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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [March 



records it in July, 1870, from near Norwich ; Mr. Sheldon, in Surrey, 

 on July 1 8th ; Stainton only gives July. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



February 8th, 1893.— Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S , President, in the 

 chair. The President announced that he had nominated Mr. F. DuCane Godman, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Frederic Merrifield and Mr George H. Verrall as Vice-Presidents 

 during the Session 1893-94. Mr. Charles R. G. Hibbert, of Holfield Grange. 

 Coggeshall, Essex ; Mr. Oswald B. Lower, of Bleak House. Parkside, Adelaide, 

 South Australia'; and Mr. John Baxter Oliver, of 12, Avenue Road, St. John's 

 Wood, N.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a 

 specimen of Chcerocampa cclerio, in very fine condition, captured at light, in Hastings, 

 on the 26th September last, by Mr. Johnson. Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens 

 of Gibbium scotias and Pentarthrum huttoni, taken by Mr. Rye in a cellar in Shoe Lane. 

 He stated that the Gibbium scotias lived in a mixture of beer and sawdust in the 

 cellar, and that when this was cleaned out the beetles disappeared. The Pentarthrum 

 huttoni lived in wood in the cellar. He also exhibited Mezium affine, taken by himself 

 in a granary in Holborn Mr. McLachlan exhibited a large Noctuid moth, which 

 had been placed in his hands by Mr. R. H. Scott, F.E.S., of the Meteorological 

 Office. It was stated to have been taken at sea in the South Atlantic, in about lat. 

 28 0 S., long. 26 0 W. Colonel Swinhoe and the President made some remarks on the 

 species, and on the migration of many species of Lepidoptera. Mr. W. F. H, 

 Blandford exhibited larva and pupae of RJivnchophorus pahnarum, L., the Gru-gru 

 Worm of the West Indian Islands, which is eaten as a delicacy by the negroes and 

 by the French Creoles of Martinique. He stated that the existence of post-thoracic 

 stigmata in the larva of R. cruentatus had been mentioned by Candeze, but denied by 

 Leconte and Horn. Theu were certainty present in the larva of R.palmarum, but 

 were very minute. He also exhibited a piece of drawing wood, showing extensive 

 injury by longicorn larvas during a period extending over seven years. Mr. G. T- 

 Porritt exhibited two varieties of Arctia lubricipcda from York ; an olive-banded 

 specimen of Bombyx quercus from Huddersfield ; and a small melanic specimen of 

 Mclanippc hastata from Wharncliffe Wood, Yorkshire, Mr. H. Goss exhibited a few 

 specimens of Lepidoptera. Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Neuroptera, sent to him by 

 Major G. H. Leathern, of the 31st Regiment, who had collected them, last June and 

 July, whilst on a shooting expedition in Kashmi territory, Bengal. Some of the 

 specimens were taken by Major Leathern at an elevation of from 10,000 to 11,000 

 feet, but the majority was stated to have been collected in the Krishnye Valley, 

 which drains the glaciers on the western slopes of the Nun Kun range. 2vlr. Elwes 

 remarked that some of the butterflies were of great interest. Mr. G F. Hampson 

 exhibited a curious form of Parnassius, taken by Sir Henry Jenkyns, K.C.B., on the 

 29th of June last, in the Gasternthal, Kandersteg. Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a long 

 series of remarkable varieties of Boarmia rcpandata, taken last July in the New Forest. 

 Mr. C. O Waterhouse exhibited a photograph of the middle of the eye of a male 

 Tabanus, showing square and other forms of facets, multiplied 25 times. Mr. Roland 

 Trimen communicated a paper entitled " On some new, or imperfectly known, 

 species of South African Butterflies," and the species described in this paper were 

 exhibited. Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell communicated a paper entitled " Two new species 

 of Pulvinaria from J&maica. Mr. Martin J acoby communicated a paper entitled " Des- 

 criptions of some new genera and new species of Halticidae." 



