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all naturalists. Several good half -tone plates illustrate the book, the most 

 striking of these being the interior of the famous " den " at Bloxworth Rectory, 

 with its occupant surrounded by his books and collections; and it is satis- 

 factory to know that the great series of Arachiida, with its numberless 

 *' types," brought together during his long Hfe, and the extensive library of 

 works relating to the Class, have found a final resting-place in the Oxford 

 University Museum, and are now available to all students of the subject. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 May 237-d, 1918. — Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Main exhibited the pupa of Ocypus olens (Coleopt.) in the pupal 

 chamber and jointed out the strong spines which prevented direct contact with 

 the earthen sides. He also showed the larva of TimarcJid tenebn'cosa ready for 

 pupation on its back in the cell. Mr. Ashdown, Albin's " Natural History of 

 English Insects," 1720, one of the first coloured English entomological works. 

 Mr. Dennis, stereoscopic slides of Tortrix cristana, etc. Mr. Main, Ayiopheles 

 bifurcatus and other mosquitoes. Mr. Adkin asked for support for the '' Wickeu 

 Fen Fund," indicating the object of the Fund and what had been done so far. 

 The remainder of the evening was spent in an exhibit and discussion of Mimas 

 tiliae, introduced by Mr. Sperriug. Messrs. Leeds, R. Adkin, and Sperring 

 exhibited their series of Mijnas tiliae. Mr. Leeds, a wild captured ab. suffusa 

 and a number of ab. maculata. 3Ir. R. Adkin, series of local races, and a long 

 graduated series of moditicatious of the central transverse band, and gynahdro- 

 morphous examples. Mr. Sperring then read his notes dealing with Nomencla- 

 ture (shortly), Ova, Larva, Pupa, Time of Emergence, Forcing, Assembling, 

 Pairing, and Variation, the last in some detail. A ditcussiou ensued, Messrs. R. 

 Adkin, B. Adkin, S. Edwards, W. A\'est, Dennis, Main, and others taking 

 part. Mimas tiliae was noted as being a very common suburban insect in the 

 larval stage : until recently invariably attached to lime-trees, feeding well on 

 bii'ch, formerly common in the pupal stage at the foot of oaks in Greenwich Park, 

 recently commonly attached to elms, always small when bred from elm-trees, 

 occuning in Highaiu's Park on alder, etc. 



June \Uh, 1918.— The President in the Chair. 



Prof. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., was elected an Honorary Member. 



The evening was mainly devoted to an Exhibition of Living Specimens of 

 Natural History. Mr. Ashdown exhibited living larvae of A/iatis ocellata 

 (Coleopt.) and living imagines of Mhagium imjuisitor (Coleopt.). Mr. R. 

 Adkin, " winter nests " and living larvae of Etipvoctis similis {aiirijiua) and of 

 E. chrysorrhoea, the one solitary in hibernation, the other gregarious ; and 

 also living Scoparia dubitalis and its white loim to show the Depressaria-lWe. 

 attitude of the latter. Mr. H. Main, various early stages of Chrysomela 

 yraminis on Tansy, of Timarcha violaieoniyra on AN'oodruli", of Timarcha tene- 

 bricosa, oi Neaophorus mortuoriim (all CoX^dO-^t. ), oi Gastropliilus equi (Dipt.), 

 of Podisus laridtis (Hemipt.), oi Fseudoterp7ia jjvuinata and Coleophora yetmtae 

 on Petty-whin, and of Lusychira pudibunda. Mr. Dennis, living larvae of 



