280 THE entomologist's record. 



r/:., from July Ist-Srd. — L. W. Newman, 18, Salisbury Road, Bexley, 

 Kent. Aui/Nst Ut, 1899. 



FooDPLANT OF Lasiocampa callunae. — I find that larvse of L. 

 callunac feed Avell upon aspen. — Ibid. 



Saturnia pavonia and Lasiocampa var. callunae two years in 

 PUPAL stage. — I have a number of pupae of Saturnia jiavonia and 

 Lasioca)iij[)a var. vallnnac. The callunac are those of last year (1898), 

 as also are some of those of .S'. jtavimia. They are going over another 

 winter, and appear to be quite healthy, for I opened some and found 

 them alive and perfect. I never knew them, here, to remain in the 

 pupal stage tAvo winters before. — H. A. Beadle, 6, Station Street, 

 Keswick, (h-tuhcr 5th, 1899. 



(^URRENT NOTES. 



We have received from M. Padewieth, of Zengg-Segna, Croatia, a 

 price list of a number of Orthoptera and Neuroptera, collected in 

 Croatia and the Croatian littoral. Among others, we notice Bacillus 

 voshU, Fabr., 3", which is extremely rare in this parthenogenetic 

 species, and an undescribed form of the same genus, in both sexes, 

 well-set ; Sai/a scrrata, Fabr., J , and an imperfectly developed male of 

 the same, the latter priced at 18/-. We believe that only one other 

 male of this species is known to exist, and that is in the Vienna 

 Museum. There are a large number of other interesting species in 

 the catalogue. 



Somehow we have missed noting the enjoyable outing that the 

 Council of the Entomological Society of London spent at Oxford 

 during the first week of July, at the invitation of Professor E. B. 

 Poulton. The President of the Entomological Society was absent ill, 

 as also was Mr. E. Saunders, Mr. Trimen alone representing the Vice- 

 Presidents. Among the members and their friends present were 

 Messrs. Donisthorpe, Druce, Jacoby, McLachlan, Merrifield, Walker, 

 Tutt, Dr. Dixey, Professor Meldola and Colonel Swinhoe. An after- 

 noon, spent at the Hope Museum, inspecting the treasures there, 

 under the guidance of Professor Poulton and his able assistants — 

 Messrs. Hamm and Holland — was followed by a morning visit there 

 by some of the members, and a very enjoyable outing over the hills to 

 the beautiful residence of Mr. Arthur Evans, where the party was very 

 hospitably entertained. The pleasant meeting, too, in Dr. Dixey's 

 rooms, was greatly appreciated. Much entomology was talked, and 

 the informal meeting of our leading entomologists to discuss matters 

 in which they are severally interested, and in which free and easy 

 criticism is indulged, does much to strengthen the good fellowship that 

 exists between them as individuals, and to rub oft' the corners that are 

 bound to arise wherever difterences of critical opinion must necessarily 

 be expressed. Entomologists as a whole, and the members of the 

 Council of the Entomological Society in particular, therefore, owe to 

 the generosity of Mrs. and Professor Poulton, and their intimate 

 Oxford friends, a debt of gratitude that is really of more importance 

 than at first sight it may appear. We trust that successive batches of 

 the official members of the Entomological Society may long have the 

 opportunity of accepting the hospitality of the Hope Professor and his 

 friends. 



We hear that Mr. Elgar has had the good fortune to add Andrcna 

 lajiponira to the British list. The species was taken near Maidstone. 



