1904. I ;^gg 



Entomological Society of London : JiJay Ith, 190 1.— Professor E. B. 

 PouLTON, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a piece of a plant of Etipaloi-ium macrophyllum from 

 British Guiana. It was stated that the white flowers were very attractive to the 

 Lycorea, Melinxa and Mechanitis sjieeies of that region. Vast numbers were often 

 to be seen congregated on one single bush. He also exhibited a remarkable krva, 

 like a twig of birch, found on Oxshott Ileath, and, on behalf of Mr. C. P. Pickett, a 

 pupa of Rumia cratxgata, the larva of which had spun up in an empty pupa-case 

 of Fieri.i brassicie. The latter was on the roof of a breeding-cage and the 

 Geonietrid larva had crept completely inside to spin its cocoon. Mr. J. E. Collin, 

 a specimen of Corethra obscuripes, v. d. Wulp (? =C.fusca, Staeg.), a little-known 

 species of the genus, and new to the British List, which he had found in some 

 numbers at Newmarket. Mr. Gr. T. Porritt, a living larva of Agrotis ashtoorthii, 

 of which he had found considerable numbers on one of the mountains of Carnarvon- 

 shire during the last week in April. Commander J. J. Walker, a gall sent 

 him by Mr. Harold S. Mort, identified by Mr. Froggatt as Brachyscelis duplex, 

 Schrader, and found at Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, N.S.W., where it was 

 by no means common. Mr. Mort wi'ote that he thought at first it was made by 

 joining two leaves, but noticed afterwards that it grew direct from the trunk of the 

 tree (a Eucalyptus), while Mr. Froggatt had informed huii that the whole of the 

 gall (which resembled a large locust-bean), including the ears, was made by the insect. 

 Mr. Gr. H.Verrall, three specimens from the Hope Collection at Oxford of Neoitamus 

 cothurnatus, Meig., an Asilid not previously recorded as British. They were taken 

 near Oxfoi'd by Mr. W. Holland. He also stated that the Anthrax exhibited at the 

 last meeting on behalf of Mr. R. Gr. Bradley was A. circumdata, Meig., a species 

 recorded before, but not observed for more than fifty years past. The President, a 

 Longicorn beetle, Nitocris nigricornis, captured near Malvern, Natal, by Mr. C N. 

 Barker, together with a large Braconid from the same locality, bearing an extra- 

 ordinary likeness to one another on the wing, though no one would suspect a 

 similarity in the cabinet. Mr. H. J. Turner, living larvae and cases of several 

 species of the Lepidopterous genus Coleophora, and contributed notes on C. 

 conyzx, C. lixella, C. laricella, C. hemerohiella, C. .tolitarella, C. pyrrhuli- 

 peiinella, and C. alcyom'pennella. Dr. A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., communicated a 

 paper entitled " A classification of the Australian Lymantriada:." Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 communicated, and commented upon a paper by Major Neville Manders, R.A.M.C., 

 entitled "Some Breeding Experiments on Catopsilia pyranthe, and Notes on the 

 Migration of Butterflies in Ceylon." The President communicated an observation 

 of Professor Minchin's of an attack made by a bird upon a species of Ely mn las, 

 and also read part of a letter recently received from Mr. J. C. Kershaw, living at 

 Macao, throwing light upon the struggle for life endured by Rhopalocampta ben- 

 Jami.nl, a butterfly of that locality. — H. ROWLAND Beown, Mon. Sec. 



