498 EEPOETS OF MEETINGS. 



ENTOMOLOaiCAL SECTION. 



DUEING the past summer, owing principally to the exceptionaRy 

 wet season, only one out-door excursion was taken, on May 

 11th, to "Weston-super-Mare, the day being very unfavourable; the 

 captures made were very few and principally common sand-hill 

 species. Two other excursions were planned, but bad weather 

 prevented their being carried out. 



Many interesting species, both British and exotic, have been 

 exhibited during the year at the indoor meetings of the section. 

 Among the British lepidoptera may be mentioned Leilephila galii, 

 Platypteryx sicula, Stauropus fagi^ Dianthecia dlhimacula, Nasci^ 

 cilialisj Mellissollaptes cephalonica, Sfc, Sfc. Among Coleoptera, the 

 best capture in the neighbourhood for the season, was one of * 

 number of specimens of M-os mmutuSy by Messrs. E. C. Eye and 

 Mc Lachlan, during the visit of the British Association ; others 

 were afterwards captured by members of the Entomological Section. 

 A number of this pretty little rarity were captured some twelve 

 years since by Mr. Edwyn Eeed, also at Leigh "Woods, but no 

 additional specimens had occurred until Messrs. Eye and Mc Lachlan 

 re-discovered it. 



In August, Mr. J. T. H. Preston captured a specimen of IJuperia 



fulvago at Eishponds, and exhibited it at the October Meeting of the 



Section — this capture is interesting in being the only recorded 



occurrence of this fine species not only in the Bristol District, but 



also in the West of England. 



At the October Meeting of the Section, Mr. A. E. Hudd read the 

 following note on Solenolia pomonoe and Xymastodoma melanella. 



"Some years since, in 1869, Mr. Harding published in the 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, Yol. YL, pp. 91-93, some notes 

 on these species, in which, from the fact of having bred both forms 



