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of June, 1887. The four last species have beeu determined by Mr. 

 Stainton. Specimens of L. paludicola have hitherto done duty in my 

 cabinet for L. lacteella, about which last little appears to be known among 

 entomologists generally. Trifurcula atrifrontella, one caught on the wing 

 in a wood about the end of June. This also has been examined aud de- 

 termined by Mr. Stainton, who speaks of it as " a great rarity." Apatura 

 iris, female, the first I have seen in this district ; the species has not been 

 recorded in Dorsetshire since 1841. Plusia orichalcea, a fine specimen 

 taken by my friend Mr. J. J. Dunn Cooke, at Hyde, near Bloxworth, about 

 the middle of July. Eupithecia dodoneata, several examples in May and 

 June. Near Weymouth it appears to have been quite abundant last 

 spring. Catoptria albersana, one taken, several seen. Euchromia purpur- 

 ana, one taken. Lobesia reliquana, fairly abundant. Eupcecilia nana 

 several. Tinea semifulvella, one. Depressaria pupurea, one beaten out of 

 thatch in August. (Ecophora fulviguttella, several. Gracilaria elongella, 

 several. Lita costella, one (the first there met with), in a swampy spot, the 

 first week in September. Pcecilia nivea (= gemmella), frequent, but not 

 in anything like its usual abundance. Doryphora oblitella, several in a 

 bog on the heath. In some seasons it is fairly common. D. lucidella, 

 one ; not met with before in this district. Bryotropha umbrosella, tolerably 

 abundant, Chesil Beach, Portland, beginning of July. Stigmonota puncti- 

 costana, one flying in a wood in June. This is its first record in this 

 county. I have not thought it necessary to arrange the above species in 

 any systematic order, but have taken them at random, while looking over 

 my notes of the season. — O. P. Cambridge ; Bloxworth Rectory, Feb- 

 ruary 7, 1890. 



A Curious Blunder. — Lord Walsingham's recent remarks on the 

 ignorance of the public on entomological subjects have met with a curious 

 confirmation. A writer in one of our first medical journals, speaking of 

 the tarantula, pronouuced it a " harmless beetle " (sic). When a medical 

 graduate thus confounds Arachnida and Coleoptera, what may we not 

 expect from the general public? — J. W. Slater; 36, Wray Crescent, 

 Tollington Park, N. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — February 5th, 1890. — The 

 Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 The President announced that he had nominated Mr. J. W. Dunning, 

 M.A., F.L.S., Captain H. J. Elwes, F.L.S., and Mr. Frederick DuCane 

 Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-Presidents for the Session 1890—1891. Mr. 

 B. A. Bristowe, of Champion Hill, S.E. ; Mr. J. E. Eastwood, of Witley, 

 Surrey; Mr. A. B. Farn, of Stone, Greenhithe, Kent; and Mr. 0. Gold- 

 thwaite, of Leyton, Essex, were elected Fellows ; and Mr. R. S. Standen 

 was admitted into the Society. Mr. F. D. Godman exhibited a specimen 

 of Papilio thoas, from Alamos, in the State of Gonora, Mexico, showing an 

 aberration in the left bind wing. Mr. R. Trimen remarked that butterflies 

 of the genus Papilio were seldom liable to variation. Mr. Charles G. 

 Barrett exhibited a series of specimens of Phycis subornatella. Dup., from 

 Pembroke, the east and west of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and Perthshire ; 

 and a series of Phycis adornatella, Tr., from Box Hill, Folkestone, Norfolk, 

 and Reading ; also a number of forms intermediate between the above, 



