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pillars." Personally, I have found larvae in Cheshire to be scarcer 

 than for many years past. On the 1.5th of August I went to Delamere 

 Forest for a few hours' beating ; from oak the result was nil ; from birch 

 I only beat a solitary caterpillar of Amphidasys betularia, one of Hylophila 

 bicolorana, about half a dozen Caber a jiusaria instead of scores, and three 

 or four more of common Geometers. This result I put down to the year's 

 prevalence of cold and wet weather. To the same cause I attribute an 

 extraordinary mortality among the caterpillar inhabitants of my flower- 

 pots and breeding-cages. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Odontura punctatissima abundant. — I never saw this Orthopteron 

 so common as it is now in our woods. — C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles 

 Wootton, August 2, 1890. 



Rhizotrogus solstitialis at Chester. — This beetle was very plenti- 

 ful close to Chester, on the Dee banks, last July. Up to last year it was 

 unrecorded in the list for Lancashire and Cheshire, when it was discovered 

 in the locality just quoted. To those unacquainted with the insect it may 

 be interesting to say that this beetle looks exactly like a small cockchafer 

 {Melolontha vulgaris), a species to which it is allied. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



SOCIETIES. 

 Entomological Society op London. — August Qth, 1890. — Capt. Henry 

 J. Elwes, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. Major-General George 

 Carden, of Surbiton, Surrey, and the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, 

 S.W. ; and Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe, Bart., of Calke Abbey, Derby- 

 shire, were elected Fellows. Prof. Meldola exhibited a male specimen of 

 Polyommatus (Chrysophanus) dorilis, Hufn., a common European and 

 Asiatic species, which had been taken at Lee, near Ilfracombe, in August, 

 1887, by Mr. Latter. At the time of its capture Mr. Latter supposed the 

 specimen to be a hybrid between Polyommatus phlceas and one of the 

 "Blue3," and had only recently identified it as belonging to a well-known 

 species. Mr. Stainton, Mr. Jenner Weir, aud Colonel Swinhoe^made some 

 remarks on the specimen, and commented on the additions to the list of butter- 

 flies captured in the United Kingdom which had been made of late years. 

 Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited, and made remarks on, four specimens of 

 Athous rhombeus, 01., bred from pupse, recently collected by himself in the 

 New Forest. The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited a large collection of Cole- 

 optera which he had recently made in Iceland. The following genera, 

 amongst others, were represented, viz. : — Patrobus, Nebria, Byrrhus, 

 Aphodius, Philonthus, Barynotus, Ohrysomela, Agabus, Creophilus, and 

 Oarabus. Mr. Champion, Dr. Sharp, and the Chairman made some 

 remarks on the collection. Capt. Elwes exhibited three species of the 

 genus Atossa, Moore, three of the genus Elcysma, Butl., and three of the 

 genus Campijlotes, West., — all from the Himalayas and North-eastern 

 Asia. The object of the exhibition was to illustrate the remarkable 

 differences of venation in these closely-allied forms of the same family. 

 Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Warren, Mr. Moore, and others took part in the 

 discussion which ensued. Mr. P. Crowley read a paper entitled " De- 

 scriptions of two new species of Butterflies from the West Coast of Africa," 

 and exhibited the species, which he proposed to name respectively Charaxes 

 gabonica and Cymothoe marginata. He also exhibited several other new 



