800 THE entomologist's record. 



Eriogaster lanestris and Saturnia carpini^' and exhibited a large number 

 of speamens in illustration of the paper. Lord Walsingham congratulated 

 Mr. Bateson on his paper, and on the intelligent care and method 

 shown in his experiments, and said that he was glad to see that at 

 Cambridge there was an entomologist ready to enter this interesting field 

 of investigation, and perhaps at some future day to contest the palm 

 with Mr. Poulton as representing the sister University at Oxford. He 

 had noticed that the larvae of S, carpmi, if left in a box with dead food, 

 and probably starved, made a light-coloured cocoon ; but that when the 

 cocoon was made under natural conditions, on living foodplants on the 

 moors, it was of a dark colour. Mr. Poulton, Prof. Meldola, Mr. 

 Bateson, and others continued the discussion — H. Goss and W. W. 

 Fowler, Ho?i. Sees. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — Thursday, November i()i/i, 1891. — Exhibits : — Dr. Buckell, portions of 

 an ash tree, from which he had obtained 27 specimens of Zeuzera 

 pyrina {asculi) in 1890. The recent gale had snapi^ed the trunk about 

 7 feet from the ground. The portions shown abundantly illustrated 

 the ravages made by the larvae, and the consequent weakening of the 

 tree. Mr. Tutt, varieties oi Noctua f estiva from Warrington and Cleve- 

 don ; Agrotis valligera from Sligo, and Agrotis corticea from St. Anne's- 

 on-Sea ; Coremia ferriigata and C. unideniaria from Weymouth, illus- 

 trating the difference in width of the central band ; a dark specimen of 

 Larentia didyviata from Liverpool ; Scapula decrepitalis from Glasgow, 

 and the empty pupa skin of Apaiura iris, all belonging to members of 

 the Record Exchange Club. Mr. Bellamy, a series of Himera pcnnaria, 

 taken on lamps at Muswell Hill, one having the transverse lines very 

 daik with distinct shades. Mr. Bayne, Hydroecia micacea from Totten- 

 ham, one of the specimens being var. rosea. Mr. Simes, Acosmeiia 

 ^aliginosa from the New Forest ; Hepialus velleda, from Aberdeen ; 

 Sesia apiformis from Suffolk, and Anticlea sinuaia from Box Hill. 

 Mr. Prout, a series of Hydnvcia nictitatts and H. paludis from the Isle 

 of Wight, the latter coming from the marshes, and the former from the 

 higher land. Mr. Southey, a series of Gortyna flavago from Highgate 

 Woods. Mr. Battley, Gortyna flavago from Clapton, together with the 

 preserved larva, pupa, and cocoon. Mr. Clark, a fine confluent spotted 



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