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bery for determination, is a specimen of Hister marginatus, which I 
picked up one fine afternoon in June on a roadside near this town. 
Having been told it is a rare insect, I have thought that its occur- 
rence here might be worth recording. — E. A. Atmore, King’s Lynn, 
April ()fh^ 1891. 
Hybernation of Xylina semibrunnea. — can endorse Mr. 
Thurnall’s note as to hybernation of Xylma semibrunnea^ as in March, 
1889, I took one at sallow; and on April 15th, this year, a friend 
and myself visited the sallow, when my friend took one in fairly good 
condition. — A. H. Hamm, 46, Granby Gardens, Reading. April 
25M, 1891. 
Exhibition of the South London Entomological and Natural 
History Society. — Perhaps the South London Entomological and 
Natural History Society shows its inherent strength better at the 
Annual Exhibition than at any other time. The last of these, held 
on the 15th and i6th April, at the Bridge House, London Bridge, 
S.E., was in every way as successful as its predecessors, and the Society 
is to be congratulated on the magnificent lot of things collected 
together by its members. How much good such exhibitions do is 
])erhaps open to question ; that they do good certainly is not, and those 
visitors who were not specialists, but who heard Mr. F. Enoch’s lecture 
on “The Hessian Fly” must have gathered some new ideas on insect 
life which had never occurred to them before. It is impossible to deal 
with anything here except the strictly Entomological part of the Exhi- 
bition, nor indeed with the whole of that, but a few of the more im- 
portant exhibits will be noticed. The bulk of the Entomological 
exhibits were Lepidoptera, but Messrs. Lewcock and Billups exhibited 
several drawers of Coleoptera from their collections, the former gentle- 
man making a special exhibit of the genus Donacia. Mr. Billups also 
exhibited his magnificent collection of Hymenoptera, Diptera, and 
Hemiptera, the setting and arrangement of which are excellent through- 
out. Still another interesting exhibit was referable to Mr. Billups, 
viz.^ a collection of Ichneumonidae, bred during the last four years by 
members of the Societ\^, together with the imagines of their respective 
hosts, and frequently with the larvae. This was perhaps one of. the 
most generally interesting exhibits, and attracted a great deal of atten- 
tion. Mr. W. West also exhibited a most interesting box of Homo- 
ptera, collected in 1891. Among the Lepidoptera, Mr. R. Adkin exhi- 
bited his collection of British butterflies, and a very long series of 
varieties of Triphcena orbona {comes). Messrs. W. H. Tug well and J. 
R. Wellman exhibited some of their cabinet drawers, the cleanliness 
and arrangement of the series being much admired. In Mr. Tugwell’s 
exhibit, one noticed fine varieties of Arctia mendica^ A. caia and Boarmia 
repa?idata var. nigra, from the Huddersfield district. Messrs. Gregson 
and Sydney Webb exhibited varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, the 
three drawers of the latter gentleman containing some remarkable 
forms ; as also did his drawer of varieties of Vanessa urticcE. Mr. C. A. 
Briggs exhibited his drawer of lovely Colias vars., and Mr. C. Fenn, 
be ides the series of pale TeEniocampa mstabilis, mentioned in last 
month’s Record, exhibited three drawers of his beautifully set Crambidae 
and Tortrices, his vars. of the true Crambus contammellus being notice- 
able. Mr. S. J. Capper exhibited a fine series of Ccenonympha davus ; 
