irOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. l97 



of the trees and shrubs being barely in leaf. It was my first visit to the 

 New Forest, and, considering the wet and cold weather we had during May, 

 the result was better than I anticipated. — Philip W. Ridley ; 3, Camden 

 Terrace, Bath. 



Notes from Reading. — Yesterday, the 16th July, a friend and myself 

 set out to catch Asthena bhvieri, Minoa euphorbiata, and Thecla w-alhum. 

 We took from 50 to 60 blomeri, 6 euphorbiata, 1 T. w-album (saw several 

 others); and, in addition, got some 40 or 50 Abraxas ulmata. I also had 

 the fortune to find one more female Stauropus fagi. S.fagi occupied its 

 usual position, i. e., the N.E. side of a moderately-sized beech tree. A. 

 blomeri we found chiefly on the trunks, and was somewhat difl&cult to 

 capture ; it has a habit of flying off and making for the underwood on the 

 approach of its would-be captor, who must be nimble to secure it before it 

 reaches a place of safety. — J. Clarke ; Reading, July 17, 1891. 



Variety of Hepialus lupulinus. — A very light specimen of Hepialus 

 lupulinus was taken by me, at rest on an oak fence in Putney Park Lane, 

 on June 14th. All four wings are of a dirty white, with no markings 

 whatever. — Charles Maxsted ; 7, Church Terrace, Castelnau, Barnes, 

 July 5, 1891. 



[Mr. Adamson (Entom. xvi. 162) records a white specimen of H. lupu- 

 linus from Croydon, but this example had a broad tawny border on the 

 costal margin, and a band of the same colour on the outer and inner 

 margins. On page 187 of the same volume, Mr. Swinton says that white 

 varieties of the species were common on the Old Guildford racecourse the 

 first week in June. He adds, " I have been endeavouring to catch one 

 quite white, but have not hitherto succeeded." Probably specimens similar 

 to that described by Mr. Adamson are not scarce if looked tor, but H. lupu- 

 linus is such a common moth that collectors do not perhaps give the species 

 much attention. Some years ago I obtained a number of interesting 

 varieties of this species in one evening at Kingsbury ; amongst them were 

 several of the white form, and since then 1 have frequently met with this 

 variety in other places. — R. S.] 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — July 1st, 1891. — Mr. Frederick 

 DuCane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. The Rev. John 

 Isabell, of St. Sennen Rectory, Penzance, was elected a Fellow, and the 

 Rev. John Seymour St. John, B.A., was admitted into the Society. Mr. 

 Jacoby exhibited a specimen of a species of Coleoptera belonging to the 

 family Galerucidae, with the maxillary palpi extraordinarily developed. The 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, on behalf of Mr. Wroughton, Conservator of Forests, 

 Poona, exhibited specimens of a bug imitating an ant, Polyrachis spiniger, 

 and of a spider imitating a species of Mutilla, and read the following notes : 

 — " I have taken a good many specimens of a bug which has achieved a very 

 fair imitation of Polyrachis spiniger (under the same stone with which it 

 may be found), even to the extent of evolving a pedicle and spines in what, 

 were it an ant, would be its metanotura. Curiously enough, however, these 

 spines are apparently not alike in any two specimens. Is it that this 



