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ham. Mr. G-. T. Bethune-Baker exhibited two drawers from his collection, con- 

 taining the genus Aporia, and parts of the genera Parnassius and Pieris. He 

 pointed out how naturally Parnassius run into Aporia through Mnemosyne, in 

 which all the red and some of the black markings have gone, and Stubbendorfii, in 

 which the dark colour is nearly confined to the nervures ; also th&t Aporia runs into 

 Pieris through Aporia Hippia and Pieris Melete. 



September 20th, 1897.— Mr. E. C. Bradley in the Chair. 



Mr. Or. W. Wynn exhibited a nice series of Taniocampa opima, bred from larvce 

 from the Cheshire coast ; also the following insects (all bred) from Wyre Forest : — 

 Orgyia gonostigma, Notodonta trepida, Asphalia ridens, Qeometra papilionaria, 

 Amphydasys prodromaria, and a nice little series of Endromis versicolor, reared 

 from a colony of thirteen larvse found ; also Leucoma salicis bred from larvae found 

 neg,r Coventry ; a nice series of Melanthia albiciUata from Sutton larvse, and Heca- 

 tera serena found near Kidderminster. Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a series of 

 Dianthoecia capsincola bred from larvae found locally at Small Heath, &c. ; also a 

 specimen of Lyccena argiolus ? , which was small, and with the right wing bleached, 

 the outer portion being whitish and the basal half blue as usual ; also a specimen of 

 Lycmna Corydon 3 from Swanage, with the white of the hind marginal spots so 

 much extended, that on the fore-wings the black was only left on the nervures, and 

 on the hind-wings the white appeared as large submarginal spots with small dark 

 centres. Mr. R. C. Bradley, Cynomyia mortuorum, which he had taken the day 

 before at Droitwich ; he had not known of this species formerly in the Midlands. 

 Mr. P. W. Abbott, three specimens of Aporia crateegi, taken by Mr. H. Douglas 

 Stockwell near Dover on June 22nd last ; also he showed, in conjunction with Mr. 

 Albert J. Hodges, short series each of Leucania albipuncta, Caradrina ambigua, 

 Heliothis peltiger, and Laphygma exigua, all taken in South Devon during August 

 last. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott and Mr. Hodges between them secured twenty-four 

 L. exigua, and three other entomologists working near them obtained the same 

 number. — Colbean J. Wainweight, Hon. Secretary. 



Cambridge Entomological and Nattteal Histoey Society : October 

 \Uh, 1897. 



Mr. Rickard exhibited a specimen of C. Celerio taken recently in Cambridgeshire, 

 and an imago of Car/?oca/).sa 5n/<j7aw*, reared from the so-called "jumping bean;" 

 also some small ichneumons bred from a probably Deltoid larva ; he said that they 

 were peculiar in that they did not kill their host, and he believes that they inhabit 

 the alimentary canal of the caterpillar, and escape by the anus ; he had seen the 

 caterpillar carrying the cocoon made by one of these larvae, holding it with the anal 

 claspers for some days, as if to incubate it. Mr. Farren, a var. of -D. conspersa from 

 Shetland, C. corylata var. alhocrenata from Rannoch, and T. gothica \ a,r. gothiciyia 

 from Loch Laggan. Dr. Sharp, several South American cocoons of two species, one 

 Bombycoid, the other Psychid : one of the former contained a large ichneumon 

 cocoon in which again were smaller ones of another species, while two others had 



