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-L., from Kent. Mr. E. Joy, Meliana flammea, Curt., and Nascia cillalis, 

 Hb., from Wicken Fen. Mr. Howard Vaugban, Melitma aurinia, Rotb., 

 ■Ccenonympha typhon, Roth., Nemeophila russula, L., Crambus sylvellus, Hb., 

 Scoparia ambigua, Tr., and var. atomalis, from Nortb Knapdale ; S. am- 

 bigualis var. atomalis, Hypsipetes trifasciata, Bork., and Coremia designata, 

 ■&c, from Kilmartin parish, Argyllsbire ; dark forms of Larentia viridaria, 

 Fb., and two male Procris which differed considerably from P. statices, and 

 upon tbe identity of which the members did not hazard an opinion. Mr. 

 Vaughan remarked that they appeared to him to be intermediate between 

 statices and globularim. Adverting to Colonel Blathwart's communication 

 to the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for the month of April last, 

 p. 109, Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of the two forms of Volu- 

 cella bombylans which mimicked Bombus lapidarius and Bombus terrestris 

 respectively, stating that he fully concurred with the Colonel in considering 

 that this remarkable dimorphic condition of the Volucella assisted it to 

 become parasitic upon two species of Bombus differing both in colour and 

 markings. He also exhibited a specimen of the Volucella which he had 

 recently taken at Bournemouth, in which the mimicking was imperfect, 

 inasmuch as the arrangement of the colour resembled that of Bombus lapi- 

 darius, but instead of the hairs at the end of the abdomen being red they 

 were of a yellowish colour, as in the mimic of Bombus terrestris. He 

 showed also a specimen of the large worker of Formica rufa to the antenna 

 of which was attached, by the closed jaws, the head and part of the thorax 

 of another ant with which no doubt it had fought and destroyed the abdomen 

 and most of the thorax of its adversary, but could not detach the head. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 July \lth.—Mv. J. A. Clark, President, in the chair. Mr. A. H. C. 

 Hamilton, of Cheverton Road, N., was elected a member of the Society. 

 Mr. Lewcock exhibited Philonthus decorum, from Highgate ; and Liophlmus 

 nubilus, from Claygate ; also, on behalf of Mr. Cripps, Orammoptera 

 prausta, Toxotus meridianus, and Silpha ■i-panctata, taken on hawthorn at 

 Brockenhurst during Whitsuntide. Mr. Heasler, Harpalus servus, Calathus 

 fuscus, Panagceus i-pustulatus, Amara ovata, and numerous other species of 

 Coleoptera from Deal sandhills. Mr. Clark, a box containing beetles cap- 

 tured at sugar at Brockenhurst, including Carabu$ catenulatus, Pterostichus 

 niger, Anchomenus junceus, &c. Lepidoptera : Mr. Clark exhibited Emme- 

 lesia decolorata, Hb., bred from larvae received from north of Ireland, and 

 a variety of Ematurga atomaria, L., from Brockenhurst. Mr. Bellamy, 

 Thyatira batis, L., Miana arcuosa, L., and vars. of Abraxas grossulariata, L. 

 Mr. Gurney announced that since last meeting he had bred several more 

 Phorodesma sviaragdaria, Fb. Mr. Battley, while sugaring at Southwell, 

 had captured some three dozen species, incuding Nola cucullatella, L. (on 

 the wing between 12 and 1 at night), and several Miana arcuosa, L. The 

 latter insect first appeared at 9.30, crawling up the stems of grass, 

 remaining there until 11.30 ; flight then took place for about an hour, 

 when it again sought the grass stems. Mr. Lewcock read portions of a 

 letter received from Mr. P. W. Jarvis (of Cape Town), referring to the 

 method of capturing certain species of Cicindelidse in South Africa. The 

 beetles referred to inhabit the coast, and are found just above high-water 

 mark. Having procured a piece of a whale's rib-bone about a foot long 

 (common in these parts), a certain sandhill is selected for operations, 

 which are commenced by carefully scraping the sand away, taking but a thin 



