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Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting held at the 

 Eoyal Institution, Colquit Sti-eet, Liverpool, on Mo7iday, March llth, 191.3. — 

 Mr. F. N. Pierce, President, in the Chair. 



Professor Eobert Newstead, F.E.S., M.Sc, of the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine, delivered a lecture entitled " The Bionomics and Morphology of some 

 Blood-sucking Flies." Mr. Newstead dealt in his usual lucid and thorough 

 manner with the life cycle of representative species of the genus Glossina, or 

 tsetse flies, which convey sleeping sickness to man and " ngana " to cattle, the 

 species incriminated being Glossina morsitans and G. jialpalis. The lecturer also 

 described Stomoxys calcitrans, a world-wide species and a common stable fly in 

 Great Britain, which is strongly suspected of being concerned in the transmission 

 of trypanosomes. A very interesting life-history was that of Simulnim, whose 

 larvee live in rapidly running shallow streams ; and, lastly, the minute midge, 

 Phlehotomus papatasii (fam. Psychodidx), found commonly on the Mediterranean 

 littoral and elsewhere in subtropical and tropical countries, which carries the 

 " three days " fever from sick to health}^ persons, was described Mr. Newstead, 

 having visited many different parts of the Avorld to investigate the life cycles of 

 these insects, and liaving himself discovered many important facts concerning 

 them, was able to give a vividness to his remarks that no mere book know- 

 ledge could have done. The lecture was illustrated by blackboard drawings 

 and microscope pi'eparations showing the structure and anatomical details 

 of the insects mentioned above. Further exhibits by Mr. Newstead were two 

 specimens of Glossina severina, Newst., a. new species recently recognised from 

 the Congo Free State, and a specimen of the very rare G. fuscipletiris, Austen, 

 also a wasp, Bemhexforripata, that has only recently been found to store its larva 

 cells with the tsetse fly ; this exhibit comjirised nine flics from a single cell 

 together with the wasp. The University collection of bloodsvicking flies was also 

 on view, containing practically all the known species and many types. 

 Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited the genus Acidalia as at present arranged, and also 

 as it falls into two distinct groups when classified according to the genitalia. 

 Mr. C. E. Stott sent for exhibition a specimen of Thyreocoris scarab seoides, a 

 chalk-loving Hemipteron picked uj) on the shore at Blackpool — Wm. Mansbridoe, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, March ISth, 1913.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs of St. Albans, Mr. Geo. Brooks and Mr. Gilbert Storey of 

 the British Mixseum (Nat. Hist.) were elected Members. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited living hirv se oi Epunda lichenea and of Aplecta occulta. 

 Mr. Colthrup, some excellent photographs of well-known collecting localities and 

 of the resting positions of various species of the genera Tephrosia and Boarmia, 

 showing protective resemblance. Mr. C. B. Williams, larva of the snake-fly, 

 Bhaphidia notata, which has occurred not uncouiiiionly in pine stumps at Oxsliott ; 

 it fed readily on Aphides. Mr. Piatt Barrett, specimens of tlie true Thera 

 variata from the New Forest, where the larva' occurred on sjiruce. Mr. Brooks, 

 the larva of Geotrnpes stcrcorarius, townd umlcr a rubbish heap. Mr. A. E, Gibbs, 



