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Newman also exhibited four curious 2 specimens of A. coridon, three 

 having the right pair of wings much smaller than the left and heavily 

 dusted with blue scales, the left side being normal ; also one specimen 

 similar but vice versa. Gynandromorphous Gonepteryx cleopatra. — 

 Capt. E. B. Purefoy exhibited a short series of G. cleopatra which 

 included two gynandromorphous specimens. An Irish Pterostichus 

 ATERRiMus. — Dr. G. W. Nicholson showed a specimen of Pterostichus 

 aterri)tiiis, Pk., from Cloverhill, Co. Cavan. The only other Irish 

 record is from the Co. Cork. Aberration of Telchinia viol^. — Mr. 

 E. E. Green exhibited a transfer of a remarkable aberration of 

 Telchinia violae, Fab., taken by Mr. G. Halkett, in the district of 

 Kurunegala, Ceylon. He also showed transfers of the normal form. 

 Parasitised Jassid^e. — Also Jassidae from Ceylon, parasitised by an un- 

 determined species of Gonatopus. Acanthocinus .edilis from Bow. — 

 The Kev. G. Wheeler exhibited on behalf of Miss Macbride a number 

 •of living specimens of the Longicorn beetle A. aedilis, L., taken at 

 Bow. Butterflies from the Sudan. — Dr. Longstaff exhibited on 

 behalf of Mrs. Waterfield, a box of Sudanese Pierine Butterflies taken 

 by her, and on which she contributed notes. Insects bred by Mr. 

 W. A. Lamborn from the nests of Hymenoptera Aculeata. — The 

 material of the following observations made at Moor Plantation was 

 exhibited by Prof. Poulton. 1. A male Megachile cincta (September 

 17th), and the Cantharid beetle Zonitis eborina, Fahr, (September 17th). 

 *' A nest made by Megackile was found in an outhouse on June 5th, 

 1913. A Megachile emerged on September 17th, and a bright pink 

 beetle left the same cell on the same day." 2. Odynerus sp. inc. 

 (September 17th) : — " A large mud nest, which I thought belonged 

 to Megachile, was found in an outhouse July 24th. A small wasp 

 emerged on September 17th." 3. kiemoXQ Matilla jioralis,\i\\io. — . 

 " This female Mutillid emerged July 26th, from a mud nest, probably 

 that of Sceliphron spirifex, L., found July 14th." 4. Chrijsis {Tetra- 

 I'hnjsis) sp. inc. (July 26), Chrgsis [Tetrachrysis) Igncea, F. (August 3rd), 

 and Sceliphron spirifex, L., J (July 31st). All three inects emerged at 

 the recorded dates from "mud nest of S. spirifex, found in my store 

 July 20th." 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — October 20th, 

 1913. Exhibitions. — Mr. W. Mansbridge brought a long bred series 

 of Hadena glauca from Burnley, some of which shewed a strong 

 melanic tendency ; also from Burnley the melanic variation of 

 Ematurga atumaria, Hgria rnaricata, purple form, and Caenongmpha 

 ■tgphon var. rothliebii from Witherslack ; Nyssia zonaria from the 

 Crosby Sandhills and the insects captured on the occasion of the 

 Society's Field Meeting at Mold, on June 7th, 1913, including 

 Lobophoraviretata, Cnephasia )iiusciilana, Capua favillaceana, Arggrolepia 

 hartinanniana and Agriopis aprilina (larva). Mr. R. Tait showed a 

 long and variable series of the beautiful melanic form of Boaniiia 

 repandata from Pennaenmawr, also bred Agrotis lucernea from the 

 same district ; varieties of Abraxas grossiilariata, including ab. varleyata 

 bred from various localities in 1913 ; Aplecta nehulosa var. robsoni and 

 Geonietra papiliomaria from Delamere ; tiecatera serena and Calligenia 

 miniata from Sussex. Mr. Tait also gave an account of his collecting 

 holiday in Sussex, from which it appeared that Lepidoptera had been as 

 •difficult to obtain in the South of England as in the North during 

 the past summer. Mr. Johnson exhibited a long and fine series of 



