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LONDON. Entomological Society, October 19. mdash;Prof. E. B, Poulton, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a series of Lozopera deaurana, Peyr., bred last spring at Hyères, a species regarded as lost, or mythical, until he re-discovered it three years ago at lie Ste. Marguerite, Cannes. He also exhibited on behalf of Mr. Hugh Main a specimen of Pieris brassicae, the anterior and posterior wings of which had been symmetrically injured, probably by the girdle when in the pupal stage.—Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited specimens of Nothorrhina muricata, Dalm., from Las Navas, Spain, found trapped in the earthenware cups used to collect the exuding resin on the trunks of pines.— Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of the rare beetle, Cis bilamellatus, Wood, taken at Shirley on October 10 last.—Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a O specimen of the rare dragonfly Agrion armatum. He said that a and a were taken in the Broads by Mr. F. B. Browne last year, and this year about ten more, probably all o o, were taken in the same district. Besides these there are possibly no other examples in Britain. It is quite distinct from our other six blue Agrionines in form and colouring.—Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited five specimens of Dianthoecia luteago, var. ficklini, from North Cornwall, taken during the first week of July, 1901, and remarked that while the typical D. luteago of the Continent was tolerably constant, wherever it occurred in Britain it assumed a special local form.—Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited a number of specimens of the genus Sphecodes, five species in all, and of Ocyptera brevicornis, a Tachinid, their mimetic fly, illustrative of Mr. Edward Saunders's recent paper on the aculeate Hymenoptera from the Balearic Islands and Spain.—Mr. C. A. J. Rothney sent for exhibition a series of the Indian ant Myrmicaria fodiens, from a colony established thirty-two years in the big banyan tree in Barrackpore Park; and specimens of Monomorium salomonis, Lin., and Solenopsis geminata, Fab., successfully encouraged in Madras as a protection against white ants—termites.—Mr. E. E. Green exhibited a spider from Ceylon mimetic of some coccinellid beetle, at present unidentified.—Colonel J. W. Yerbury exhibited specimens, and read notes upon, deer gadflies taken by him this year in Scotland.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 71, 23–24 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071023a0
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