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cyanea, one only in Folkestone Warren ; Lestes sponsa, very abundant on the broad 

 ditch on the sandhills ; Ischnura elegans, abundant on the broad ditch ; a very 

 small form also occurred not uncommonly ; Micromus paganus, Kingsdown ; 

 Chrysopaflava, Folkestone Warren ; C.flavifrons, several ; C. tenella, when recently 

 selecting a series of C. vulgaris for the cabinet, from a good number I set, I was 

 pleased to find among them a specimen of this species ; C. vulgaris, apparently 

 plentiful everywhere ; C. septempunctata, common, Deal and Kingsdown ; Panorpa 

 germanica, common. 



TeichopterA : Phryganea grandis, Mr. J. W. Tutt gave me fine specimens of 

 this, which he had taken on the sandhills ditch before my arrival, but it was 

 evidently over, for I did not see it ; P. varia, common ; Agrypnia Pagetana, one 

 specimen on Deal sandhills ; Colpotaulius incisus, common ; Grammotaulius nitidus, 

 the most abundant species seen, taken very freely on the sandhills ditch by the aid 

 of a lamp after dark, but not seen in the daytime ; Glyphotcelius pellucidus ; Limno- 

 pliilus rhombicus, not uncommon ; L. flavicornis, common, Deal and Folkestone ; 

 L. marmoratus, plentiful, Deal and Folkestone ; L. affinis, several on rushes on the 

 sandhills. 



Orthoptera : Stenobothrus elegans, plentiful ; S. bicolor, abundant ; Gompho- 

 cerus maculatus, common ; Xiphidium dorsale, on the sandhills ; Phasgonura 

 viridissima, this fine species occurred in plenty ; it was most readily found by the 

 aid of a lamp after dark, and a dozen adult specimens could easily be found in an 

 evening on the tops of the rank herbage skirting the sandhills ditch, or in St. 

 Margaret's Bay ; I also found it in the daytime in Folkestone Warren ; out of 

 about thirty specimens examined, three or four (including both sexes) had bright 

 yellow legs, all the rest having olive-coloured legs ; Decticus griseus, abundant. 



The curious Hemipteron, Chorosoma Schillingi was common on the withered 

 flower-heads of the marram grass ; and the big Dipteron, Asilus crabroniformis also 

 occurred on the sandhills. — Geo. T. Porritt, Huddersfield : January 10th, 1889. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 December 27th, 1888.— T. E. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. F. E. Fenton, M.K.C.P., F. P. Perks, J. Scudder, and W. Eeid were 

 elected Members. 



Mr. F. E. Strong exhibited full-fed larvae of Bonibyx quercus, L.,from Abergele, 

 N. Wales. Mr. E-. Adkin, a long series of Pygcera anachoreta, Fb., and remarked 

 that in a recent number of " The Young Naturalist," Mr. Gregson, in an article on 

 this species, suggested that the Continental specimens were readily distinguishable 

 from the British by their ashy-grey shade ; the series now shown were all bred from 

 one stock, and the colour varied from a brown tinge to the most ashy-grey tints, and 

 he, therefore, thought that too much reliance should not be placed on the shade of 

 colour." Mr. Billups read a paper, " A partial list of Parasitic Ichneumonidse, with 

 the hosts from which bred, during the last three years by a few members of the 

 Society." Mr. Billups stated the list consisted of some hundred species, numbering 

 some thousands of specimens, many of the species were exceedingly rare, and several 

 new. 



