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this year. Mr. J. W. Moore, insects from the Cambridgeshire Fens — Leucania 

 straminea, four bred specimens, which he said were the first specimens of the species 

 whicli any one liad bred ; Leucania obsoleta, four specimens ; a short series of 

 Senta uliia; and one 3Ioma Orion (bred), all in grand condition. Mr. Colbran J. 

 Wainwright, a fine long series (male and female) of Anthrax paniscus, taken in 

 Cornwall in July and August last ; he said that for the first week or so they appeared 

 to be confined to one spot of sand in a warm protected corner near the beach at St. 

 Ives, whei'e they occurred either settling on the hot sand itself, or on the flower 

 heads of Dav.cus carota ; before he left, howev^er, on August 9th he had found them 

 much more generally scattered, especially occurring on the flower heads of Angelica 

 syloestris, but also on other flowers, and he had seen them as far west as the Land's 

 End, and nearly to Camborne in the east ; also, for comparison, continental speci- 

 mens oi Anthrax fenestrata, maura and morio, and Lomatia lateralis. Mr. G-. H. 

 Kenrick gave an account of an experiment he had tried with larvae of Arnphidasys 

 hetularia. He had about two dozen larvae from a pair of black parents, and when 

 about quarter of an inch long he separated them, putting one lot into a box with 

 entirely white lining, and putting nothing but green food in to them, and the other 

 into an ordinary dirty breeding cage, into which he put a liberal allowance of brown 

 twigs with the food. When full grown all in the white box were of the usual pale 

 green form, in the other box most were dark, one or two being very dark, in colour, 

 but two were pale ; at the beginning all colours were mixed in both boxes, so that 

 apparently the pale surroundings had made all the larvae pale, while the variable 

 surroundings had left the larva; in that lot variable. — Colbran J. Wainwkight, 

 Son. Hecreiary. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History Society: 

 Augmi lOM, 1899.— Mr. T. W. Hall, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Malcolm Burr exhibited a large number of species of the Orthopterous 

 family EumastacidcB, which he was monographing, and contributed notes on their 

 distribution, with detail drawings by E. H. T. Schuster, Esq., of Oxford ; he also 

 showed the specimens of Orthoptera which had been brought from Socotra by Mr. 

 Ogilvie Grant, as a portion of the result of the recent expedition. Mr. Sauzo, a 

 considerable number of insects of all Orders taken in Hampshire and Dorset during 

 his recent holiday there. 



August 2Uh, 1899.— Mr. E,obt. Adkin, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Kdwards exhibited a number of insects of various Orders from Borneo and 

 India, including the large bee, Xylocopa latipes, of which the male has paddle- 

 shaped fore legs, the enormous digging wasp, Triscolia procera, the giant ant, Cam- 

 potiotu.'! gigas, aud several remarkable species of Pomjo?7!'<i«, together with a large 

 immature Tarantula, specimens of the crab spiders, Gasteracantha, and the rare 

 genus allied to the scorpions, Thelyphonus. Mr. West, three species of Hemipiera, 

 Oncotylus viridijlamit found on Centaurea at Wisley, TrichopsyUa Walkeri found on 

 buckthorn at Box Hill, and Serenthia lata obtained by sweeping at Reigate. Mr. 

 Patteson reported that a specimen of Deile phila livornica had been taken at Limps- 

 field at light. Mr. Adkin showed a series of Acidalia aversata, bred from ova laid 

 by a female captured at Lewisham ; the whole brood were dull non-banded forms like 

 the female parent, and very distinct from the ordinary light form. — H. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



