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placed under that unsatisfactory heading " Reputed British Species/' a sort 

 of Hades to which the names of species that we have great hope but lirtle 

 expectation of getting are relegated. 



It may therefore be interesting to supplement the record of the re-discovery 

 of Tortrix piceana in Hampshire, given by Mr. Capper (ante 217, :22 t), by 

 captures that have come under my observation during the past few years. 



So long ago as 1555, while spending a sunny afternoon among the Surrey 

 pine woods, a single specimen was netted, in the following year another was 

 bred from a larva found in a shoot of hr, the needles of which were spun 

 together, and since that time two others have been noted from the same 

 locality, one being captured and the other bred. 



The two localities where it has been taken being some miles apart we may 

 hope that we have so far tapped only the outskirts of its habitat, and that 

 by working suitable country between the two we may strike its head -quarters 

 and find it firmly established, and in considerably larger numbers than have 

 been thus far recorded. 

 November i6th, 1S8S. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



November lth } 1555. — Dr. D. Sharp, E.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. H. Stuart Fremlin, M.R.C.S., of Mereworth, Maidstone, and Mr. G. 

 V. Hudson, of Wellington, New Zealand, were elected Fellows. 



Mons. A. Waillj exhibited a large and interesting collection of Butterflies 

 recently received from the Gold Coast and other parts of West Africa. The 

 collection included about forty-seven species belonging to the genera Papilio, 

 Liader/ia, Salamis, Romalaosoma, Charaxes, Harma, Eurypheme, Juuonla, 

 Aterica, Bypauis, Eurytela, Mycalesis, Cyresiis, Nepheronia, Mylothris, 

 Belenois, &c. Mons. Wailly stated that several of the species were undes- 

 cribed, and were not represented in the Biitish Museum Collections. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited four bred specimens of Ant-lions, two of which 

 were from Saxon Switzerland, and the other two from Fontainb'eau. He 

 stated that he believed the specimens belonged to two distinct species. 

 Mr. M'Lachan said that the specimens all belonged to one species, viz. 

 Myrmeleon for micarius , A net. = europ&us, M'Lach. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited an example of Pteroplwrus zetterstedtii, taken 

 at Sydenham. He remarked that this species had hitherto only been 

 recorded from Lynmouth and Folkestone. 



