus lintearius which 

 had recently been exhibited as causing devastation among gorse- 

 bushes. 



June 25th. — Mr. E, Step, E.L.S., in the chair. — Messrs. Blair and 

 Main, a number of interesting items collected by them during a 

 recent hoHday around Meiringen and Lugano, including (1) living 

 larvae of a Crioceris sp. on Bryony [Tamus communis) ; (2) a Polistes 

 gallica (living) on its nest; (3) living fireflies {Luciola italica) which 

 were " flashing " ; (4) a field cricket found by Mr. Ashdown ; (5) a 

 series of Cetonia stictica ; (6) specimens of Gnophos glaucinaria with 

 ova, &c. — Mr. Coulson, a long series of many degrees of blue 

 coloration of the females of Polyommatus icarus from Horsley and 

 several Goenonympha p)amphilus, one having a bipupillate apical spot, 

 and another with three well-developed eye-spots on the hind wings 

 above. 



Jtily 9th.— My. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Vice-president, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Newman exhibited living larvae of Gastropacha ilicifolia 

 and Celerio gallii, with the parent imagines of the former species, 

 together with a curiously suffused and obscure form of Dianthcecia 



