158 THE ENLIOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
3. Allowing cottagers and others to hack down dead trees killed by 
the fires and use them for firewood. 
4. Permitting cottagers to graze donkeys, cows, etc., on the sparse 
fresh grass which grows after a fire. 
5. Sundry causes, mischief, smoking, sparks from engines, etc. 
SOCIETIES. 
Tur Sourn Lonpon EntromonocicaL AND Natura History Society. 
April 11th.—AN EXHIBITION AND DISCUSSION OF THE GENUS SPILOSOMA.— 
The President made some general remarks on the distribution of the 
genus in the Palearctic Region. 
Mr. Ashdown’s exhibit included an example of the rare unicolor 
form of S. lubricipeda with only one slight dot on the costa, from the 
Wye Valley. 
Mr. R. Adkin, series of various local races of the species and series 
of crossings between the type and var. zatima of S. lubricipeda, very 
fine smoky and heavily spotted S. menthastri, etc. 
Mr. Mera, bred series of the species, including many var. radiata 
and intermediates, some fine var. fasciata and aberrations with dark 
bodies of YS. lubricipeda. He said that the zatima form was originally 
bred from Lincolnshire larve. 
Messrs. Kay, Sperring, Leeds, Turner, and Edwards also showed 
series. 
Mr. B. W. Adkin then exhibited his long series and read a short 
paper, ‘‘ The Genus Spilosoma.” 
April 28th.—Harty Brerepinc.—Mr. Ashdown exhibited Lepidop- 
tera bred this year indoors, including Diaphora mendica, Amphidasis 
betularia, Amorpha populi, Hylophila prasinana, etc. 
SexuaL DIMORPHISM IN American NympHatips.—Mr. H. Moore, 
the South American Nymphalids Catonephile acontius and C. batesti, 
pointing out their extreme sexual dimorphism. 
LivinG LARV# EXHIBITED.—Mr. Edwards, living larve of Hepialus 
humuli, and of a species of Geotrupes (Col.), both dug up at Black- 
heath. Mr. Main, living larve of Vimarcha tenebricosa (Col.). 
Variation In TERAS contaminaNna.—Mr. Turner, series of Teras 
contaminana, with var. ciliana, var. rhombana, var. dimidiana, and a 
much less common form recently pointed out by Mr. Sich (Hnt. 
Record, p. 69). 
A tocust rarp.—Mr. Bunnett, a. photograph of a raid of locusts 
approaching a farm in South Africa. 
Notes on THE sEAsSoN.—Messrs. Edwards, Leeds, Frohawk, and 
others reported on the season. Vanessa to and (Conepteryx rhamni 
were in abundance, and Huvanessa antiopa had occurred in Aberdeen- 
shire. 
May 9th.—ELEcTION oF A New MEMBER.—Mr. E. E. Green, F.E.S., 
of Camberley, Surrey, was elected a member. 
SuRREY COLEOPTERA.—ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF ORDERS OTHER THAN LEPI- 
poprrra.—Mr. Ashdown, a large number of Coleoptera taken in Surrey 
and Hants, 1917, including Leptura nigra, L. seaguttata, Conopalpus 
