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disease. Mr. Gilbert Smith gave an account, of the Coleopterous genera Crio- 

 cephalux and Asemiim, illustrating his pajjer with some excellent drawings and 

 specimens of the beetles in all stages. 



May \Uh, 1905.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. A. H. Martineau exhibited a specimen of the rare saw-fly, Sehizocera 

 furcata, ? , taken by Mr. C. J. Wainwright in Wyre Forest on May 26th, 1890 ; it 

 had been named for him by the Rev. F. D. Morice, who told him that only two 

 specimens had previously been known fi'om the British Isles ; he also showed a 

 specimen of Tenthredo Uinda, S , vrhich had only one antenna with the normal 

 white tip to it, the other being quite black ; likewise various other Hi/menoptera, 

 chiefly Kxotic AcuJeata. Mr. J. T. Fountain, a series of Biston hirtaria, CI., bred 

 from ova i-eceived from Yorkshire ; he said that the females were decidedly later 

 than the males in emerging, about ten days on the average ; he also showed a 

 beautiful series of Diantliaecia alhimacula, Bkh., from a locality he was not at 

 liberty to mention. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a collection of butterflies of the 

 Australian Lycsenid genus Offi/rix, which he had just described in a paper commu- 

 nicated to the Entomological Society of London ; he gave a very interesting account 

 of their peculiar habits and life-histories as far as known, chiefly dealing with their 

 I'emarkable association with ants. — Colbean J. Wainwright, Ron. Secretary. 



Lancashire and Cheshire ENTOMOLoaiCAL Society : March 20th. — 

 Mr. Richard Wilding, Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Third Ordinary Meeting was held in the Society's Rooms, Royal Listitu- 

 tion, Liverpool. 



Donations to the Library were announced from Messrs. B. H. Crabtree, F.E.S. 

 H. B. Score, F.R.Q.S., Jas. Fletcher, LL.D., F.L.S., and C. M. Adams, F.T.C. 



This meeting took the form of a Microscopical, Lantern, and Greneral Exhibi- 

 tional meeting, and proved to be a most popular and successful innovation. Mr. 

 J. M. Williams' slides included the suckers of Dytiscus and the head of the 

 Jumping Spider, Salticus tardigradus. Mr. Garnett showed the Fairy Fly, 

 Anagrus inearnatus and the Hessian Fly. Mr. F. N. Pierce, the Chirping Drum 

 and File of the common House Cricket. Mr. D. Whittaker, the strigil of Corixa 

 geoffroyi and other slides of aquatic Hemiptera. Mr. J. E. Turner, head of plumed 

 gnat, and Ichneumon flies. Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, larva of Meloe proscarabxu.t and 

 spiracles of Dytiscus marginalis. The President, Mr. S. J. Capper, sent his well- 

 known educational collections representing all the orders of Insects. Mr. W. A. 

 Tyerman, a series of bred Selenia illunaria, and some beautiful moths from 

 Winburg, Orange River Colony. Mr. F. R. Dixon-Nuttall, specimens of the North 

 American Longicorn, Neoclytus erythrocephalus, found seven inches below the bark 

 of an ash supposed to have grown in the St. Helen's District. Dr. W. Bell, pre- 

 served larva of Noctua triangulum. Mr. Horton, larvae of Trochilium hembecifortne, 

 in willow stems. Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, a case of exotic Cetoniidie, and one of 

 Goliath beetles, including Goliathus druryi, G. giganteus and G. cacicus. Mr. 



