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from larvffi from Aberdeen. In the first generation a melanic male 

 and a bright red female produced 60% red, and with 40% melanic forms. 

 in the second generation red imagines produced 100% red progeny, 

 while melanic imagines produced 70% to 80% melanic with the 

 remainder red. In the third generation, broods from melanic and 

 non-melanic parents bred absolutely true. Aberrations of Angerona 

 pRUNARiA. — Mr. C. P. Pickett showed a bred series, including two 

 females bred from Monmouth, a female from Raindean, and a male 

 from Essex, with the usual chocolate bands, dull smoky-brown, the 

 yellow ground colour being also very dull. Scent-fans of Aporophyla 

 NIGRA. — Mr. G. H. Heath exhibited a male in which the white scent- 

 fans were extruded from their cavities in the sides of the abdomen. 

 Malformed Cidaria testata. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a specimen with 

 both hindwings absent. It was taken flying to light in the Norfolk 

 Broads. Nomiades semiargus (acis) and Cyclopides pal^mon reported 

 FROM MicKLEHAM. — Mr. W. Bcattie showed a <? and a J of the first, 

 and a single specimen of the second, species, captured by himself or by 

 his daughter during 1903 or 1904. Unfortunately the exhibitor could 

 give no more precise data'". Oporabia dilutata var. christyi. — Mr. E. A. 

 Cockayne showed a specimen bred from a larva beaten from elm at 

 Rannoch. Novemhey 21st, 1905. — Heredity experiments with Hemero- 

 PHiLA ABRUPTARiA. — Mr. E. Harris showed a long series of bred 

 specimens representing four generations. The original parents were a 

 typical male and a melanic female from north London. The first 

 generation yielded 50% melanic and 50% non-melanic forms. Two 

 dark specimens of this brood produced 70% melanic and 30% non- 

 melanic. From these again four pairings were obtained — A. Both 

 parents melanic gave wholly melanic progeny. B. Light parents gave 

 light progeny. C. Melanic male and light female gave 80% melanic. 

 D. Light male and dark female gave 68% dark and 32% light. 

 Asymmetrically marked Angerona prunaria. — Mr. C. P. Pickett 

 showed a male specimen of this species, bred in July, 1905, in which 

 the right wings were ab. sonliatn while the left were ab. pickcttaria. 

 Pharetra rumicis ab. salicis. — The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows showed 

 six specimens of this aberration bred by Newman from Barnsley. 

 Eupithecia subciliata at Torquay. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, exhibited a series 

 taken at Torquay on July 27th, 1905. Ova of Thecla pruni. — The 

 Rev. G. H. Raynor brought up a few ova which had been laid by females 

 bagged upon the foodplant (blackthorn). The eggs are laid upon the 

 stems and are very difficult to discern. Abraxas grossulariata 

 aberrations. — Mr. J. Riches exhibited interesting forms bred amongst 

 many others. The most noteworthy being an asymmetrical speci- 

 men, with a large black blotch upon the right forewing which was 

 not reproduced upon the left. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Xovi'tiiher 20i/j, 

 1905. — Photo- :micrographs of Coleoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera. — 

 Mr. 0. Whitaker exhibited, by means of the lantern, the antenntB of 

 Hi/ilrnphili(s piceiis. Acilim sulcatii s,a,nd Melolontha ndfiaris: maxillary 

 palpi of Ac'dins sulcatum, and Crenphilus maxillosus : antennae, tongue, 



* It is unfortunate that move precise data cannot be given of so important a 

 species in our fauna. The capture of C. jmlaemon at Mickleham is ahnost (or 

 quite) as remarkable. Surely some mistake has occurred ? — Ed. 



