214 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, May 3rd, 

 1922.— The Et. Hon. Lord Eofchschild, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — The President announced the death of Mr. A. W. Bacot, of 

 York Cottage, York Hill, Loughton, Essex, and of Mr. Gilbert Storey, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt, and a vote of 

 condolence was passed to their relatives. — The following were elected 

 Fellows of the Society : Mr. C. L. Collenette, c/o Messrs. Barker & 

 Co., Singapore ; and Mr. Michael G. L. Perkins, 4, Dean's Yard, 

 Westminster Abbey, S.W. 1, and Trinity College, Cambridge. — The 

 Treasurer called attention to additions to the collection of portraits 

 in the meeting room, and especially to a beautiful pencil drawing 

 from a photograph of the late Dr. Longstaff. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon 

 exhibited a series of Pararge roxelana from Herculesbad, and P. 

 climene from Sarepta. — Prof. E. B. Poulton, P.E.S., illustrated some 

 of his remarks with lantern -slides, and read some notes on the life- 

 history of Gatochrysops phasma, and on the life-history of a Bethylid 

 of the genus Gephalonomia, Westw., observed at Oxford by Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm ; he also read some interesting notes on the habits of the 

 Driver-ant Dorylus nigricans, Illig., in Tanganyika Territory. — 

 Mr. C. L. Withycombe exhibited larvae of an adult of Osmylus 

 chrysops with some enlarged figures of them, and also some larvae of 

 the mosquito Taeniorhyncus richiardi taken in Epping Forest. — 

 The following papers were read : " The Mallophaga of the Oxford 

 University Expedition to Spitzbergen," by Dr. J. Watersfcon, B.D., 

 D.Sc. ; " The Dasytinae of South Africa," by Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 F.Z.S., A.L.S. ; " A Monograph of the Genus Gatochrysops,'" by 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S. ; and " The Species of the Genus 

 Larinopoda," by Dr. H. Eltringham, M.A., D.Sc, F.Z.S.— S. A. 

 Neave, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History 

 Society.— M ay 25th.— Mr. E. J. Bunnett, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — -Mr. Step exhibited the beetles Necrophorus vespillo and 

 Silpha thoracica from a dead toad at Ockham, and Mr. Withycombe, 

 the asparagus beetle Grioceris asparagi, now common at Enfield. — 

 Mr. E. Adkin read a paper, " The Lepidopterous Enemies of Man." 



June 8th.— Mr. E. J. Bunnett, F.E.S., President, in the Chair.— 

 Mr. Step exhibited a Vespa germanica, $ , which had hibernated in a 

 chimney and was so misleadingly black as to suggest a new species ! — 

 Mr. Enefer an Acronicta alni, of which he had found three larvae at 

 Penzance in August, 1921. — Mr. Withycombe, a Neuropteron, the 

 rare Chrysopa dorsalis, bred from a pine-feeding larva at Oxshott in 

 1921.— Mr. Preston, butterflies from Macedonia, and Mr. Bunnett, 

 ova, larvae and imagines of Melasoma populi (Col), from Oxshott, 

 where it was found very commonly.— Mr. Step said that the Cleora 

 lichenaria^ larvae he had shown at a previous meeting had extended 

 their feeding two or three weeks beyond the normal time and were 

 found to be ichneumoned, except one which had developed to an 

 imago in the normal period.-^-Mr. Coulson reported the capture of 



