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sticks standing in the turf. Sugar was not good — ivy l.)loom far 

 better. Three times I found larva? feeding at sugar. Once the larva 

 of CofiU.-i lu/nijienia, once that of lladena olcracca, and lastly that of 

 Sjnloso)iia lubriciju'da. This incident of larvre feeding at sugar is a 

 novelty to me. Pi/ramcis atalanta was seen in great numbers. — J. C. 

 DoLLMAN, Hove House, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W. October 

 ^Oth, 1899. 



Rearing Leucania albipuncta froh ova. — I have much pleasure 

 in recording a successful attempt to breed Lnicania aUiipuncta. The 

 ova were laid by a female taken at su"ar in the Isle of Wight, on 

 August 18th last. The larva^ hatched on August 29th. Nearly half 

 of them fed up rapidly, and by Octol.r uth had retired below the 

 surface of the earth provided for them, the remainder of the brood are 

 still slowly feeding up, and are mostly in their last skin but one. The 

 perfect insects are now emerging, the first one came out on October 

 26th. The brood has been kept in a room where there is a fire every 

 day. Also I might mention that the pup;t were left undisturbed and 

 the surface of the earth was not damped. — H. H. May, Redlands, 

 Hillbury Eoad, Upper Tooting, S.W. Xorcwher %ul, 1899. 



PoRTHESiA cuRYSORRHOEA AT Sandgate. — It may interest you to 

 know that at Sandgate this year, July 30th, I netted two I'orthma 

 rliri/snrr/ioea that flew to light in our drawing-room, and a third on 

 August 4th. All three were ? s. — Jos. F. Green, West Lodge, 

 P.lackheath. Xovcinbcr Srd, 1899. 



dfURRENT NOTES. 



A bronze memorial medallion portrait of the late Henry Ullyett, 

 B.Sc, F.R.G.S., author of that charming little volume " lUimhlcs. of a 

 Naturalifit round Folkestone,'" has lately been placed in the Folkestone 

 jMuseum, which he practically founded, and where so much of his 

 scientific work still remains. 



At the meeting of the Ent. Soc. of London, held on October 4th, 

 1899, the President announced the death, at the advanced age of 86 

 years, of Mr. Hippolyte Lucas, an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 

 He gave a brief account of the career, and eulogised the work, of the 

 distinguished French entomologist. He also announced the death of 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens, and, in reference thereto, said the Society had to 

 deplore the loss of one of its oldest and most highly esteemed Fellows. 

 Mr. Stevens was formerly for many years Treasurer, and had also been 

 a Vice-President, and during the whole period of his long connexion 

 with the Society had always shown the greatest interest in its welfare. 

 That this interest had up to the last continued unabated was mani- 

 fested by the terms of his will, in which he had made a bequest of 

 i'lOO to the Society. 



At the same meeting, Mr. J. J. W^alker exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 

 J'i. G. l>ayford, a specimen of Galerita bicolor, Drury, a North 

 American beetle of the family Carabida", said to have been taken many 

 years ago at Doncaster. He also exhibited a remarkable variety of 

 Afjlais nrticar, L. (ic/nuisoide.'i, De Selys), which was captured in the 

 Isle of Sheppey on August 28th, 1899. 



