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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [September 



Odontopera bidentata. — Have taken several near Onchan. 

 Crocallis elinguaria. — Widely distributed. 



Amphidasis betularia. — Mr. Gregson records its capture. I took 



a lovely large specimen at rest on a lime tree at Glen Duff, 



Lezayre, June 22nd, i8gi. 

 Boarmia repandata.— Local, Mr. Gregson records its capture near 



Ramsey, in August, i8go. 

 Boarmia rhomboidaria. — Verry common and widely distributed. 

 Boarmia perfumata. — Rare, Mr. Gregson records its capture. He 



states it is a dark variety of B. rhomboidaria. Larvae feed on Ivy. 



(To be continued.) 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



August ^th. — Mr. Frederick Du Cane Godrnan. M.A., F.R.S. President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Arthur J. Chitty, of 33, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W., and Captain E. G. 

 Watson, of 5, Lypialt Terrace, Cheltenham, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced the death of Mr. Ferdinand Grut, the Hon. Librarian 

 of the Society, and commented on the valuable services which the deceased gentle- 

 man had rendered the Society for many years past. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited Japyx solifiigus, from the Eastern Pyrenees, and stated 

 that in his opinion it was a connecting link between the Thysanuva and Dermaptera. 

 He also exhibited pupa^ of Dytiscus marginalis ; one of these was perfectly developed^ 

 with the exception that it retained the larval head ; this was owing to the larva having 

 received a slight injury to the head. Dr. Sharp also exhibited specimens of Ophonus 

 piinciicollis and allied species, and said that Thomson's characters of the three Swedish 

 species, 0 . puncticGllis, 0. brevicollis, and 0. rectanguhis, applied well to our British ex- 

 amples, and separated them in a satisfactory manner. Thomson's nomenclature, 

 however, would he thought prove untenable, as the distinguished Swede described 

 our common puncticollis as a new species under the name of rectanguhis. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a bleached specimen of Epinephele Jatiira, having the 

 right fore wing of a creamy white, blending into pale smoky brown at the base ; also 

 a long and varied series of Epinephele hyperanthus, from the New Forest and Dorking. 

 The specimens from the former locality were considerably darker and more strongly 

 marked than those from the chalk, Amongst the specimens was a variety of the 

 female with large lanceolate markings on the under side, taken in the New Forest in- 

 July, 1890, and a female from Dorking with large, clearly defined white-pupilled spots 

 on the upper side. Mr. Frohawk further exhibited drawings of varieties of the pupae 



