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Plusia monbta at DoRKtNG. — I have the pleasure of informing you 

 that, on the evening of 29th May, I took in my garden an example of Plusia 

 moneta in excellent condition. — Frederick Hood ; Denfield, Dorking, 

 June 12, 1893. 



Plusia moneta at Tunbridge Wells. — This insect seems to have 

 become a resident here, as my friend Dr. Francis Jaffrey captured two 

 specimens at Hght in the middle of the town on the 19th and 24th inst. ; 

 and my son took another on the 26th inst., in the same garden where I 

 took five specimens in 1890 and 1892. The three taken this year here are 

 very small. — R. A. Dallas Beeching ; Tunbridge Wells, June 27, 1893. 



Sphinx pinastri in Suffolk. — I have taken six more Sphinx pinastri 

 in the same fir woods as last year, and nearly in the same position in the 

 wood. — Rendlesham ; Rendlesham, Woodbridge, June 13, 1893. 



Acrontcta alni in April. — On April 10th I had the pleasure of 

 breeding a splendid female specimen of Acronycta alni from a pupa found 

 here last autumn in the decayed wood of an ash tree, growing near a haw- 

 thorn hedge, upon which the larva had probably fed. — Chas. Bartlett ; 

 Branscorabe, Woodstock Road, Redland, I3ristol, June 9, 1893. 



Captures at West Wickham. — Whilst staying at West Wickham on 

 the 22nd May last, my friend Mr. Ustonbox and I had the good fortune to 

 take three specimens of that lovely insect Cymatoplwra fluctuosa. Two of 

 these were in perfect condition, whilst the third was decidedly worn. We 

 took them at rest about mid-day from trees on the little patch of ground in 

 the woods, which is known as "Glebe-Land." Amongst other things taken 

 were Ephyra trilinearia (3), E. punctaria (1), Corycia temerata (1), Macaria 

 notata (in abundance), M. liturata (3), Fidonia piniaria (a regular nuisance, 

 all males but one), and Notodonta camelina (1). On the following Sunday, 

 the 4th of June, I took in precisely the same spot two specimens of Boarmia 

 roboraria, and about a dozen Tephrosia extersaria. — F. J. Robinson, Jun. ; 

 Surrey Cottage, Water Lane, Brixton, June 13, 1893. 



Erratum. — Page 197, line 10 from bottom, for Ambresburg read 

 Ambresburj. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — June 7th, 1893. — H. J. Elwes, 

 Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr. George Willis Kirkaldy, 

 of St. Abbs, Worple Road, Wimbledon, S.W., was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited varieties of Fidonia piniaria and Thecla 

 rubi, taken at Bournemouth on May 20th, 1893. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse 

 exhibited certain large galls on oak-leaves from Mexico, one of which was 

 apparently produced by a species of Cynipidse. Mr. A. Cowper Field 

 exhibited varieties of SmerintJms tilice, bred between 1890 and 1893, under 

 varying conditions of temperature, those which had been exposed to a lower 

 temperature being much darker than those which had been exposed to a 

 higher. Mr. Merrifield made some observations on the subject, and 

 remarked that, as far as his experience went, no hard and fast rule could 

 be laid down with regard to the production of the lighter or darker colour- 

 ings, as a high temperature sometimes produced dark forms. Mr. W. M. 



