44 [February, 



This was the Annual Meeting of the Society, and the following gentlemen were 

 unanimously elected as the Council of the Society for the ensuing year: — President, 

 S. J. Capper, F.E.S. ; Vice- Presidents, H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., Doneaster, Wm. 

 Mansbridge, F.E.S. , K. E. Bankes, M.A., F.F.S.. Corfe Castle, Robert New- 

 stead, M.Sc., F.E.S., W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Kingston-on-Thames, C. E. Stott ; 

 Treasurer, J. Cotton, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. ; Secretaries, H. R. Sweeting, M.A., 

 Wm. Mansbridge ; Librarian, F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. ; Council, J. Collins, Oxford, 

 R. Wilding, O. Whitaker, Wm. Bell, M.R.C.S., J. P., E. a. Bayford, F.E.S., 

 Barnsley, P. F. Tinne, M.A., M.B., W. D. Harrison, W. A. Tyerman, E. J. B. Sopp, 

 F.R.Met.S., Wolverhampton, Wm. Webster, M.R.S.A.I., Geo. Arnold, F.E.S., 

 Wm. Mallinson. 



Mr. Oscar Whitaker read a paper entitled "A Preliminary Catalogue of the 

 Hemiptera-Homoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire," and additions to "A Pre- 

 liminary Catalogue of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Lancashire and Cheshire." 

 Mr. George Arnold, " Additions to the List of Hymenoptera of Lancashire and 

 Cheshire," and exhibited the various species enumerated. Mr. Oscar Whitaker 

 exhibited specimens of Stenocephalus agilis and Corixa affinis, recently added to 

 the local list of Heteroptera. Mr. F. N. Pierce, a short series of Abraxas grossti- 

 lariata, and remarked on the small range of variation shown by these specimens 

 during the season of 1908. Mr. C. B. Williams, a number of species of Lepidoptera 

 from Cambridge, including Himera peniiaria, one brownish and one irrorated with 

 fuscous, Asteroscopus sphinx, a series, Cidaria miata, Xylina ornithopus from 

 Denbighshire, North Wales, Polia clii, and a fine series of Cloantha soUdaginis, 

 closely agreeing with the West Riding form in darkness of coloration ; Mr. Williams 

 also announced that a specimen of Acherontia atropos had been captured in 

 Birkenhead on November 7th last. Mr. E. J. B. Sopp sent for exhibition a speci- 

 men of the cricket Ori/Uus bimacnlatus, which was found in the Liverpool Docks 

 in a fruit cargo from Spain. — Wm. Mansbridge and H. R. Sweeting, Ron. 

 Secretaries. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, December lOfh, 1908. — Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera from North Queensland, 

 including a fine series of Papilio vlysiex, specimens of P. sarpedon, Delias nigrina, 

 D. nysa, Cethosia cydippe, and several species of the brilliant genus Danis, 

 D. celestis, D. illustris, and J>. sehas. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Main, a bred series 

 of Ruralis betulce. Mr. Newman, series of richly coloured specimens of Satitrnia 

 pavonia (earpinij from Kent. Mr. Andrews, an Ichneumon, Baisus laetatorivs 9 , 

 which had been bred from a Syrphid, Sijrphus balteatus. Mi\ Rayward, ova of 

 Tiliacea citrago in situ on the scars of the leaf stalk of lime, which he had found 

 by searching. Mr. R. Adkin, a ? specimen of Agriades lellargus strongly marked 

 with blue coloration, wifh complete .absence of the usual orange lunuleson l.lie hind- 

 wings ; and a bi'ed series of Melanippe tristata from ova, showing scarcely any 



