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spun up, and transformed into a pupa, healthy to all appearances." From 

 the description of the imago it would seem that the American representative 

 of S.fuliginosa is identical with that from Scotland ; both are referable to 

 var. borealis, Staud. — R. S. 



Locality Labels for Specimens. — I have often wondered this 

 question has not been raised before, as I am convinced any publisher 

 would make it pay if it was done in a large systematic way. Would it not 

 be advisable to have a label printed for each county, and, where a large one, 

 indicated by N., S., &c, for north and south, &c. ; also, such as London, 

 Manchester, Aberdeen, &c, for the towns where there are a considerable 

 number of entomologists residing. It would be a good plan to leave a 

 space for the strata on which the insects were taken, — chalk, clay, &c. ; 

 and of course a place for the date. Size, too, is a most important item, as 

 they cannot be too small, for labelling the Micros, very well. About f in. 

 by J in. would be ample for any insect, if not too large. Some collectors 

 prefer an excessively minute label, which they pin underneath the 

 specimeu ; this means the insect being taken up each time reference is 

 made, which does not improve the specimen. In rare cases this can be done 

 as well ; but the label pinned at the side of the specimen or series from a 

 particular locality facilitates reference considerably, and is, I think, the 

 better plan.— A. E. Hall; Norbury, Sheffield, May, 1890. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — May 7th, 1890. — Capt. Henry 

 J. Elwes, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. W. G. Blatch, of 

 214, Green Lanes, Birmingham ; Mr. F. J. S. Chatterton, of 132, Queen 

 Victoria Street, E.G. ; Mr. Charles Fenn, of Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, S.E. ; 

 and Mr. George B. Routledge, of 50, Russell Square, W.C., were elected 

 Fellows; and Mr. A. E. Stearns was admitted into the Society. The 

 Secretary read a letter from the Vicar of Arundel, asking for advice as to 

 the course to be taken to get rid of the larvae of a beetle which were 

 destroying the beams of the Parish Church. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse said 

 he had already been consulted on the question, and had advised that the 

 beams should be soaked with paraffin oil. Dr. Sharp, Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 Dr. P. B. Mason, and the Chairman made some remarks on the subject. 

 Dr. Sharp exhibited specimens of Caryoborus lacerdce, a species of 

 Bruchidse, and the nuts from which they had been reared. He stated that 

 three of these nuts had been sent him from Bahia by the late Senor Lacerda, 

 about six years ago ; that one of the beetles had effected its exit from the 

 nut during the voyage ; a second had recently emerged, after the nuts had 

 been in this country for five years ; and that a third had undergone its 

 metamorphosis and died within the nut. Dr. Sharp also exhibited several 

 specimens of Diptera collected by Mr. Herbert Smith in St. Vincent, and 

 read a letter from him to Mr. Godman on the subject of the vast number 

 of species of this order which he had recently collected in that island. 

 Mr. M'Lachlan, Dr. Mason, Mr. Waterhouse, and Capt. Elwes took part 

 in the discussion which ensued. Mr. R. F. Lewis, on behalf of Mr. W. M. 

 Maskell, of Wellington, New Zealand, exhibited and read notes on about 

 twenty-five species of Coccidae from that colony. He also exhibited some 

 specimens of the larvse and imagos of Icerya purchasi, Maskell, obtained 



