144 [November, 187C. 



When at Frankfort-on-the-Main in July, 1868, I saw, in Herr Miihlig's collec- 

 tion, a specimen of Tinea angustipennis, which, had been bred from rotten wood. 



Breslau, Munich, and Frankfort were the only localities known to me, till I 

 learnt that it had occurred near London.^ — H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham : 

 October \2th, 187G. 



Occurrence of GelecMa (Doryphora) morosa, Miihlig, in England. — This insect 

 has been bred by Mr. Jenkinpon from a larva found at Wicken Fen on June 13th, in 

 the shoots of Lysimachia. The perfect insect made its appearance on July 8th. Its 

 similarity to G.farinosa (which will no doubt be some day detected in localities in 

 tlie north of England, where Primula farinosa is plentiful) is so great, that any one 

 who has seen the one species can imagine the other, the ochrcous tibiae of the posterior 

 legs in G-. niorosa affording thu only striking difference ; in G . farinoscB these tibise 

 are dark grey. 



In September, 1869, I received from Wicken Fen young larvis in LysimacJiia 

 shoots, which I thought might be referable to this species, but with me they did not 

 survive the winter. — Id. 



Entomological Society of London : October 4th, 1876. — Sir S. S. Saundees, 

 C.M.G., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mons. A. P. De Borre, of Brussels, Secretary of the Belgian Entomological 

 Society, was elected a Foreign Member. 



Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Mr. N. Cooke, several interesting British 

 Lepidoptera, viz. : three examples of Crymodes exults from Loch Laggan, a long 

 series of a form of Epunda lutulenta, apparently pertaining to the var. lueneburgensis, 

 Freyer, and Sericoris irriguana, from the same locality. Also an unusually pale 

 $ of Hepialus humuli. 



Mr. Higgins sent a letter respecting the exhibition of specimens of Deilephila 

 euphorbia, said to have been taken near Harwich. [_Vide report of the Meeting for 

 Nov. 17th, 1873 (E. M. M., vol. x, p. 183), when Sphinx pinastri was recorded from 

 the same locality]. He and Mr. Janson had recently visited the locality, where they 

 were joined by the supposed finder. They were able to assert that the food-plant 

 grew at the place indicated. 



Mr. S. Stevens had received information that led him to believe that an example 

 (exhibited) of Callimorpha Hera had recently been taken at St. Margaret's Bay, 

 near Dover. 



Mr. W. Cole exhibited a fine series of Ennomos angiilaria, bred from eggs laid 

 by the same female ; the larva; having been fed vipon four different food-plants. The 

 result was negative so far as phytophagic variability was concerned. But all differed 

 in wanting much of the yellowish tint observable in captured specimens, of which a 

 series was placed by the side of those bred, for comparison. Mr. McLachlan said 

 that this result was quite in accordance with an opinion expressed by him many years 

 ago, to the effect that food has little influence in causing variation in Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Forbes exhibited a Ctirculio, found living at llighgate, amongst exotic 

 Orchids. Mr. Pascoe stated that it was apparently an Alcides. 



Mr. Enock exhibited a mounted slide of Polynema ovulorum, one of the Procto- 

 trypidce, prepared in his usual careful manner. 



Mr. Smith communicated a paper on new species of Cryptoceridce, belonging to 

 the genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus, and Cataulacus. 



A further instalment of the proposed Catalogue of British Insects — Hemiptera 

 {Ileteroptera and Homoptera, groups CicadaricB and Phytophthires) , by J. W. 

 Douglas and John Scott, was on the table. 



