804 THE entomologist's record. 



entirely black, the original $ parent having been a dark specimen from 

 the New Forest. Mr. Dobson said that dark specimens which he had 

 obtained from the New Forest differed from those exhibited by Mr. 

 South, inasmuch as the latter tended to buff, thus darkening the ground 

 colour, whilst the darkening in the New Forest appeared to be due to 

 an actual increase in the quantity of the black markings. Mr. Tutt 

 remarked that certain years appeared to produce darker specimens than 

 usual in the New Forest, and that a banded form was not uncommon. 

 Mr. Adkin exhibited Sesia scolicefor?iiis from Rannoch, where the larvae 

 are not rare in the thickest part of the trees ; he stated that a fair 

 number of larvae were taken, although many were injured in getting 

 them out of the trees, but many were immature and others much 

 attacked by ichneumons ; it was also undoubted that the larvse took 

 two or three years to come to maturity. Mr. Tugwell remarked that 

 the Welsh S. scoHcBformis were larger than that exhibited by Mr. Adkin, 

 and Mr. Carrington remarked that the late Mr. Cooke used to take 

 them by getting up at daybreak and watching them emerge, he also stated 

 that they fly as soon as the wings are expanded. He saw one captured 

 at Llangollen. Mr. Tugwell suggested " assembling " with a virgin ? 

 to try to get the (^'s in quantity. Mr. Adkin also exhibited a ? speci- 

 men oi Euchloe cardamines captured on Hay ward's Heath, the specimen 

 having a >-shaped mark under the discoidal spot. Messrs. Barrett, 

 Fenn and Tugwell made some remarks relating to the >-shaped mark 

 in the species of Oporabia. It was remarked that the >"-mark in the 

 specimen of carda7nines exhibited was not on the nervures. Mr. Short ex- 

 hibited Cuspidia psi, type and vas . suffusa^ Melatiippe fluduata, also some 

 suffused s|)ecimens of Spilosoma liibricipeda all from London. Mr. 

 Billups stated that the ichneumon from A/tacas cecropia {ante, p., 189) was 

 Crypt us extremntis which was figured (29) in The Annual Report of the 

 Fruit Growers' Associatiofi, Ontario, 1890, p. 66, reviewed in the Ent. 

 Record, ii., p. 48, where the species is said to be bred frequently from 

 the cocoons of Telea polyphennis. Mr. Hawes exhib ted a living imago 

 (just emerged), also a living pupa of Polyommatus phlieas, the emergence 

 having taken place about three months from the time the egg was laid ; 

 he also referred to the fact that he had obtained ova from Pieris napi 

 and Pararge 7?ieg(zra by lamp-light. On one occasion, a ? of the 

 former laid twelve eggs in a few minutes. Mr. Edwards exhibited some 

 exotic Papilios and a very rare HymenoDteron — Abia fasciata — from 

 Oxted. Mr. Adkin stated that he was at Eastbourne from August loth 

 till the 23rd, the weather being both wet and cold. The three species 

 of Pieris were abundant, 7iapi especially so ; Argynnis aglaia was also 

 common, one specimen had the left anterior wing very small ; Satyrus 

 semele, Epinephele ianira and other common species were more than 

 usually abundant ; Lyccena corydon was very common, and this species 

 appeared to get low down into the roots for shelter in rough weather; 

 a few specimens had the spots on the undersides more or less coalesced; 

 Lyccena icarus and var. icarinus, no very blue females being observed 

 except in one limited locality on the Parade. The Vanessidas were rare 

 except urticce ; Macroglossa stellatarutn occurred, whilst the usual form 

 of Zygcena filipetidulca had the central pair of spots united ; one speci- 

 men was found with the pupa sheath adherent, looking like a third 

 antenna. Sugared flower-heads were fairly attractive ; Abraxas grossu 



