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SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of Hampshire. — A Hampshire County 

 List of Lepidoptera is in course of preparation. It is hoped that all 

 entomologists who can help will do so by sending lists, especially of 

 the Microlepidoptera, to Mr. W. Fassnidge, 47, Tennyson Eoad, 

 Southampton. 



Entomological Society of London. — October ith, 1922. — Mr. 

 Eobert Adkin, Vice-President, in the Chair. — Obituary : — The deaths 

 of the following Fellows were announced and a vote of condolence 

 with their relatives was passed: Dr. David Sharp, F.K.S., one of the 

 special Life Fellows of the Society; Mr. Hamilton H. Druce ; Mr. 

 Arthur Home ; Mr. Frank M. Littler ; and Mr. G. O. Sloper.— The 

 Collection of Portraits : The Treasurer made a statement as to four 

 new portraits that had recently been hung in the Meeting Koom, and 

 a portrait of the late Dr. Sharp, presented by Mr. W. J. Lucas, for 

 addition to the collection, was gratefully accepted. — Election of 

 Fellotos : — The following were elected Fellows of the Society: Messrs. 

 Guy Babault, 10, Eue Camille-Perier, Chaton, Seine-et-Oise, France ; 

 Albert E. Waight, Brunleigh, Kent Bank Boad, Grange-over-Sands. 

 Exhibits : Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited some moths from the Farn 

 Collection, including the rare type form of Sarrothripus revayana 

 Scop., as well as ab. ramosana Hb., and ab. degenerana Hb., also 

 Acrobasis tumidana Schiff., and A. zelleri Bag. — Professor Poulton, 

 F.B.S., exhibited and made remarks on a living example of 

 Polygonia c-album. — Mr. Arthur Dicksee exhibited some rare butter- 

 flies from Ecuador. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.B.S., commented on some 

 recent observations he had made on the scent of butterflies, chiefly 

 Pierines. — Mr. H. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of Aulonium 

 ruficorne 01., and Hypophloeus fraxini Kug, two beetles new to the 

 British list taken in the Forest of Dean. 



October 18th, 1922.— Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, M.A., F.B.S., 

 etc., Vice-President, in the Chair. — Election of Fclloios : The following 

 were elected Fellows of the Society : Messrs. S. Stuart Light, Bedcot, 

 Linton Boad, Hastings ; G. H. E. Hopkins, Downing College, Cam- 

 bridge ; V. G. L. van Someren, C.M.Z.S., etc., Nairobi, Kenya Colony. 

 ■ — Exhibitions : Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a series of both sexes of 

 Leptura rubra taken in Norfolk. — Dr. K. Jordan, F.B.S., exhibited 

 some Notodontid Moths the males of which have a remarkable organ 

 on the side of the abdomen. The function of this seems to be to 

 transmit scent from the abdomen to the hairy hind tibia and hind 

 wing. — Professor E. B. Poulton read a communication from Dr. 

 B. C. L. Perkins, F.B.S., on seasonal changes in the colours of the 

 female of A. bellargus, and exhibited specimens of males of Pa/pilio 

 dardanus from Kibwezi, Kenya Colony, in which the colouring of the 

 hind wing was of the western pattern. He also exhibited a living 

 and healthy larva of Abraxas grossulariata, the only survivor of a 

 fifth inbred" generation that had been sleeved out on Primus pissardii 

 as long ago as the 21st July, 1921.— Papers /—The following papers 

 were read: On Schmit-Goebel's Types of Carabidio, by Mr. 11. B. 



