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Things were very forward and Brenthis euphrosyne and Huchloé 
cardamines were also nearly done. B. selene, on the other hand, were 
swarming, Nisoniades tages was in most phenomenal numbers and 
Augiades (Pamphila) sylvanus already well out. On the whole, butter- 
flies were scareely in such numbers as I have sometimes seen here. 
Callophrys (Thecla) rubi, Celastrina argiolus and Hamearis (Nemeobius) 
lucina, amongst others, were very scarce, and of Hulype (Melanippe) 
hastata only about a dozen were seen, where generally they appear at 
every turn. Zygaena (Anthrocera) trifolit and Hipocrita (Huchelia) 
jacobaeae, which were well out, made a brilliant sheen in two meadows, 
and in a sunny hollow Ruralis (Thecla) betulae larvee were abundant, 
half an hour’s beating resulting in forty-five and at the same time 
three T'richiura crataegt. : 
A useful lot of things were picked up, including Minoa murinata 
(euphorbiata), Aspilates strigillaria, Numeria pulveraria, Boarmia con- 
sortaria, and Anaitis plagiata, and Hemaris fuciformis at blossoms ot 
ragged robin. 
On an earlier visit of two hours only on May 22nd, I found Leptosta 
(Leucophasia) sinapis in quite its usual numbers, and took a nice series 
of Ennychia octomaculata, which was abundant in a sunny corner. In 
all, on these two days, I noted twenty-one species of butterflies alone, 
and not counting the Apatwra iris larva recorded separately from 
Haslemere.—Ib. 
Hymenoptera or Cumpertanp.—Recently I have been working 
among the Humble-bees and other Aculeate Hymenoptera to furnish 
further material and records for the Fauna of Cumberland. Yesterday 
(June 10th) I turned up my first specimen of Bombus distinguendus @ , 
it 1s the first time I have seen the insect. Bombus terrestris var. leucorum, 
B. pratorum, and B. hortorum are all very common here. Bombus 
terrestris is not so common as its var. leucorum. Queen wasps are this 
year common, and I have seen Vespa sylvestris, V. rufa, and V. norvegica 
in this neighbourhood.—G. B. Routteper (F.H.S.), Tarn Lodge, 
Head’s Nook, Carlisle. June 11th. 
G{URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
Owing to the failure to return proofs it has been impossible to bring 
out a July-August number this year. Instead we shall issue an August- 
September number including, through the kindness of Mr. G. T. 
Bethune-Baker and Mr. John Hartley Durrant, an extra dealing with 
the ‘ Tentamen ”’ and the “ Verzeichniss”’ of Hibner. 
We have much pleasure in stating that Prof. F. A. Dixey, M.A., 
M.D., F.R.S., has been unanimously elected as an Honorary Member 
of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 
The following is a list of the present Hon. Members with the dates 
when they were elected. Dr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., F.L.8. (1912), Prof. 
H. B. Poulton, D.Sc., M.A., F.B.S. (1912), and The Right Hon. Lord 
Walsingham, M.A., F'.R.S., F.L.8. (1886). 
The University of Michigan has in its entomological library a col- 
lection of photographs of the more eminent students of the family 
Formicidae. 
We understand that a recent addition is that of H. St. J. K. Donis- 
