With respect to the time of occurrence, Mr. Arnold tells me he took Euthemonia russula and Argynnis Adippe the same day, but does not know the date, this would point to the early days of July, or possibly to the latter part of June. The specimen was taken on heathy ground in Sussex, somewhere near Tunbridge Wells. He does not remember seeing any other small fritillaries that day. He does remember that he noticed the dullness of the under-side at the time, but thought it was owing to the specimens having been for some time on the wing. This circumstance makes him certain of the exact locality in which he caught them. I may add, that I have looked over Mr. Arnold's collection, which consists of the more conspicuous English Macro-Lepidoptera-there were no other rarities among them.-E. N. BLOOMFIELD, Guestling Rectory: 26th December, 1882. [This is not the first time that we have heard of the occurrence of Argynnis Dia in this country, though to many of our younger readers the announcement will have all the charm of novelty. The chance of any error through the transposition of specimens seems precluded by the following considerations:-1st, The captor has never purchased any butterflies at all; 2nd, he has never been abroad, nor received any insects from abroad; and 3rd, he has never exchanged insects. There is, however, still the possibility of the insect having been accidentally introduced.-EDS.] Obituary. George Wailes died at his residence, Gateshead, on the 30th October, 1882, in the 80th year of his age. In him we have lost one of those zealous Entomologists who could speak with the authority of more than 50 years' personal experience. J. F. Stephens, in his "Illustrations," quotes observations of George Wailes as to the appearance of many insects in the neighbourhood of Newcastle-on-Tyne, from the year 1828 forwards. This would imply that he had been an active collector and observer of insects for some time before 1828. George Wailes was not prolific as an author, and his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland and Durham, which appeared in 1858 in the Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club (noticed in the Entomologist's Annual for 1859, p. 169) was his longest work. His remarks therein on the specific identity of Polyommatus Artaxerxes and Agestis are of extreme interest; a copious extract of these notes was reprinted in the pages of the Zoologist for 1858, pp. 6278-6281. Hagen, in his Bibliotheca Entomologica, only enumerates twelve productions from his pen, but there are several minor notes of his in the early volumes of the Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer. His very last notice in 1860 on Bombylius major reminds us that one of his earliest essays was on the characters of the European Diptera, from Meigen's Systematische Beschreibung, which appeared in the Magazine of Natural History for 1832. He certainly excelled as a letter writer, his neat hand-writing, and the amount of geniality he threw into the subject, rendered the arrival of a letter from him an unfailing source of pleasure. He was a solicitor, and I remember how on one occasion he remarked that in his early Entomological career he had much neglected the smaller moths, but had For excused himself on the plea that "De minimis non curat lex." But afterwards he devoted much attention to the Micro-Lepidoptera, and was one of the first to breed the little Cemiostoma of the Genista tinctoria, now known as Wailesella. many years he was the Conservative registration agent for South Northumberland. More than twenty years ago Mr. Wailes began to be afflicted with deafness, and this infirmity increased to such an extent as to debar him from his usual intercourse with his friends. When unable to continue his Entomological pursuits, he turned his attention to horticulture. He was twice married, but had no family.-H. T. S. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON: 1st November, 1882.-H. T. STAINTON, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited two immature examples of a species of Conocephalus, found living in Messrs. Veitch's hot-houses. He thought they were probably C. ensiger, Harris, an American species. Mr. Billups maintained that the beetles submitted to him as having caused damage to beer casks in Rangoon, were Tomicus Saxeseni (cf. ante, p. 120 and p. 144). Mr. Pascoe exhibited a curious spider's nest from Sardinia; it consisted of a silken bag partially covered with small stones, and was formed close to the ground. Mr. George Lewis exhibited three species each of the families Histeridæ, Syntelidæ, and Lucanidæ, illustrating his remarks on the Syntelida, as given in the Ent. Mo. Mag., ante p. 137. Mr. Butler communicated the concluding portion of his paper on the Lepidoptera of Chili, collected by Mr. Edmonds: this part comprised Micro-Lepidoptera, and supplementary Noctuidæ, &c. December 6th, 1882.-The President in the Chair. Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Bignell, examples of Platymetopus undatus, the new British Homopteron noticed in Ent. Mo. Mag., ante p. 155. Mr. Meldola exhibited a small moth in bad condition, sent by Dr. Fritz Müller, from Brazil, interesting because Dr. Müller assured him that it had been seen to deposit living larvæ, and hence was viviparous. The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited specimens of Cryptophagus validus, found on beer casks in his cellar in Sussex; he had found larvæ feeding on a fungus on the casks, and thought they were those of the beetle. Lord Walsingham exhibited examples of Niptus hololeucus, sent to him from Scotland, and which were reported to have damaged silver plate; at any rate, there were holes in the plate on which the insects were found; he suggested that there might be some corrosive property in the fæces of the insects. Sir S. S. Saunders exhibited and reported upon fig-insects from Madagascar, collected by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan; the remarkable thing about them was that they only had four legs, the intermediate pair being obsolete. He also read a letter from M. André respecting the terminal segments of Halticella. Professor Westwood communicated notes on M. Giraud's statements respecting the Eurytomida. Mr. Cameron forwarded descriptions of ten new species of Nematus from Scotland. Dr. Sharp sent a revision of the genus Tropisternus in the Hydrophilidæ. Mr. Meyrick sent an elaborate memoir on the classification of the Tineina, in which he attempted to shew that schemes based upon European forms only, will not bear the test of scrutiny, when applied to those of Australia, New Zealand, &c. He also dwelt largely on the importance of structural characters in Lepidoptera, as opposed to those ordinarily taken from markings, &c. January 17th, 1883.-Anniversary Meeting. The President in the Chair. It was announced that the prize of £50, offered by Lord Walsingham, for the best essay on Sclerostoma syngamus (see notice of meeting for October 1st, 1879, vol. xvi, p. 140), had been awarded to Dr. Mégnin, of Paris (two competitors); no essay regarding Strongylus pergracilis had been received. The following were elected Members of Council for the ensuing year, viz. :—J. W. Dunning, M.A., F.L.S., E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., F. D. Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Rev. H. S. Gorham, F. Grut, F.L.S., W. F. Kirby, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., J. W. May, K.N.L., F. P. Pascoe, F.L.S., E. Saunders, F.L.S., J. W. Slater, H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., and C. O. Waterhouse. The following officers were subsequently elected,' viz. :—President, J. W. Dunning; Treasurer, E. Saunders; Secretaries, E. A. Fitch and W. F. Kirby; Librarian, F. Grut. The outgoing President read an address, which was ordered to be printed, and the meeting terminated with the usual votes of thanks to the officers for their services during the past year. ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH ANTHOMYIIDÆ. BY R. H. MEADE. (continued from p. 148). 20. PHORBIA, R. Desv. Anthomyia, p. Meig., Schin., Macq., Walk. Chortophila, p. Macq., Rond. Gen. ch.-Eyes bare, contiguous or sub-contiguous in the males, remote in the females; arista tomentose or bare; face slightly prominent; abdomen depressed, oblong, or linear; alulets small, with equal-sized scales; wings with the anal veins prolonged to the margin; legs black. 1. FLOCCOSA, Macq., Rond. floralis?, Fall. 2. TRANSVERSALIS, Zett. 4. DISSECTA, Meig. brevicornis ?, 9. HISTRIO, Zett. Zett. 10. CILICRURA, Rond. 11. TRICHODACTYLA, Rond. 13. IGNOTA, Rond. 14. CEPETORUM. sp. n. ceparum?, Meig. 15. NEGLECTA, sp. n. 16. EXIGUA, sp. n. parva?, Desv., Macq. This genus contains a rather heterogeneous collection of small flies, including all those black-legged species whose males have contiguous eyes, which cannot be placed in any of the preceding genera. Several small species are embraced in this group which are very difficult to determine, as they are very much alike, and do not possess any very marked distinctive characters. Several different species have, I believe, been described under the same name, and I think that the same species may have been described under different names; so that it is very difficult to arrive at just conclusions. The females of distinct species are, in some cases, so similar, that it is almost impossible to name them correctly, unless they are found associated with the corresponding males. P. FLOCCOSA, Macq. The males of this common species may at ance be recognised by the tuft of hairs on the under-side of the base of the hind femora, and by the inner sides of the hind tibiæ being ciliated along the middle part of their inner surfaces with a series of short bristles of unequal lengths. There is but little doubt that this species is the same as the M. floralis, of Fallén, Meigen, Zetterstedt, Schiner, and others; for the general descriptions of both species agree together, though none of the last-named authors mention the tufted femora. The face is rather prominent; the eyes (of male) sub-contiguous; the arista pubescent; the thorax marked with three rather broad and widely separated stripes; the abdomen narrow and rather tapering, with a wide, black, dorsal, longitudinal stripe, which becomes narrower towards its extremity, and is more or less dilated opposite the upper margin of each segment, which is marked with a narrow, transverse, black line. The female has the eyes separated by a white, intra-ocular space, occupying about a third of the width of the head, containing a wide central stripe, usually red at its front part, and black behind; but sometimes entirely black. The thorax and abdomen are both lighter in colour than in the male, and are indistinctly striped; the latter is oblongo-ovoid in shape, with the apex pointed. The larvæ feed upon the stems of cauliflowers and other varieties of the cabbage tribe. I have received specimens of the fly from Mr. Inchbald, bred from the first, and I reared several myself last summer from cabbage plants sent to me by Mr. Dunn, of Dalkeith, in consequence of their being infested with the "grubs of the cabbage-fly." The larvæ of A. floralis are said, by Zetterstedt and Schiner, to feed upon radishes (Raphanus sativus), and Winnertz has bred this fly from the roots of Brassica napobrassica. P. TRANSVERSALIS, Zett. This species has the abdomen oblong, flattened, rather short, covered with soft hairs, and marked along the dorsum with a widish, longitudinal, black band of even width, interrupted opposite the edges of the segments, which are bordered by a whitish line. The thorax is very dark grey, marked with three indistinct, longitu dinal, black bands, and has light grey sides. Zetterstedt says that the alulets are “sordide albida,” but I have found both these and the halteres to be usually of an orange colour. This is rather a local species. I have found it abundantly in a plantation near Bradford, and have received specimens from Mr. Inchbald, which he had bred from the leaves of Rumex acetosa, which are mined, or, rather, blotched, by the larvæ. P. PUDICA, Rond. This is a pretty, bright-looking fly, about the same size as the last (6 mm. long), but having the abdomen rather more elongated and pointed. The thorax is of a glistening whitish-grey colour, lighter on the front margin and on the shoulders; it is marked by a central black stripe, which only extends along the anterior half, and by two very wide lateral bands, which reach the bases of the wings. The abdomen is of a slight pinkish-grey colour (sometimes glaucous), with a slender, continuous, tapering, longitudinal, black stripe. The sub-anal male appendages are small. The hind tibiæ are armed with a few bristles towards the upper part of their inner sides. I do not know the female. Not uncommon. P. DISSECTA, Meig. This rare species is characterized by having yellowish-brown wings, sub-contiguous eyes (in the male), a nearly bare arista, a dull, dark grey thorax, with cinereous shoulders, and three, rather indistinct, black stripes, an oblong, flattened, rather narrow, abdomen, of a light grey colour, clothed with numerous soft hairs, and marked with an interrupted dorsal black stripe, formed by four triangular spots, the bases of which are dilated into transverse bands opposite the upper edge of each segment. It has straight, perpendicular, external, transverse veins to the wings, and the male hind tibiæ are armed with a few short bristles of uneven lengths in the middle of their inner sides. I have not seen a female. I captured one male at Thorparch, near York, in August, 1878, another at Silverdale, in Lancashire, in May, 1881, and a third near Bicester, Oxon, in June, 1882. P. INCOGNITA, Rond. This species, of which I have only seen one British male example, captured by the late F. Walker, closely resembles P. dissecta by its brown wings and other general characters, but differs by having a more pubescent arista, narrower cheeks, a more nigrescent thorax, and a narrower abdomen, which is marked with much larger triangular spots, which cover the greater part of the dorsum. I possess a typical continental male specimen which was named by the late Professor Rondani. I do not know the female. P. LACTUCE, Bouché. This species is of a deep rich brownish-black colour with brown wings. The eyes of the male are contiguous, with the frontal triangle red; the arista is pubescent: the cheeks rufous; the thorax with a cinereous tinge on the shoulders and sides; the abdomen is oblong and flattened, of an uniform brown colour, when |