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proposes and describes the new genus Probagoiis, to contain a species 

 new to science discovered and taken very rarely in the New Forest, and 

 which he also describes under the name Probaf/ous headeri. With P, 

 heasleri the older species known as Bagous cnemerythnis {tempestivus) 

 has been included. Two further new species have been added by Mr> 

 Sharp to the genus Bagous, viz., B. tomlini, examples of which were 

 found by our colleague, Mr. Tomlin, in the Eomney Marshes many years- 

 ago, and B. arduiis. from a single specimen in the possession of himself. 

 Both are closely allied to B. claudicans. 



In the Irish Nat. for June, our colleague Mr. H. Donisthorpe 

 contributes an article on the Coleopteron, " Elater praeiistus an Irish 

 Beetle." The species was taken by Mr. Donisthorpe and his friend Mr. 

 F. Bouskell in June, 1902, at Glencar, Co. Kerry, and recorded in the 

 Ent. Rec, xiv., 240 (1902), as E. pomonae. The Irish race differs 

 considerably from examples of the typical E. praeustus, the latter being 

 larger, duller, and more closely and strongly punctured, and having a 

 broad black tip to the elytra. 



The Entomologist for June contains some suggestive notes on the- 

 Spanish race of Papilio podaliri\is (the race feisthamelii) , and on the 

 distribution and development of the Melanargia species in the South- 

 western Paltearctic region, by Mr. H. Kowland Brown, and a Report 

 on British Orthoptera in 1916, by Mr, W. J. Lucas. 



It is with much regret that we have to record the death of Mr. A. 

 J. Scollick, of Merton, for many years a member of the S. London 

 Society. Although not a regular attendant at the ordinary meet- 

 ings of the Society, he came to most of the field-meetings, where he 

 was ever welcome for his genial manner and pleasant companionship.. 

 He was a field-worker and took pleasure in the lanes and woods he 

 loved so well. During the past year he had been staying at Seaton for 

 his health, where he passed away after an operation. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. 



Febriiarij 1th, 1917. — Nomination of Vice-Presidents. — The Presi- 

 dent announced that he had nominated Dr. T. A. Chapman, Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff and the Honble. N. Charles Rothschild as Vice-Presidents 

 for the ensuing year. 



Death of a former President. — The President also announced the 

 death of Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, a former President of the Society, and 

 a vote of condolence with his daughter was passed on the motion of 

 Mr. Champion seconded by Mr. Bethune-Baker. 



Election of a Fellow. — rMr. A. W. Rymer Roberts, M.A., 

 Rothamsted Agricultural Experiment Station, Harpenden, and The 

 Common, Windermere, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Lepidoptera from Salonica. — Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited on behalf 

 of Captain E. F. Studd, R.F.A., a Fellow of the Society, at present 

 serving with the British Expeditionary Force at Salonica, various 

 Lepidoptera taken by him in 1916, in the neighbourhood of Salonica. 



Commander Walker said that he had taken almost all the species 

 exhibited many years ago in the neighbourhood of Port Baklar near 

 the Boulair Lines. He had found the larvse of M. trivia feeding orh 

 Verbasciwi in the greatest abundance. 



