192 [August, 1900. 



LANCAsniRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SociETr. — On a recent Saturday 

 the President (Mr. S. J. Capper, F.E.S.) gave a garden party at his residence, 

 Huyton Park, to the Members of this Society and other Entomological friends. 

 Amongst those present were Mr. P. N. Pierce, F.E.S. (Hon. Secretary), Dr. Ellis, 

 F.E.S., and Messrs. C. H.Walker, Henry and A. Capper, F. P. Marratt, R. Wilding, 

 J. Roxburgh, O. Harrison, H. Tonkin, C. Dalmer, W. A. Tyerman, and Rev. A. 

 W. Carter, &c. (Liverpool) ; B. H. Crabtree, F.E.S. (Vice-President), Dr. Bailey, 

 R. Tait, Jun. (Manchester) ; R. Newstead, F.E.S., and J. Arkle (Chester) ; Dr. 

 Gaskell and Dr. Cassall (Doncaster) ; J. Murray (Carnforth) ; Dr. Cotton, W. 

 Webster, and F. C. Thompson (St. Helens) ; the Rev. R. Freeman (Prescot) ; 

 W. Kentish (Birmingham) ; W. H. Holt, H. Locke, W. Halls, and H. B. Prince 

 (Birkenhead) ; T. G. Mason (Lytham) ; and the Revs. G. E. Cheesman and W. 

 M. Jones (Huyton). 



Mr. Capper has been President of the Society since its foundation twenty-three 

 years ago, and wished to give the Members an opportunity of inspecting his col- 

 lection of British Lepidoptera, and his educational collection of all Orders of insects. 

 The collection of British Lepidoptera occupies considerably more than 100 large 

 drawers, and was displayed on tables. The collection, which is acknowledged to be 

 almost unique as to the varieties and aberrations it contains, has been formed during 

 the past sixty years, and was added to considerably by the addition of the late 

 Alfred Owen's collection. Miss Capper, as hostess, assisted her father in enter- 

 taining the guests. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 May 10th, 1900.— Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited a series of Cabera exanthemaria, showing variation in 

 the relative positions of the transverse lines. 



May 24th, 1900.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Clarke exhibited a sawfly cocoon of a most delicate fibrous structure. Mr. 

 Enock then gave a series of interesting notes, illustrated with admirable lantern 

 slides, on various incidents in insect life, including: (1) a long series of slides 

 showing all stages in the closing of the wings in the earwig; (2) a scries showing 

 the gradual unfolding and growth of the wings in Fapilio Machaon ; and (3) all 

 stages in the emergence and hardening process of ^schna cyanea. 



June 14^A, 1900. — The President in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited bred specimens of Orgyia antiqua from S. of France, 

 and noted that the black markings were much intensified. Mr. Turner, specimens 

 of the Coccid, Pulvinaria ribesice, the White Woolly Scale, from his own garden, 

 and read notes on its occurrence. Mr. Enock, a living female of Ranatra linearis, 

 with its ova, which are deposited in leaves and stems of water plants, and are 

 attached to a curious Y-shaped body ; also living nymphs of Erythromma najas and 

 Ischnvra elegans. Mr. Clarke, microphotographs of the ova of several species of 

 Lepidoptera, including Cyaniris aryioJus and Hadena genista. Mr. Lucas read 

 the Report of the Field Meeting to Oxshott, and illustrated his remarks by a large 

 number of lantern slides of well known spots in the district. — -Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Sec. 



