140 THE entomologist's record. 



isabellae, which he had taken in his immediate neighbourhood. As 

 Mr. Murray has before captured the larva, Dr. Chapman suggests 

 that it must be an estabUshed species. We await the breeding of 

 the imagines with interest. 



Mr. Claude Morley adds Bracon abscessor, Nees, to the British list, 

 on the strength of a single $ specimen swept at Horning Fen, on 

 July 15th, 1901. 



The Eev. W. J. Wingate {Ent. Mo. Mag.) records Phora nigricornis, 

 Egg., P. nudijyalpis, Beck., and P. rujicornis, Mg., as new to the 

 British list, he also describes Phora papillata, n. sp., from specimens 

 taken at Bishop Auckland. 



Parts 8 and 9 of ^ Natural History of the British Butterflies are 

 published together this month, ' and carry us almost to the end of our 

 study of the " Skippers." The lifehistories of Hesperia malvae and 

 Nisoniades tages are, thanks to Dr. Chapman and Mr. Sich, particularly 

 ■complete; nothing but the most superficial information having been 

 hitherto available about either of them. A long chapter on the 

 " Connection between ants and butterfly larvae," in the preliminary 

 part of these numbers, will no doubt be found of great interest. Part 

 10 will contain a chapter on " Carnivorous butterfly larvae," being a 

 summary of our knowledge of the habits of those Lycaenid larvae that 

 feed entirely on aphides, mealy-bugs, etc. 



SOCIETIES. 



City of London Entomological Society. — April Srd, 1906. — 

 Exhibits. — Hybeknia leucoph^aria — from Richmond Park, including 

 two melanic specimens, and very dark Nyssia hispidaria from the 

 same locality, Mr. E. A. Cockayne. Anthrocera filipendul^. — 

 ■Cocoon spun upon a hawthorn twig, two feet above the ground, Mr. 

 G. G. C. Hodgson. Anticlea badiata. — A series bred from ova from 

 Surbiton. The emergence extended from February 1st to March 22nd, 

 1906, although the larvae pupated almost simultaneously, Mr. W. J. Kaye. 

 Nyssia zonariaxN. lapponaria hybrids. — Males and females of this 

 hybrid, exhibited by Mr. A. W. Mera. Several pairings of the hybrids 

 had been attempted, but no ova resulted, although the females went 

 through the actions of oviposition. " A contribution to the study of 



THE MiCRO-LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OF THE LoNDON DISTRICT." Mr. A. Sich 



read a paper on this subject, and laid before the Society a preliminary 

 list of the Micro-lepidoptera of southwest London. April 17th. — 

 Exhibits. — Pararge egeria. — Third brood, bred August, 1904, and 

 their descendants, which passed the winter in the pupal stage, and 

 emerged in March and April, 1905, Mr. C. P. Pickett. Callimorpha 

 DOMiNULA. — Larvffi, from Kingsdown, Kent) where the exhibitor had 

 also found the larv® of Porthesia chrysorrhcea to be plentiful, Mr. 

 T. H. Hamling. 



South London Entomological Society. — April 12th, 1906. — 

 Breeding Melanippe pluctuata. — Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a bred 

 series of M. jiuctuata from Wantage, with the parent ? . The latter 

 was large and strongly marked, while the progeny were small and 

 very ordinary looking. Aberrations of Crambus tristellus. — Mt. 

 R. Adkin also exhibited specimens of C. tristellus — (1) An almoslj 

 albino form from Pembroke. (2) Dark form from Perth. (2) With' 

 two transverse lines from Orkney. ■ 



