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Captures at Electeic Light. — Acting on the advice given by the 

 Editor in Entom. 172, re the working of electric light, I paid a visit to the 

 lighthouse now open at Chelsea, on the 15th of July, where I managed to 

 capture specimens of the following ; they were mostly rather battered : — 

 Leucania conigera, L. llihargyria, L. impura, L. pallens, Hadena 

 oleracea, H. dentina, H. chenopodii, Agrotls corticea A. nigricans, Xylo- 

 phasia polyodon, X. rurea, CucuUia umhratica, Phlogophora meticulosa, 

 Tryphcena subsequa, T. orbona, T. pronuba, Cossus ligniperda, Zeuzera 

 cBsculi, and Chelonia caia. Had the night been warmer and less windy the 

 list might have been much larger, as on many nights moths have been very 

 abundant, so the director of the light told me. — D. H. S. Stewart ; Royal 

 College of Science, Kensington, W., July 37, 1891. 



A New Setting-board. — Messrs. Day and Newstead have recently 

 introduced a new style of setting-board, which should prove most useful to 

 those who experience difficulty in setting insects to their satisfaction on the 

 ordinary board. By an ingenious arrangement of hinged flaps or slips of 

 glass, the operator can, by means of this improved " set," manipulate his 

 insects expeditiously and with precision. — Richard South. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — August 5th, 1891. — Mr. 

 Frederick Du Cane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Arthur J. Chitty, of 33, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W., and Captain E. 

 G. Watson, of 5, Lypiatt Terrace, Cheltenham, were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. The President announced the death of Mr. Ferdinand Grut, the 

 Hon. Librarian of the Society, and commented on the valuable services 

 which the deceased gentleman had rendered the Society for many years 

 past. Dr. D. Sharp exhibited Japyx solifugus, from the Eastern Pyrenees, 

 and stated that in his opinion it was a connecting link between the Thysanura 

 and Dermaptera. He also exhibited pupse of Dytiscus marginalis ; one of 

 these was perfectly developed, with the exception that it retained the larval 

 head: this was owing to the larva having received a sight injury to the 

 head. Dr. Sharp also exhibited specimens of Ophonus puncticuUis and 

 allied species, and said that Thomson's characters of the three Swedish 

 species, 0. puncticoUis, 0. brevicoUis, and 0. rectangulus, applied well to 

 our British examples, and separated them in a satisfactory manner. 

 Thomson's nomenclature, however, would, he thought, prove untenable, as 

 the distinguished Swede described our common puncticoUis as a new 

 species, under the name of rectangulus. Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a 

 bleached specimen of Epinephele ianira, having the right fore wing of a 

 creamy white, blending into pale smoky brown at the base; also a long and 

 varied series of Epinephele hyperanthus, from the New Forest and Dorking. 

 The specimens from the former locality were considerably darker and more 

 strongly marked than those from the chalk. Amongst the specimens was 

 a variety of the female, with large lanceolate markings on the under side, 

 taken in the New Forest in July, 1890, and a female from Dorking, with 

 large, clearly defined white-pupilled spots on the upper side. Mr. Frohawk 

 further exhibited drawings of varieties of the pupae of E. hyperanthus, and 



