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productive last year, was a complete failure. Mr. Mallinson reported 

 numerous captures at dusk on Silene flowers — G.porcellus, C. wiibm- 

 tica, D. cucubali, P. iota, P. pulchrina, and P. interrogationis. Three 

 Pheosia dictaoides appeared in the pupa-cage on June 20th. There 

 is something peculiar ahout this insect. Mr. Mallinson took it freely 

 at Hght in early May, and again in August. Yet, out of the seventy 

 odd pupae carried over winter by the Kendal collectors, the above 

 three were the first to emerge. More dribbled out during July, but 

 fully half the total number are lying over. I cannot recall ever 

 breeding or catching a May specimen here, although Kendal is only 

 nine miles distant from Windermere. E. ccesiata was out and in 

 good condition on June 23rd, and on the 27th I found, by searching 

 poplar, nine newly hatched S. ijopuli, three G. libatrix, and one 

 P. tremida, the last, unfortunately, turning out to be ichneumoned. 

 An enterprising specimen of Oporahia filigrammaria emerged in the 

 pupa-cage (kept outside) on June 27th — a further proof of the early 

 character of the season. — Frank Littlewood. 

 (To be continued.) 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, April 3rd, 

 1912. — The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the Chair.— 

 The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — • 

 Mr. Henry Hacker, Queensland Museum, Bowen Bridge Road, 

 Brisbane, Queensland ; Mr. Cyril Engelhart Latour, Port of 

 Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies ; Signer Orazio Querci, Mace- 

 rata, Marche, Italy. — The Council having been invited to elect 

 Delegates to represent the Society at various functions, the follow- 

 ing had been elected : — For the Centenary Celebration of the 

 Piiiladelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Professor Comstock and 

 Dr. Holland ; Professor Fernald, who had also been elected, was 

 unable to attend ; for the First Eugenic Congress, in July, Professor 

 Bateson ; for the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Society, in July, 

 the President ; for the International Congress of Entomology, in 

 August, the President, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Secretary, and Messrs. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, H. Rowland-Brown, and the Hon. W. Roths- 

 child. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker exhibited a specimen of Cydopodia 

 Jiopei, Westw., a parasite on the Indian flying-fox ; this was itself 

 parasitized by an Acarid of the genus Gamasus, there being no less 

 than seventeen of this small species on one specimen of C. Jiopei. — 

 There being no other exhibits and no papers to be read, the President 

 said that he thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss the 

 important subject of Nomenclature, and a long discussion took place 

 in which many of the Fellows present took part. Eventually Mr. 

 Turner proposed that a small Committee be appointed to consider 

 the subject of Nomenclature and report to the June meeting, with a 

 view to the coming International Congress. This was seconded by 

 Mr. A. E. Gibbs, and carried nem. con. The following Fellows were 

 proposed as forming the Committee, and the names being put from 

 the Chair were unanimously accepted : — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, Messrs. J. H. Durrant, H. J. Turner, C. O. 



