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and there being no trace of yellow in the markings of the wings. Mr. Auld, a 

 hornet's nest from Ware, Herts. Mr. West (Streatham), Folia chi, L., from the 

 Lake District, one specimen being extremely dark. Mr. Herbert Williams, wine 

 corks bored by the larvae of some insect, which were doing a considerable amount of 

 damage, over two hundred bottles of port having been attacked. Mr. Forrester 

 showed Bombyx quercus, L., variety calluncB,V&\mer, from Perthshire. Mr. E. Joy, 

 Epinephele hyperanthes, L , the variety Arete and others approaching it. Mr. C. G. 

 Barrett, a variety of Argynnis Aglaia, L., taken in Norfolk, and Lyccsna argiades. 

 Mr. Oldham, Lepidoptera from Epping, including a specimen of Apamea ophio- 

 gramma, Esp., taken in the Forest, and an extremely dark form of Cerastis spadicea, 

 Hb. ; Mr. South remarked that this last species should be called ligula, as it was 

 not at all like Hiibner's figure of spadicea. Mr. Tugwell, series of Melanippe 

 galiata, Hb., from Huddersfield, and the Southern form for comparison. Mr. 

 Tugwell also exhibited a parasitic fungus which he thought was probably one of the 

 'Entomophthorce, a tribe parasitic on insects, the fungi had appeared in the mould of 

 one of his breeding cases, in which were eighty pupae of Eucosmia certata, Hb. 

 Mr. Adkin again exhibited the specimens of the Tortrix which Mr. Carpenter had 

 named Donelana, and remarked that he had been stated to have exhibited them as 

 Tortrix Steineriana, var. Dohrinana ; he had, however, when exhibiting them said 

 he considered them to be Tortrix vihurnana; he had now a specimen of the var. 

 Dohrinana from Dr Staudinger's collection, and Mr. Tutt had brought his series of 

 this variety which he had received from Herr Hoffman, and Mr. Barrett had brought 

 specimens of Steineriana. Mr. Barrett said that he had been in correspondence 

 with Mr. Carpenter on the subject, and was still of opinion that they were small 

 specimens of ciiHrwawa. Mr. Carpenter said that although the larvae had fed on 

 pine, one example had fed equally as well on Vaccinium. Mr. Tutt said in this part 

 of the genus there were some six or eight species very closely allied, and it was 

 difficult to separate them after studying the variation. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : November 4th, 1891. — Dr. David 

 Sharp, M.A., F.E.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Major John Nathaniel Still, of Tiverton, Devon, and the Junior United Service 

 Club, Charles Street, St. James's, S.W., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a series of a very dark-coloured form of Apis reared 

 by Mr. John Hewett, of Sheffield, from bees imported from Tunis, and which he 

 proposed to call " Punic Bees." They were larger than the black Apis unicolor, 

 Latr., of Mauritius and Bourbon, and were almost entirely black, except in the legs, 

 which were of a more or less reddish colour. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited five melanic specimens of Aplecta nebulosa, reared 

 by Mr. Collins, of Warrington, from larvae collected in Delamere FoiTst, Cheshire, 

 and described by him, in the " Proceedings of the Lancashire and Cheshire Natural 

 History Society," as A. nebulosa, var. Sobsoni, in honour of Mr. John E. Robson,of 

 Hartlepool. Mr. Barrett also exhibited a beautiful variety of Argynnis Aglaia, 

 taken in Norfolk by Dr. F. D. Wheeler, and two specimens (male and female) of 



