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a member of the Borough Council ; and as illustrating the interest of his family in 

 such matters, it may be mentioned that his father was Mayor of Hartlepool so long 

 aso as 1855.— G. T. P. 



BIRMI^fG^AM; Entomological Society : January 2.\d, 1907. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethcne-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a beautifully varied series of Hiihernia de foliar la, CI. 

 It included specimens, almost unicolorous, of a dark umber colour ; otiiers with the 

 same dark umber colour as a ground colour with dark bands or bars, in some cases 

 broad, dark, nearly black and sharply defined ; then there were the usual light 

 brown ones ; tlie usual ones with light ground colour and cross-bars of various 

 widths and intensity, including some the bars on which were nearly black, broad, 

 and sharply defined. Mi*. Hubert Langley, various Lepidoptera from near 

 Leamington, including Lyinantria monacJia, L., which is not uncommon in one or 

 two woods, Boarmia rohoraria, Schiff., Myelois crihrella, Hbst. Mr. L. Doncaster 

 made an appeal for help in connection with the Royal Society's enquiry into pro- 

 gressive melanism. iMr. W. E. Collinge showed an unknown Dipterous larva 

 supposed to have caused damage to currant bushes, but which he believed to be 

 carnivorous, and only accidentally associated with the currants ; it had been seen 

 by Mr. G. H. Verrall and Dr. Sharp, but seemed to them to belong to a previously 

 unknown type of larva. Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker, a beautiful series of Pieridx 

 belonging to tlie genus Delias from New Guinea and Australia, and including 

 several new species. 



February 28th, 1907. — Annual Meeting. The President in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed living Pieris rapx, L., and Larentia multistrigaria, 

 Haw., the former captured on the wing on February 15th, the latter bred. Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Eliis, the following Coleoptera :—Barijnotus schonherri, Zett., fr»m 

 Knowle, a species new to the Midland list; Anchomenus pnellus, Dej., a species 

 which he had taken several times in frozen reeds near Birmingham, but could get in 

 no other way ; and two or three specimens of a form of OUsthopus rotundatus, Pk., 

 he had taken at Bewdley, which differed from the normal form in the much lesser 

 proportional width of the thorax in relation to the elytra and also the more 

 slender build of the whole insect— it looked quite a different species. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, a box of gorgeous moths from New Guinea, chiefly belonging to the 

 Geometrid genus Milionia, though others belonged to the Agaristidse. They 

 included several new species.— Colbean J. Wainweight, Eon. Sec. 



Lancashiee and Cheshire Entomological Society: The usual Monthly 

 Meeting of this Society was held in the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, 

 on Monday, January 21st, 1907, Mr. W. Mansbeidge, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. J. Wightman, of Reigate, was elected a Member of the Society. 



A paper was read by Mr. F. N. Pierce, entitled " Notes on the Structure 



