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the description. To me it appeared of a whiter green ground not yellow, and 

 the spotting more developed, i.e. a whiter and blacker larva than any I ever 

 saw alive before or since. 



My answer to Mr. Briggs' last remark is that I have not visited the New 

 Forest since 1873. The insect was common in 1874 and 1875, and possibly 

 later, but it is common knowledge that it was incessantly worked. 



Personally, I shall not continue this discussion further ; if Mr. Briggs can 

 prove me wrong in my deductions, and that meliloti, Esp., has five round 

 spots, by getting continental specimens so spotted ; not in a facon de parler 

 mais tout-a-fait rondes, alors je lui cederai ma plume. 

 6, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 



In view of the recent controversy as' to this insect, I have great pleasure 

 in recording its rediscovery in the New Eorest last month, by Mr. E. G. Meek. 

 The locality is at a little distance from its old one, and as is always the case 

 with these isolated colonies of Zygoma, there is a slight difference to be 

 noticed in the specimens. The difference is in two particulars : 1st, that the 

 border to the hind wings is broader ; and 2nd, that the upper middle spot 

 is long instead of round in a larger number of specimens than was the case 

 in the specimens from the old locality, these differences not necessarily occur- 

 ring in the same specimens. Typical trifolii and intermediate specimens 

 were flying with them. I may add that Mr. Meek also took A. caliginosa 

 and a nice series of E. cribrum. — C. A. Briggs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 

 13th August, 1888. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

 August 1st, 1888. — Dr. D. Sharp, F.L.S , President, in the chair. 

 The Rev. R. Walton-Lewis, B.A., of Cape Colony, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., exhibited a large number of species of 

 Lepidoptera and Diptera recently collected for him in Mexico by Mr. Herbert 

 Smith. 



Mr. White exhibited a specimen of Osmylus maculatus, taken by him on 

 the Snort, near Sawbridgeworth, in July last, He also exhibited parasites 

 bred from Bombyx neustria, and a living example of Heterodes Guyoni, found 

 at Dartford, and believed to have been introduced with Esparto grass from 

 Tunis. 



