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Panorpa cognata in Surrey. — On July 4th, 1903, Mr. E. South 

 took at Ockham, Surrey, a male scorpion-fly, which he believed to 

 belong to the scarce species Panorpa cognata, Eamb. Mr. K. J. 

 Morton has novv been kind enough to examine the specimen, and he 

 informs us that the identification is correct. A female taken by Mr. 

 W. J. Lucas at Byfleet, in the same county, on July 23rd, 1904, has 

 been already recorded (Entom. xhii. p. 187 (1910) ).— F. W. and H. 

 Campion ; 58, Eanelagh Eoad, EaHng, October 9th, 1912. 



Note on Pyrameis cardui. — On July 2nd, at -St. Leonard's-on- 

 Sea, I found several dozen larvae of P. cardui. At the same time 

 worn specimens of the butterfly were on the wing. On July 7th 

 several of the larvae had pupated ; two imagines emerged July 19th and 

 the last emerged July 29th. One specimen has a white spot in the red 

 portion of the wing, two have an additional white spot in the apical 

 region of the fore wing, as mentioned in Barrett's 'Lepidoptera,' and 

 one has a black spot in the red portion of the wing. — W. E. Butler ; 

 Hayling House, Oxford Eoad, Eeading, October 16th, 1912. 



SOCIETIES. 



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

 1912. — Mr. A. H. Jones, Vice-President, in the chair. — The Eev. 

 B. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, F.L.S., F.G.S., Cadney Vicarage, 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire, was elected a Fellow of the Society.— Mr. A. H. 

 Jones exhibited three examples of Aglais urticce var. ichmisa showing 

 the absence of scales in the centre of the wings, where the central 

 spots are present in the type. Also examples of Eilchloe damone from 

 Asia Minor and Sicily, showing the difference in the depth of colour of 

 the transverse black streak on fore wings and in the tone of colour of 

 under sides. — Dr. G. B. Longstaft', a series of twelve specimens (five 

 males and seven females) of the rare white butterfly, rinacopteryx 

 doxo, Godart (venatus, Butler), from the White Nile. — Mr. x\lfred 

 Sich, two specimens, with their cases, of Goleophora trigeminella, 

 Fuchs, and one specimen of C. hadiipermella, Dup., with its case for 

 comparison. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, three small groups of Ithomiine 

 butterflies that had been taken by himself in S. Brazil. — Mr. 

 Hamilton H. Druce, male and female of the new Mimacraa eltring- 

 hami, captured by Mr. S. A. Neave in the Bugoma Forest, Unyoro, 

 Uganda ; also another new Miviacraa, which he proposed to name 

 costleyi, after its discoverer Mr. Costley- White, at Mlanji, Nyasaland, 

 which appeared to be allied to M. viarshalli, Trimen, a specimen of 

 which was also shown for comparison. Mr. S. A. Neave described 

 the capture of these specimens. This species in common with several 

 others flies very high, and he said that it was often necessary to 

 employ small native boys perched at the top of the trees and armed 

 with nets. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a drawer of butterflies received 

 from Dr. Davis, of Belize, collected in British Honduras and the 

 neighbouring Eepublic of Guatemala.— Mr. C. B. Williams, a speci- 

 men of the male Megalothrips nobilis, Bagnall, from Wicken Fen, 

 taken April 11th, 1912. This is the largest European species, and, 



