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larvtB of Tethea subtusa have been locally in abundance. W. J. Forclham 

 reports shortly oh the Coleopfcera. Hymenoptera, Diptera and 

 Hemiptera are dealt with by Rosse Butterfield, who reports the 

 occurrence of the aquatic fairy-fly, Cataiihractiis cinctiift of Haliday, and 

 the finding of Veapa f/e-nnamca for the first time in the W. Riding. 

 W. Falconer reports on the Arachnida, accounts of which have already 

 appeared in four papers published in the Naturalut during the year. 



The Knttnnolo(jut for January contains sonie interesting details of 

 the life-history of Goneptenj.v deopatra, including an attempt to 

 naturalise it, by Capt. E. Bagwell-Purefoy, F.E.S. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for .January F. N. Pierce announces a species 

 of Gracilariidae, Parornix finitimella, as new to the British List. It 

 has been obtained at Colchester, Mucking, Hartlepool, and other places. 

 Hitherto it has been confused with P. anf/licella and P. torqn'della, but 

 agrees perfectly with Zeller's type of P. fimMmella by its genitalia. 



In the same number Dr. R. C. L, Perkins announces and describes 

 a species of Pmmmockares [Poriipilii^) (Hymenoptera) as new to science 

 under the name of P. canlui. It has occurred both in the Forest of 

 Dean and at Stanmore, Middlesex, bred from cocoons found in dead 

 thistle stems. 



In the Scnttish Naturalist for January Percy H. Grimshaw has 

 commenced a useful article on the " British Lice (Anoplura) and their 

 Hosts." 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 



December lith, 1916. — The Annual Exhibition of Varieties. — Mr. 

 W. J. Kaye, on behalf of J. J. Joicey, Esq. (1) A gynandromorph of 

 Papilio lycophron from Peru. (2) The first known female of the 

 Brassolid Polyi/rapha cyanea closely resembling an Opsiphanes sp., from 

 Ecuador. (3) A yellow aberration of Z;/fjaena trifnlii from Watergate. 

 (4) A yellow form of Zygaena filipendnlae from Tenby, an aberration 

 confluent on left wing only, an aberration intermediate between yellow 

 and red, and a fine ab. chrysanthemi. 



Mr. Kaye, also for Mr. Joicey, twelve new forms of Heliconius 

 iiielpomone from French Guiana, representing a wholly new phase of 

 variation in the species, and read notes on the relationship of the 

 forms. 



Mr. Kaye's own exhibit was a cabinet drawer of the Ithomiine 

 genus Leucotiiyris, composed of transparent insects with black marking 

 and read notes on the significance of the varied markings exhibited. 



Dr. Cockayne, an aberration of Polyyonia c-albiim. in which the two 

 large costal spots are united and the hindwings are almost entirely 

 black. 



Dr. Chapman, males and females of two pairs of Lyctenid species, 

 of which one of each pair has onl}'- in recent years been difierentiated, 

 VIZ., Callop/uys avis from C. riihi in the Riviera and Latiorina pyrenaica 

 from L. orbitulus var. oberthnri in the Pyrenees. He also showed the 

 double-brooded S. European Agriafles which Dr. Verity difi'ereutiates 

 from the single-brooded A. coridou with the name aragoiiensis. 



Mr. Leeds, a long series of Lycs!nids and their aberrations largely 

 from Herts. Polyoiiunatus icanis, ab. caerulea, streaks replacing dots 



