238 [October, 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, July \Wi, 1905.— Mr. ITuon Main, B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Joy exhibited larvae of ThecJa ruin feeding on the berries of buckthorn. 

 He had also found them feeding on the huds of bramble and dogwood. They made 

 holes to extract the contents. Mr. Stonell, an Abraxas syloata (ulmata) taken 

 recently in the Clapham Road. Mr. Sich, the ova of Coleophora gryphipennella on 

 a rose leaf. It was an upright egg, and ahundantly supplied with gum. Mr. Main, 

 living larvae of Papilio machaon at different ages; and also an old stem of an 

 Umbellifer, containing cells of a species of "carpenter bee." Mr. Step distributed 

 copies of the phofograjjh of the members who attended the Field Meeting at Seal 

 Chart on May 27th. 



July 21th, 1905.— Tlie President in the Chair. 



Mr. Carr exhibited the larvae of Epione adiienaria from Seal. Mr. Stonell 

 a putty coloured larva of Odontopera hidentata from Yorkshire ; and reported that 

 he had taken a fair number of Cuenohia rufa at Worcester Park. Mr. Main, 

 a photograph of a woodcock's nest, taken in the New Forest; and also a photo- 

 graph of a colony of the larvaj of Eugonia polycliloros in the New Forest, from 

 which he had already bred more than sixty imagines. Mr. Noad Clark, photo- 

 graphs of (1) the ova Coleophora gryphipennella on leaves of rose, (2) a much- 

 magnified photograph of the micropyle of the same, and (3) the ova of .'Egeria 

 chrysMiformis. Mr. Sich said that tlie larva of C. gryphipennella was at first 

 a true miner, boring direct from the base of the ovum into the leaf. 



August 10th, 1905. The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Main exhibited the larvae of Hadena contigua, from ova laid by a New 

 Forest ? . The colour variation was extreme. Mr. Sich, living larvte of (1) Ni- 

 soniades tages, and (2) Syrichthus maJvce, both feeding well on garden strawberry. 

 They fed at night and retired in the day time into " tents " of leaves loosely spun 

 together. The former hibernated as a larva, the latter as a pupa. Mr. West 

 (Greenwich), two very local species of Hemiptera taken at Yarmouth in July ; 

 Gnathoconus picipes at roots of violets, and Chorosoma schillingi on Marram grass. 

 Mr. Turner, (1) a species of (Edipoda which was very common at Gavarnie in the 

 Hautes Pyrenees, and (2) a living specimen of Locusta vlridissima taken by him at 

 the sanie place. A discussion took place as to the habits of the latter species, and 

 it was considered to be carnivorous rather than vegetarian in its diet. Mr. R. Adkin 

 read a short note from Mr. Kirkaldy on " The Entomology of the Lowlands of 

 Oahu (Hawaiian Islands)." — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



