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they were all captured in a room facing north, occurring on any fine 

 day, some even during the few extreme cold days, and as he has two 

 old sheds in the garden, possihly they may have been hybernating 

 there. I might further mention as to their remarkable vitality that 

 on transferring the three he gave me from one box to another one of 

 the specimens escaped so quickly that I was unable to recapture it. 

 It struck me that one does not often hear of V. io so plentifully 

 in January. — Stanley A. Blenkarn ; Norham, Cromwell Eoad, 

 Beckenham, February 11th, 1912. 



Gloucestershire Lepidoptera. — I am now able to add the 

 following to our local list :—Plusia moneta, taken at flowers of honey- 

 suckle on July 9th, 1909, near this city, and at light in Gloucester 

 on July 12th, 1909, by the Eev. G. M. Smith, who also found the 

 larvae here on Ddlphinmm in the following season, on June 1st, 1910 ; 

 Lobesia permixtana (reliquana), taken in the Forest of Dean on 

 June 15th, 1911; Hemimene {Dichrora7n2Jha) tanaceti [lierhosana) , 

 taken on our hills flying low amongst mixed herbage between 4 and 

 6 p.m. on August 31st, 1911; Lithocolletis sorbi, bred on July 7th, 

 1911, from mined leaves of Pyms aucuparia collected in the forest 

 on June 29th preceding ; and Nepticula fulgens, taken on the wing 

 amongst beech on our hills at 2 p.m. on May 11th, 1911. — ■ 

 Mr. Meyrick kindly identified the Micros for me.^ — C. Granville 

 Clutterbuck ; Heathside, Heathville Eoad, Gloucester, February 

 4th, 1912. 



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Entomological Society op London. — Wednesday, December 

 6th, 1911.— The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the chair.— 

 The follov/ing gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 

 Dr. Beckwith Whitehouse, 52, Newhall Street, Birmingham ; Messrs. 

 F. W. Edwards, Kingswear, Cornwall Eoad, Harrow ; Douglas Pearson, 

 Chilwell House, Chilwell, Notts; B. H. Smith, B.A., Edgehill, War- 

 lingham, Surrey ; C. F. M. Swynnerton, Mount Chirinda, Melsetter, 

 South Ehodesia. — Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited an insect recently 

 brought to the British Museum, and recognized by him as belonging 

 to Pnsojms, a remarkable and specially interesting genus of Phas- 

 midae. The species of Prisopiis inhabit Tropical America, and 

 appear to be very rare. The one now exhibited was new, and he pro- 

 posed to name it Prisopus fisheri, in honour of its discoverer. — Mr. 

 South, a drawer of Leucania pallens and L. favicolor, captured and 

 reared by the Eev. W. P. Waller in the Woodbridge district of 

 Suffolk. He observed that, seeing that Mr. Waller had reared 

 favicolor from eggs laid by a pallens-like female, and obtained pallens 

 from the ova of a female favicolor, the obvious inference was that 

 there was cross-pairing in each case. Mr. South added that he 

 understood that favicolor cannot be separated from pallens by any 

 difference in the genitalia, and was informed that cross-pairings 

 of pallens and favicolor are not uncommon in the habitat of the 



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