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Eucosoma (Catoptria) scopoliana, E. fulvana, E. expallidana, Elac- 

 hista atricomniella, E. nigrella, and E. subnigrella. The weather was 

 most unfavourable, rough winds and rain prevailing most of the 

 time. In fact August 10th was the only day during the fortnight 

 free from rain : it was brilliantly fine, and about the hottest day 

 experienced during a very disappointing summer. In conclusion, 

 my grateful thanks are due to Mr. Edward Meyrick, P.E.S., for 

 his kindness in identifying many of the species. — C. Granville 

 Cluttebuck, F.E.S. ; Heathside, Heathville Eoad, Gloucestershire, 

 November 13th, 1911. 



Erratum. — Entom. xliv. p. 381, 18th line from top, read : to the 

 posterior surface of the mesothorax, instead of posterior centre of 

 the anal segment, in next line. 



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Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October 18th, 

 1911. — ^The Kev. F. D. Morice, President, in the chair. — The following 

 gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr. Sidney Howard 

 Cotton, 1a, Chesterfield Street, Mayfair ; Captain J. J. Jacobs, E.E., 

 2, Southport Street, Gibraltar ; Mr. Kunui Khunan, M.A., Assistant 

 Entomologist to the Government of Mysore, Bangalore, South India ; 

 Dr. Ivan Clarkson Maclean, M.D., B.Sc, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 28, Hill 

 Street, Knightsbridge, S.W. ; Mr. Frank Taylor, The Technological 

 Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited a 

 pair of each of the following species : — Tachyris melania, Fabr., 

 T. celestina and Gatophaga ega, Boisd., and remarked that Fabricius's 

 type was preserved in the Banksian Cabinet, where it may still be 

 seen, and that Mr. G. A. Waterhouse has now sent home specimens 

 which are undoubtedly of the species described by Fabricius and 

 represented by Donovan, which is not a Gatophaga allied to ega ot 

 paulina, but a Tachyris belonging to the group which contains 

 T. celestina and T. nero. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a living larva of Golias 

 nastes var. loerdandi which he had bred from an ovum deposited by a 

 female captured at Abisko, in Swedish Lapland ; the natural food- 

 plant is Astragalus alpinus, L., but in captivity the larva fed upon 

 white clover. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, two specimens of Nemoptera 

 hipennis, Illig. {kcsitanica. Leach), taken by Mr. A. H. Jones; one in 

 the cork woods at Almorima, Spain, on May 5th, 1911, and the other 

 at Linea, Gibraltar, on the 28th ; also a specimen of Lertha barhara, 

 Klug. taken by Mr. H. Powell at Aflou, Oran, Algeria, on June 30th, 

 1911. Mr. Lucas also exhibited a large specimen of Sirex noctilio, 

 taken by himself at Leith Hill, Surrey, walking on the road, on 

 September 8th, 1911. — Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, a species of Coleo- 

 ptera new to Britain, Lesteva luctuosa, Fauvel, wlT,ich he had taken 

 in moss in a waterfall on the high ground in the Isle of Eigg, near 

 Mull, on September 17th, 1911.— Mr. H. M. Edelsten showed some 

 bred specimens of Erastria venustula ; the larvae had fed readily on 

 flowers of Potentilla tormentilla, and on garden forms of Potentilla, 



