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At Sturry I caught several Lithosia aureola, with the usual common 

 wood-frequenting Geometrae. At the Margate lamps Neuriasaponaria, 

 Melanippe galiata, Hemorophila abruptaria and other species occurred, 

 and I noticed that my son had caught specimens of Ennomos 

 autumnaria and E. fuscantaria in the same positions in the 

 preceding autumn. A visit to my old collecting grounds at Chinnor 

 at the very end of June found insects still scarce. However, I took 

 Lycana minima, Parasemia plantaginis and Ino geryon, but their 

 flight was apparently nearly over. Later, my son paid two visits 

 there and found Hesperia comma in its old haunts at Chinnor, and 

 Lyccena corydon in abundance at Princes Risborough. On arriving 

 at our home in Cornwall I began to look up Lyccena agon, which is 

 the most interesting West Cornwall butterfly. The varieties of the 

 females are almost protean, very dusty black, resembling L. minima, 

 and many blue mottled forms, in some the blue colouring extending 

 over almost the whole of the upper wings. A very fine male 

 specimen of Ghrysophanus phlaas var. radiata was secured, as well 

 as three good bleached forms of Epinephele ianira, and one Pararge 

 megcera with one hind wing mostly white, owing to absence of 

 pigment. Larvae of Eupithecia pulchellata in foxgloves and 

 Dianthoecia nana and D. capsincola in Silene were common. At the 

 end of September Agrotis suffusa and A. saucia, Epunda nigra and 

 E. lichenea, were plentiful at sugar, as well as a specimen each of 

 Percnoptilota fluviata and Xylina petrificata. — A. P. Spillek ; 

 Chinnor, Oxon, October 20th, 1913. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May 1th, 

 1913.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. Charles C. Best-Gardner, of Rookwood, Neath, Glamorgan, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society.— The President announced the 

 death of Mr. Herbert Druce, E.L.S. — Commander J. J. Walker ex- 

 hibited a series of Acalyptus carpini, Er., var. rufipennis, Gyll., a rare 

 weevil, taken on and about a sallow-bush at Weston-on-the-Green, 

 Oxon, in April, 1913. — The Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, an example 

 of Tceniocampa gracilis captured in April this year at Wood Walton 

 Een, Hunts. The specimen in question is white all over, without 

 any markings whatever. — Mr. Donisthorpe, a form of Lasius affinis, 

 Schenck, an ant new to Britain, of which he had found a colony at 

 Tenby, in South Wales, on the sandhills, on April 24th this year. — 

 Mr. H. Eltringham, a number of the scales composing the anal tuft 

 of Gnethocampa pityocampa, Schiff., remarkable as being the largest 

 scales known in any Lepidopterous insect. — Prof. Poulton, four males 

 and six females of Papilio polytes, L., captured March lOth-October 

 10th, 1912, by Capt. R. A. Craig, on Stonecutters' Island, in Hong 

 Kong harbour, about one mile from the mainland. All the females 

 were of the male-like form cyrus, Hubn. {—pammon, L.).— Prof. 

 Poulton read extracts from letters received from Dr. G. D. H. 

 Carpenter, telling of his success in obtaining, for the first time, 



