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20th to Wisley, on June 12th, a whole day (Whit-Monday), to High 
Wycombe, on July 22nd to Box Hill, on August 12th, a whole day, to 
Royston, Herts, on September 9th to Westerham, and possibly a date 
in October for a Fungus Foray. 
The Annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 
Societies is announced to take place on May 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, 
at Tunbridge Wells, where it was initiated just 21 yearsago. The 
President-elect is the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A., F.R.S., who was 
the first President of the Union. A glance through the list of fixtures 
shows a varied and extended series of events, consisting, in addition to 
the various business meetings of the delegates, of papers, lectures, and 
discussions, morning and evening, with visits to places of interest each 
afternoon. We are sorry to see no item in the programme of entomo- 
logical interest, and very little to justify the title of ‘‘ South-Kastern 
Naturalist,’ which the capital annual volume of the Union bears. 
We wish the Union a successful gathering. 
SOCIETIES. 
Tue EHEnromonocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
March 1st, 1916.—ABrERRATION oF ARCTIA cAJA, AND A Bririsn La- 
VERNA NODICOLELLA.—Mr. J. H. Durrant exhibited a fine variety of 
Arctia caja, Li, 3 , with dark fuscous hindwings; also a specimen of 
Laverna nodicolella, Fuchs, taken at Westerham, Kent, June 24th, 
1915, by Mr. P. A. Buxton. This species had not been recorded as 
British. 
BurrerFiies FRom Waiceu.—Mr. G. Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. 
Joicey, several species of Rhopalocera from Waigeu, and contributed 
notes. 
A Hawk-MoTH FOUND IN THE STOMACH OF A FISH IN SUVA HARBOUR, 
Fis1.—Prof. Poulton, a specimen of Chromis erotus, Cr. (eros, Boisd.), 
from the stomach of a fish, kindly sent to him by Lieut. L. H. Mosse- 
Robinson ; also eighteen Danais chrysippus captured between Novem- 
ber 3rd, 1914, and February 15th, 1915, at or near Sa. Isabel, on the 
north coast of Fernando Po. 
A Bere Bearine Poninia on Aut its LEas.—Mr. G. Meade- Waldo, 
a South African carpenter bee (Xylocopa hottentota, Smith), the tarsi 
of all three pairs of legs bearing the pollinia of some Asclepiad flower. 
A curious oLp Enromonocicat Boox.—Mr. Hamilton Druce, a book 
he had lately come across entitled ‘‘ The indigenous insects of the 
region of Petersburg,’ by John Cederjhelm, published at Leipzig in 
1798. 
A Bririsu (?) Srrex guvencus.—The Rey. F. D. Morice, a specimen 
of true Sire juvencus, 9, F., From Wakefield in Yorkshire; also a 
series of photo-micrographs to illustrate specific characters in the 
Ovipositors or “‘ saws’ of various Cimbicids. 
CELLs oF various Hymenoprera.—Mr. Nevinson, the cells of various 
species of the genera Odynerus, Humenes, and Osmia ; also examples of 
Cimbex and its allies, in illustration of Mr. Morice’s exhibit. 
Pupat Pappies or Mosquirons.—Mxr. A. Bacot,.a series of lantern 
slides showing outline camera drawings of preparations of the anal fins 
or paddles of mosquito pup ; also a slide showing outline of eges of 
Hretmopodites quinquevittatus, illustrating the remarkable range of size, 
The following Papers were read :— 
