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interesting productions of its kind ever issued by a local Natural History Society. 

 About 1869 he was transferred to the Admiralty, and shortly afterwards took a 

 prominent part in the foundation of the South London Entomological Society, with 

 which he retained his connection until his death. Latterly he took up the study of 

 the Coteoptera and Hemiptera, and amassed good collections of these Orders, which 

 he disposed of a few years ago, though to the latest he retained his interest in 

 Entomology. Mr. Chaney was a man of fine physique and of wide and varied 

 reading, and a genial and hearty companion in the field ; and the writer of this 

 notice, whose deceased friend was his earliest Entomological instruclor, recalls many 

 pleasant days spent with him among the insects of the woods and chalk-downs of 

 the Chatham district.— J. J. W. 



Societies. 



Birmingham Entomological Society: October \bth, IDOfi. — Mr. G-. T. 

 Bethpne-Bakeb, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed living larvae and imagines of Hadena unanimin, Tr., 

 found on the canal bank at Marston Grreen and also at Earlswood, at both of which 

 places they were abundant. Mr. E. C Rossiter remarked that he had recently 

 come across two broods of Smerinthus populi. L., one of which occurred on common 

 poplar, and the whole brood was of the dark variety of the larva ; and the other 

 brood was upon an aspen with whitish under-side to the leaves, and all the larvae 

 belonged to the light form, and it seemed as if the larvse had followed the colour of 

 the under-side of the leaves they happened to have lived upon. Mr. G. H. Kenrick, 

 however, said that he had found both forms, the light and the dark, side by side 

 upon the common poplar. Mr. G-. H. Kenrick showed some Lepidoptera taken on 

 the Cotswolds during a short visit paid to them early in August. They included 

 Lycaena corydon. Fab., Drepana oultraria, F., Boarmici abietaria, Hb., Botys 

 hyalinalis, Hb., a nice series, &c. ; also a number of Lycsenidse from Java and the 

 Malay Archipelago. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, various Lepidoptera taken in Devon- 

 shire last July. Whilst I here he had carefully observed Satyrus xeniele,!!.. o\\^os.\t\ng, 

 with the result that he had discovered that its eggs were never laid upon the fresh 

 green grass stems, but upon the broken stems of the previous season, near the top. 

 Mr. Simkins, various Lepidoptera, including a fine series of Oastropacha querci- 

 folia, L., bred from Surrey ova. Mr. W. Harrison, Cerura furcula, L., bred from 

 larvffl obtained near Sand well Park.— Colbban J. Wainwright, Eon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: The usual Monthly 

 Meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on Monday, 

 November 19th, Mr. R. Wilding, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A paper was communicated by Mr. J. Collins of Oxford embodying his 

 observations upon the habits of Sitaris muralis, a beetle associated with the mason- 

 bee Anthophora pilipes, with specimens of both taken near Oxford. Mr. Collins 

 also sent for exhibition Apion astragali, A. sanguiyieum, Panagseus i-puttulatus, 

 and Lebia chlorocepAala, as well as the Tortrix Stigmonota pallidifrontana from 



