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Marlborough. — 2nd August, 1893. 



Wood ; wind N.W., rather strong ; clear, dry. At sugar : L. lithar- 

 gyria 1, C. trapezina 8, N. depuncta 5, Baja 3, C. ailuta 1, A. pyra- 

 mided 2, T. promiba 8, A. suffusa 3, Nigricans 4, Segetum 3, A', poly- 

 odon 1, C cytherea 1, ^4. oculea 4, ylf. strigilis 2, T 7 . orbona 1 — total 

 observed, 47. — H. S. May, Marlborough. 



Wimbledon Common. — 2nd August, 1893. 



Wood on the Common ; wind W., light clear, fairly dry, but dewy. 

 At sugar, Pronuba several, Cytherea 7, Baja, Oculea, Polyodon, and 

 Trapezina, in swarms; Put a 3, N. rubi many, Pyramidea 3, Impitra and 

 M. brassicce a few. There were also a few Rhomboidaria, Eupithecice, 

 and Micros at the sugar. — E. H. Taylor, Fulham. 



Bridestowe, Devon. — 2nd August, 1893. 



Wood ; wind S. ; dark, damp ; apparently a good night as far as 

 necessary conditions go, but results poor, viz. : — A. rumicis 10, A. 

 pyrajnidea 4, A. typica 1, T. orbona and pronuba numerous. — Major Still, 

 Bridestowe. 



Aberdeenshire. — 3rd August, 1893. 



Mixed wood at Moneymusk ; wind, N.W. ; cold, clear, moon shining 

 brightly ; thunderstorm and heavy rain during afternoon, dry in even- 

 ing. I captured 1 Sobrina only, a few very common things at flowers, 

 not any Sobrina as on 1st inst. At sugar a few each of Polyodon, Baja, 

 Festiva, and Pronuba — A. Horne, Aberdeen. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 28th, 1894. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Percy H. Grimshaw, of 58, Coniston Road, Edinburgh, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. Mr. McLachlan announced the sudden death, on the 23rd inst., of Mr. J. 

 Jenner Weir, who joined the Society in 1845, and had been one of its most regular 

 attendants. He also commented on the scientific attainments of the deceased and his 

 social qualities. Mr. Goss and Mr. Merrifield also spoke of their long friendship with 

 the deceased, and of the respect and esteem which they entertained for his varied 

 knowledge and amiability of disposition. Mr. W. Borrer, jun., exhibited a wasps' 

 nest, which had been built in such a way as to conceal the entrance thereto and to 

 protect the whole nest from observation. He believed the nest to be that of Vcspa 

 vulgaris (cf. Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1892, pp. xx. and xxi.). Mr. McLachlan and 

 Mr. Blandford made some remarks on the subject. Mr. G. F. Hampson exhibited a 

 specimen of Gaudaritis fiavata, Moore, from the Khari Hills, and called attention to 

 the existence in the males of this species, in the closely allied British species Cidaria 

 dotata, Linn., and also in two Japanese species (C. agues, Butl., and an undescribed 



