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blossoms, and later, on lettuce leaves, which they seemed to prefer. 

 They pupated below the surface of the ground in a strong cocoon. A 

 Male " Stick-insect." — Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited a J and two ? s 

 of a " stick-insect " (? Lonchodes sp.), which is usually partbenogenetic. 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse said he had bred three generations of this 

 Phasmid, and had had many hundreds of specimens, and he congratu- 

 lated Mr. Blair on having the only ^ he had ever seen or heard of. 

 Delias from New Guinea Mountains. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited 46 

 forms of Ik'lias from the mountain ranges of New Guinea. In suitable 

 localities of the Owen Stanley Range no less than 24 of these have 

 been obtained, of which 18 are confined to the higher altitudes. 

 Brazilian Sphingids. — The Rev. A. Miles Moss exhibited the following 

 Sphingids from Para — Ampliimoea ivalkeri, horpjothiis excehior, 

 Grcwuiiodia coiais, with pupa spun up in a leaf, Heuierojdanes I'ninis, 

 Ephtor f/orfion, $ and 9 , Pholus phorbas, Xylnphanes nechiis, with 

 chrysalis, and A", coswius, 2 , the first known specimen of this sex. 

 New Entomological Post. — The President mentioned that the 

 University of Cambridge had decided to appoint a Demonstrator in 

 Medical Entomology. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The opening 

 meeting of the session was held at the Royal Institution, Colquit 

 Street, Liverpool, on Monday, October 16th, 1911, Dr. P. F.Turner, 

 vice-president in the chair. This being the exhibitional meeting of 

 the Society, the exhibits were the feature of the evening. Mr. B. H. 

 Crabtree brought a fine bred series of Boamiia repandata from Cornwall 

 and Delamere, a very fine and varied series of Kmintnoa autnmnaria 

 bred from Southend ova, Ar/Totis ashivorthii and A. htcernea from Pen- 

 maenmawr, Hadena dissiniilis (suasa) from S. Manchester larvae, 

 Aplc'cta nehidom and var. robsoni from Delamere larvfe, Arfij/nuis selene 

 %udiCoenony)iiplia typhon from Haverthwaite mosses and Erebia epiphron, 

 Nenieiiphila planta</inis and var. Jiospita from the Westmoreland 

 mountains. Mr. R. Tait, junr., shewed a long series of Abraxas 

 grosstdariata from a garden in Huddersfield shewing an exceptional 

 range of variation, B. repandata including var. conversaria, Penmaen- 

 mawr var. etc., Drepana falcataria, Diacrisia sannio (^rKSinda), Acidalia 

 strifiilaria, Minoa miirinata, Geometra papilionaria, lAtlnma nieftoDiella, 

 Aplecta tincta from Wyre Forest, June, 1911, bred typical form of 

 Awjihidasis betidaria from Pendine, S. Wales, 1911, A. advena and 

 B. rnhoraria from Monkswood, June, 1911. Dr. P. F. Tinne's exhibit 

 consisted of a nice series of variations of Buuiicia pldaeas collected on 

 the coast of Donegal during August, 1911. These included ab. 

 aryentea and specimens shewing extreme forms with light and heavy 

 black markings. Mr. W. Mansbridge had a long series of Selenia 

 bilunaria shewing dense fuscous irroration, from a Delamere $ , also 

 a new form ab. brnnnearia from the same locality ; a long series of 

 Aplecta nebulosa and vars. from robsoni parents. The results were 

 contrary to usual experience with this parentage, the progeny being as 

 follows : — 49 per cent, robsoni, 6 per cent, thoiupsoni, and 45 per cent, 

 grey forms with typical markings, the last being remarkable as shewing 

 a full range of variation inter se, from the palest Delamere variety to 

 the darkest, nearly all, however, possessing the typical markings. He 

 also showed a series of Abraxas (jrossnlariata from Huddersfield, which 

 included the usual well-known West Riding variations. Mr. A. W. 



