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Sussex. Indian Leaf-Moth. — Mr. Moore, the very beautiful Leaf- 

 moth of India, Gloriana {Phi/llode) omata. Stem-burrowing Lakv^ 

 AND Forcing of Larv.e. — ^Mr. Newman (1) sticks, both living and dead, 

 of sallow containing larvae of Trochiliiun hemheci forme, and also 

 some containing the similarly feeding larvae of the Musk-beetle, 

 Aromia moschata; (2) a living specimen of ^Egeria culiciformis, bred after 

 sixteen days forcing ; and (3) full-fed larvae of Arctia caia and 

 Calliiiiorpha doiinnida, which had been forced on, and stated that some 

 of the former had made no response to the treatment. 



City of London Entomological Society. — February Ith. — -Mr. 

 Chas. H. Williams was elected to membership. — Exhibits. — Mr. S. J. 

 Bell, a series of Antidea rnhidata, all of bright red form, bred from Isle 

 of Wight ova. Mr. G. Brooks, a very dark brown Smerinthiis pnpidi, 

 Barnet, 1910. Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a series of Bombijx castrfiusis from the 

 Essex coast, including several unicolorous specimens. Mr. V. E. Shaw, 

 Noctua augur var. omega, Finchley, June 2Sth, 1910, mentioned in 

 Tutt's British Noctuae as a very rare form. — Communication. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman stated that osier stumps collected for Trochilium bembeciforme 

 (crabroniformis), were found to contain both full-fed and young larvae. 

 The stumps were kept on the concrete floor of a hot-house during the 

 winter, and the young larvae migrated from the small to the large 

 stems, fed up, and pupated. Mr. Newman also drew attention to the 

 fact that while larvae of ^E. culiciformis pupate head upwards, when 

 feeding in the stems of birch, they pupate head downwards above the 

 emergence cap when in year-old stems. March 1th. — The Genus 

 CosMiA. — The Cosiiriae were the subject of the special exhibit and 

 discussion for the evening, and series were shown by Messrs. Edelsten, 

 Mera, and P. H. Tautz ; the latter member was the opener of the 

 discussion, and exhibited particularly fine series, mostly collected in 

 the neighbourhood of Pinner. Mr. B. S. Williams showed an interest- 

 ing example of 6', trapezina var. nigra (Tutt) taken at East Finchley, 

 July, 1910. Mr. J. Riches exhibited a number of Gonepteryx Uhatrix 

 in very fair condition found in a coal cellar in Norfolk, February, 1911. 

 March 21st. — The Drepanulids. — The " Hook-tips " were the subject 

 of a special exhibit and discussion. The opener, Mr. A. J. Willsdon, 

 showed fine series of Drepana lacerti)iaria, D. falcataria, D. binaria, 

 D. cnltraria, nearly all taken in the vicinity of London; other members 

 also exhibited their series of this group. Birds extracting Sesiid 

 larvjE. — -Mr. L. W. Newman showed two stems of young birch, which 

 had originally contained larvae of T. bembeciforme. The stems had 

 been attacked by some bird (? nut-hatch), which had pecked a hole 

 about three-quarters of an inch deep to get at the larval burrow; in 

 the one case two and in the other case three, such holes had been made 

 before the larva was located. The exhibitor stated that a large number 

 of steins were found to have been thus rifled, although no signs of such 

 attacks were seen on the occasion of a visit to the same spot a week 

 earlier. Zonaria hybrid. — Mr. Newman also exhibited a freshly-killed 

 specimen of hybrid Nyssia zonaria-hispidaria. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — February 

 20t/(, 1911.— Mr. Geo. Arnold, M.Sc, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — The Vice-President delivered a lecture on "Ants," in which 

 he dealt chiefly with the recent discoveries connected with the habits 

 of the subterranean fungus-eating species and the curious procedure 



