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Maearia liturata, including a fair number of the var. nigrofulvata, and a collection 

 of Crambidsp, embracing most of the local Lancashire and Cheshire species. Mr. 

 F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. (Liverpool) brought a specimen of Sphinx convolvuli, captured 

 by Mr. G. Caunt at Wallasey in August last; and Mr. A. Tippins (Liverpool) 

 exhibited Abraxas grossulariata, including one magnificent specimen with bright 

 yellow ground colour, bred from a Dingle larva. Mr. H. B. Prince's (Birkenhead) 

 extensive exhibit included a fine series of Nemeophila plantaginis, var. hospita, from 

 the Lake District ; and Mr. A. G. Wallington (Warrington) showed Mamestra 

 ahjecta from Warrington, a species of great rarity in the district. A collection of 

 some 400 species of Coleoptera from the immediate neighbourhood of Southport 

 was shown by Dr. G. W. Chaster, M.R.C.S. (Southport), and Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, 

 F.R. Met. S., F.E.S. (Birkdale), which included, amongst its many rarities, Thinobius 

 brevipennis ; the very rare Anisotoma picea, A. rvgosa, and A. furva ; Heterocerus 

 fuscnlus, hitherto recorded from the Isle of Wight only; Heptaulacus villosus ; 

 Ammcecius brevis, an insect entirely confined to the Southport district ; Mgialia 

 rufa; the very rare Anthicus bimaculatus, and Gymnetron coltinus, &c. Mr. Fred. 

 Birch (Wavertree) exhibited living specimens of Chrysomela cerealis in all its stages, 

 and gave some interesting details of its life-history. Mr. H. B. Prince, a living 

 specimen of PhyUodromia germanica from Birkenhead, which is considerably darker 

 than the type, Mr. Sopp remarking that he had also lately received for identification 

 the same species from the Borough Hospital there. Mr. Oulton Harrison 

 (Wavertree) showed the Coccus (? sp.), commercially known as the " Rosy Black ;" 

 and Mr. W. H. Jennings (Hoylake), samples of liquorice root and coriander seed, 

 exhibiting the enormous damage wrought by Anobium paniceum. — E. J. B. Sopp 

 and F. Biech, Hon. Sees. 



The South London Entomological and Natueal History Society, 

 September 2Uh, 1903.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited (1) a short series of Aplecta nehulosa, bred from Delamere 

 Forest larvae ; all were darker than the typical form, but only two were var. 

 Sobsoni; (2) bred series of Cabera pusaria from Oxshott, Wisley, and Epping 

 larvEB ; many of the bred imagines resembled var. rotundaria in marking, but not in 

 the shape of their wings. Mr. Goulton, bred series of Orgyia antiqua and 

 Emmelesia unifasciata. Mr. P. B. Carr, (1) a bred series of Malacosoma neustria 

 from New Forest ova : all were brown in colour, half the <? s pale and half the same 

 shade as the $ s ; (2) a larva of Cleora glabraria, taken in the New Forest at 

 Easter, and still feeding. Mr. Boxer, a collection of butterflies and moths from 

 Durban. Mr. West (Greenwich), short series of three species of Hemiptera, taken 

 from broom at Oxshott in September ; Livilla ulicis, Dictyonota strichnocera, and 

 the rare D. fuUginosa. Mr. Lucas read the Report of the Horsley Field Meeting, 

 held on June 6th, and illustrated his remarks with lantern slides. 



October 8th. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. F. A. Oldaker exhibited a series of Apatura Iris bred, from New Forest 

 larvfs ; a series of Eutricha quercifolia bred, from Leatherhead ; a series of Plusia 

 moneta bred, from Tilgate Forest ; specimens of Lophopteryx carmelita and Agrotis 

 cinerea from lamps at Dorking, and a specimen of Sesia myopieformis from Dorking. 



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