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I think it must have been the females that I saw several times flying 

 low and fast over the lake, every now and then dropping on to the 

 surface, like a swallow, and having a drink. It was a dark brown 

 moth about the same size as the one I sent you, and close to the spot 

 on the lake where I saw two or three moths drop on to the surface 

 for a drink, and then off again — very quick flyers." 



In a further letter dated June 11th, Mr. Hinchliff writes: — "Be 

 my remark that I had discovered their breeding-ground, what I 

 meant was that I had discovered the locality where they evidently 

 bred, as it is the only spot where there were several of them 

 flying about ; before, I had only seen single isolated specimens 

 flying over the pampas, but here, on this island, there were some 

 hundreds flying over a given spot about twenty acres or so in extent 

 composed wholly of coarse grass about three feet high (tussocks, 

 called red grass or paja colorada), a few plants of pampas grass with 

 the tall white bloom stalks, some tall thistles, and a few small weeds 

 and a variety of small grasses, including a brome grass the same in 

 appearance as the grass on the sand-dunes at Braunton Lighthouse. 

 There were no shrubs or reeds or trees of any kind and they only 

 hovered over the red grass — so-called because in the winter the old 

 leaves turn a reddish colour sometimes. The whole place is two feet 

 deep with dried, rotted leaves of this grass, and occasionally they 

 seemed to disappear mysteriously into it, as the one I caught was in it, 

 and the female was also on a dry blade of the sam« grass. There is 

 a kind of loosestrife in this country and perhaps there may be some 

 plants there, but next season I will look out for the caterpillars on 

 all the different weeds I can find. Anyhow, I will make a point of 

 trying to find them and will do as you request, taking a careful note 

 and drawing of them in the event of being successful." — G. F. 

 Mathew ; Lee House, Dovercourt, Essex. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological Society. — May 11th, 1922. — 

 Mr. E. J. Bunnett, M.A., E.E.S., President, in the Chair.— Mr. C. B. 

 Leechman, of Purley, was elected a member. — Mr. H. Main exhibited 

 Thais polyxena, bred, from Hyeres, and some wingless sand-beetles — 

 Pimelia angulata — from Egypt. — Mr. E. Step, a large gall on 

 Populus alba from France, with small Diptera (Cecidomyia, sp.), 

 which had emerged, and much smaller hymenopterous inquilines. 

 He also showed larvae of the lichen-feeding Geometer, Chora 

 lichenaria. — Mr. H. Moore, Lepidoptera from New Zealand, including 

 Vanessa gonerilla, Chrysophanus sakistius, etc. — Mr. E. Adkin 

 exhibited the "brown-tail" and "gold-tail" moths, discussed their 

 names, pointing out that the former should be called Nygmia 

 phaeorrhoea and the latter Leucoma chrysorrhoea. — Mr. Staniland, 

 the beetle Melanophila acuminata from Suffolk. — Mr. Blair, for Mr. 

 Dods, the " stick-insect," Baurosius morusus, of an unusual red- 

 brown colour. — Mr. Turner, the Brazilian Longicorn Phoenicocerus 

 dejeanii, which has the antennae furnished with extraordinarily long 

 lamellae. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



