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British species than that of his M. pygmaea. Ou the other hand, while Fieber's 

 description of M. pygmaea agrees pretty well with Puton's, the former author 

 gives 3 lines as the length of M. schneideri, which is far in excess of our British 

 species, so that either this measurement is due to a lapsus calami, or he must 

 have had some quite different irjsect before him. In the general collection of 

 the British Museum, a number of specimens, quite agreeing with our insect, 

 are placed under the name schneideri, and there is nothing at all standing as 

 jyygmaea. — E. A. Butler, 14 Drylands Road, Horn.^ey : July 2'~ith, 1918. 



Didea alneti Fin. in Kent. — On Jul}-- 21st last I took an example of this 

 fine Syrphid near the lighthouse between St. Margaret's Bay and Dover ; the 

 species appears to be extremely rare in this country, one of the few previously 

 recorded specimens having been taken by my late father at Colchester in 1893. 

 This insect is now in the iSatural History Museum at South Kensington. — 

 Philip Harwood, 5th Royal Fusiliers, Dover : July '2^th, 1918. 



The South liONDON Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 July 11th, 1918. — Mr. Stanley Edw\rds, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ash down exhibited numerous species of Lepidoptera taken or bred 

 by him in Surrey this season, including Cabera jJusaria, ab. roUindai'ia, Amphi- 

 dasys betidaria, with var. doubledayariu and intermediates, Trichopteryx viretata, 

 T. carpinata, Acronicta leporina, &c. Mr= W. West, Coleoptera taken by him 

 recently in the New Forest, including a fine series of Elatei' sanguinolentus 

 which had been abundant, with extreme aberration of the dark marking and 

 seven yellow forms. He also showed E. lythropterus, E. miiiiatus, Cryptoce- 

 phalus lineola, and the Dipteron Stomoxys bigidta. Mr. Edwards, Euploea 

 depuiseti var. lykeia from the Talaut Isles, Malay Archipelago, and the Danaine 

 Lycorea halias and its mimic the Arctiid Pericopis angulosa from Venezuela. 

 Mr. Sich, an Ephestia taken in the room. Mr. Lachlan Gibb, specimens of the 

 rare beetle Gnorimus nobilis from Hereford. Mr. Priske, the same species from 

 Chiswick. Mr. Sich read a paper, " A Beginner's Remarks on the Tortricina." 



July 25th, 1918.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Ashdcjwn exhibited aberrations of Leptura maculata {armata) a fine 

 graduated series, also Clythra 'i-jmnctata, Chrysomela orichalcea ( (^ and $ ) and 

 Ctesias ( Tiresias) serra, all from Surrey. Mr. Barnett, a bred series of Ephip- 

 2)iphora scutulayia from Epping Forest and its Hymenopterous parasite ; a bred 

 series of Cydia pomonella ; and blue females oi Polyommatus icarus. Mr. West, 

 Coleoptera taken in the New Forest in June, Lejjtwa scutellata, Hypera rumicis^ 

 Lupenis nigrofasciatvs, Centhorrhynchus chrysanthemi, and Cleonus nebulosus. 

 Mr. B. Adkin, a photograph of the underside of the specimen of Lycaena avion 

 with obsolete markings previously exhibited. Mr, Mera, living larvae of 

 Amphidasys betnlaria -. Brood A (1) on sallow, and A (2) on beech ; Brood B (1) 

 on sallow, B (2) on blackthorn. In both broods those on sallow were green in 

 colour, those on beech were dark and on blackthorn very dark. The decision 

 of colour occurred only in the very early stage. Mr. Bunnett, Dicranura 



