172 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Beris vallata, Forst., captured with the following Tenthredinidae—2% 
2 Dolerus aericeps, Th.; 1 § Selandria serva, F.; 4 3 Athalia lineo- 
lata, Lep., by Mr. A. H. Hamm, on July 13th, 1907. All thirteen 
insects were taken from flowers, chiefly Umbelliferae, growing over a 
small area of Hogley Bog, Cowley, near Oxford. The first-named 
sawfly was far less perfect as a model than the other two, the last- 
named being the most perfect. 
THnromotoeicat-MetrorotocicaL -Recorps.—Major H. C. Gunton 
exhibited a diagram referring to Macrolepidoptera of the 1919 season 
in order to suggest a graphical method of recording observations of 
the appearance and habits of insects in relation to weather conditions. 
On a sheet of squared tracing cloth (each square having sides one- 
tenth of an inch) the names of the species of insects are tabulated 
vertically on the left-hand side in the order in which they appeared 
on the wing, while along the top and bottom the dates are written, 
so that there is one horizontal row of squares for each species and 
one vertical row for each date. By means of different symbols 
representing sallow, sugar, ivy, light, “settled” and ‘‘in flight,” 
the circumstances in which each observation is made are recorded 
in the appropriate square. 
The lower portion of the same sheet is devoted to particulars of 
the weather for each day, plotted to convenient scales and including 
rainfall, humidity, barometer, maximum and minimum temperature, 
direction and strength of wind, and general character of weather, 
using the same conventions as those employed by the Meteorological 
Office. The quarters of the moon are also indicated. 
Brrps and Burrerrims.—Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter said that since 
many naturalists believe that birds do not eat butterflies, no case of 
such an occurrence should be left unrecorded ; on February 15th of this 
year about mid-day he saw a male Brimstone butterdy fly through the 
garden at Oxford, and three sparrows that were on the ground leapt 
into the air and, fluttering clumsily, attempted to catch it; the butterfly 
easily evaded the birds. 
LIFE-HISTORIES OF some ConLEoprera.—Mr. H. Main exhibited 
lantern slides illustrating the life-history of the beetles Copris lunaris, 
Onthophagus vacca, and Necrophorus humator. 
Paprers.—The following papers were read :—‘‘ A contribution to 
our knowledge of the Life-history of the Stick Insect, Carausius 
morosus, Br.,” by George Talbot, F.1.8.; “A Record of Insect 
Mieration in Tropical America,” by C. B. Wiliams, M.A., F.E.S.; 
“The Geographical Factor in Mimicry,’ by F. A. Dixey, M.A., 
M.D., F.R.S., ete. 
Tue Souta Lonpon HKnromonocicat Socrmty. 
March 25th, 1920.—Locat Racks or B. partHenras.—Mr. A. A. W. 
Buckstone exlibited series of Brephos parthenias from Wimbledon, 
Oxshott, W. Wickham, and Darenth, and pointed out local charac- 
teristics; also ova of Apocheima hispidaria. 
New Form or C. rruncata.—Mr, B. 8. Williams, a striking new 
form of Cidaria (Dysstroma) truncata from Finchley, the basal third. 
black margined by a conspicuous white line. ; 
Tue species or Ureruersa.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, three species of 
