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Motilities. 



BiuMiNGHAM Entomological Society : October \lth, 1904.— Mr. G. T 

 Bethttnb-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Fountain showed Callimorpha domlnula, L., from Devon, and gave 

 an account of his difficulties in breeding them. Though treated in various ways lie 

 failed to find any way by which to avoid getting the greater portion cripples. He 

 also showed Lasiocampa quercus, L., bred from larvae taken in Sutton Park in 

 March and April. They included light males and also dark ones, which were 

 apparently var. calhinx, Palm. ; also there were two of the dark ones with very 

 diaphanous wings, though evidently perfect and with complete cilia to the wings, 

 yet they looked as if rubbed, owing appai-ently to deficient sealing on the outer 

 third of each wing. Mr. H. W. Ellis, a collection of Rht/nckophora, &c., and gave a 

 general account of them, and referred to tlie local records. Mr. R. C. Bradley, 

 Thriptocera bicolor, Mg., three specimens bred from Lasioeampa quercus larvae, 

 from Sutton Park, by Mr. W. H. Williamson in 1904. 



November 2.\st, 1904.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. A. H. Martineau exhibited from Mr. H. Stone, F.L.^., a collective cocoon 

 made by some Lepidopterous larvae. Information was lacking as to the species and 

 its place of origin. It consisted of one large cocoon about 6'' x 4", with a thick, 

 hard brown integument containing a considerable number of ordinary brown 

 cocoons massed inside. The pupae were empty, but there was no obvious means of 

 exit, and the interior was closely packed with the material o< the cocoons so that it 

 was not easy to judge how the moths had emerged. Mr. B. S. Searle showed 

 Lepidoptera from various localities and a box of foreign Coleoptera. The Kev. 

 C. F. Thornewill read a paper upon "The Genus Eupithecia, especially in relation 

 to Breeding them from the Larvae." He had given special attention to the genus 

 and had reared a large proportion of the species at various times, and he gave a 

 good deal of interesting information about the life-histories and habits of many of 

 the species.— CoLBBAN J. Wainwbight, Hon. Secretary. 



Lancashiee and Cheshire Entomologicai Society. — By the kindness of 

 the Chester Society of Natural Science, an ordinary meeting was held in the 

 Grosvenor Museum, Chester, on Monday, November 21st, 1904. Mr. Eichaed 

 "Wilding, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Society : Messrs. C. M. 

 Adams, F.C.S. (Southport), Rd. S. Bagnall, F.E.S. (Winlaton-on-Tyne), J. H. 

 Leyland (Ormskirk), W. C. Boyd (Cheshunt), John F. Dixon-Nuttall (Prescot), 

 Rd. Hancock (Handsworth), and E. E. Lowe (Plymouth). 



Mr. Robert Newstead, A.L.S., F.E.S., Hon. F.R.H.S., gave a most interesting 

 lecture on "The Collections in the Grosvenor Museum," copiously illustrated with 

 lantern slides ; and, through the kindness of Mr. Newstead, the whole of the 

 Museum was open to the inspection of Members, and the more interesting exhibits 

 were explained by him. Amongst interesting exhibits examined during the evening 

 were a living specimen of the male of Lecayiium hesperidum shown by Mr. Newstead. 

 This he had recently bred from a colony of Coccids which had been under observa- 



