118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



21st, and in addition on the last date, Ryadaphus (Cavariella) capreae, 

 oviparous ? $ , and Tvberolachnus viminalis, Boyer, numerous alate 

 and apterous specimens, and a few pupae. 



November 9th. — Quedius impressus on the wing in the road. 



November 10th. — Male Wasp (Vespa vulgaris) on pavement; and 

 Cyplwn variabilis on my study window. — H. Donisthorpe, Putney. 



(gfURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The Interim Eeport of the Mosquito Investigation Committee of 

 the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies has been submitted to 

 the Ministry of Health and has been described by Colonel James as 

 " interesting and valuable." "Will all those who have had Circular 

 No. 4 dealing with Anopheles plumbeus and are participating in getting 

 data on this species kindly communicate at once with the Hon. Sec, 

 the Rev. T. W. Oswald Hicks, B.A., " Lesware," Linden Road, N. 15. 

 Information is particularly required (A) of the habits and breeding 

 places of A. plumbeus, and (B) its distribution as a larva and as a 

 full-grown insect. It is an easy matter to send these " gnats " in 

 folded paper in an envelope, as they can then easily be identified by 

 an expert. Copies of the interesting circular are still obtainable from 

 the Hon. Secretary. 



In the Bull. Soc. ent. France for February is a list of the Micro- 

 lepidoptera of the Island of Oleron (Charente-Inferieure), by C. 

 Dumont, which he has recently obtained and which brings up the 

 total number of species of Micros already reported to 280. There are 

 included 5 Coleophora, only 1 Lithocolletis, the very local Psychid Lujf'ia 

 lapidella, 5 Tinea (s. str.), 5 Pterophoridae, 9 Conchylis, 3 Aealla, 

 including A. cristana from Ulmus ca-mpestris, etc. 



Through the kindness of our valued correspondent, Mr. G. B. 

 Pearson, of Pasadena, near Los Angelos, S. California, and a member 

 of the South London Entomological Society, we have received a copy 

 of the first number of the South West Science Bulletin, issued by the 

 South West Science Association of Los Angelos, of which Dr. John 

 Comstock, the well-known Lepidopterist and Assistant Director of the 

 Los Angelos Museum, is one of the foremost members. The matter 

 is about equally divided between Entomology (Lep.) and Botany. It 

 contains one plate of nine coloured figures of rare and new Argynnids 

 to illustrate Professor Comstock's articles. Argynnis malcolmi sp. nov. 

 is near A. montivaga ; race tehachapina v. nov. is a high mountain 

 form of A. montivaga ; Melitaea salina, Wright, of which hitherto only 

 the type (a wreck) existed and of which Dr. Comstock had received a 

 number from the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, are the species 

 illustrated and described. 



We regret to hear that Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, who so recently 

 took up the Secretaryship of The Entomological Society, is seriously ill. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



November 3rd, 1920. — Election of Fellows. — Messrs. Thomas 

 Alexander Barns, F.Z.S., 32, Windsor Court, Bayswater, London, W. ; 

 George Bethell, F.R.Hist.S., 11, Chandos St., London, W. 1 ; Major 



