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Tlic following atlditioiis to tlio Libmvv wcro aiuunirifod : '' A Natural History 

 of tlie British Lepidoytera" vol. iv. (1901), by J VV. Tiitt,, F.E.S., prcseiitod by 

 Mr. B. H. Crabtroc, F.K.S. ; " The Report, of tiie Botanist and EnloTnologist, 

 Department of Agriculture, Dominion of Canada," by Jas. Fletcher, LL.D., F.L.S., 

 jiresented by the Author ; '• The Transactions of the City of London Entomological 

 Society, 1903;" and "The Annual Report and Proceedings, Liverpool Science 

 Students' Association, 1903," by exchange. 



A communication was read from Mr. Rd. Hancock, Handsworth, suggesting that 

 a cabinet of Entomological Micro slides should be formed. It was unanimously 

 resolved to adopt the suggestion, and to accept with thanks the valuable series of 

 fifty slides accompanying his letter, to serve as a nucleus of the collection. 



It was announced that the nest meeting woidd be held in the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, on November 21st. 



The following amongst other exhibits were examined : Agrotis ashioorthii, 

 A. agathina, including some beautiful red forms, and Epiinda lichenea, all bred 

 from Welsh larvae. Aplecta advena, Mamestra aticepx, Xylophasia hepatica, Thecia 

 priini, Phorodexma bajularia, &c., from Monkswood, Hunts, by Mr. R. Tait, jun. 

 Bred series of Agrotis askworthii, A. lucernea, Epunda lichenea^ and lioarmia 

 repandata from larva) taken during the spring in North Wales ; bred series of 

 Odontopera bidentata, ab. nigra from Manchester larvse ; variable bred aeries of 

 Ypsipetes elutata (sallow form) from Windermere, &c., by Mr. B. H. Crabtree ; 

 Melanargia galatea from North Hants and Dartmoor, and Cidaria testata from 

 Epping and Dartmoor, &c., arranged to show the unusual size of the Dartmoor 

 insects ; the blue form of Polyommatus wgon from Paignton, by Mr. H. R. 

 Sweeting, M.A. ; Noctua castanea and the var. neghcta bred from Warrington 

 larvae ; Agrotis agathina from Delamere larva; ; Mamestra ahjecta, and Crypto- 

 blabes bistrigella, a Phycid moth which has only been recorded five times from 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, by Mr. J. Collins. Series of Acidalia contiguaria and 

 Larentia ccesiata from North Wales ; TcBiiiocampa opima from Wallasey ; Leucania 

 putrescens, &c., from South Devon, by Mr. C. F. Johnson ; Agrotis ashworthii, 

 Acidalia contiguaria, Anthrocera minos, one black form and also intermediate ones, 

 by Mr. Wm. Buckley. Three specimens of Chrysophanns dispar, by the Rev. E. E. 

 Farrar. Oeometra papiHonaria, Cidaria dotata, Pseudoterpna cytisaria, Colli' 

 7norpha dominiila, &c., from Dartmoor, 1901, by Dr. P. Edwards; Lepidoplera by 

 Mr. Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S. A long series of the rare Colcopteron Anisotoma 

 ftirva, from Crosby (1904), by Mr. R. Wilding. A series of the Central and South 

 European earwig, Apterygida media, Hagenb. {albipennix, Meg.) of which our only 

 former British record is by Westwood, captured near Faversham, and exhibited by 

 Mr. A. J. Chitty, M.A. Leucophtea siirinamensix, an exotic cockroach which has 

 been found breeding amongst turfs at Fallowfield, Manchester, exhibited by the 



