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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



of the wasp Pulistes <iallica from Meiringen, with the living female. 

 Comparison of sizks of Lepidoptkra captured this year with 

 THOSE OF other YEARS.— Mr. Barrett and others remarked on the 

 comparative sizes of the captures of other seasons with the present. 

 Some members considered that imagines were smaller this year, while 

 others thought that they were quite up to the average size. 



Juhi 2it/i. — A RARE Erycinid. — Mr. Edwards exhibited a pair of the 

 Erycinid, Stalachtis etuiina, from the Lower Amazons. Insect pests. 

 — Mr. Adkin, JJorkhaiisenia /iscinlospn'teUa, bred from hare's hair. Mr. 

 West, a scries of the Coleopteron Anobimn iianiceiiui, found destroying 

 tobacco leaves by Mr. Adkin. Variation in 2 P. icarus at Dorking, — 

 Mr. Curwen, some 15 examples of Poh/omniatiin icanis from near Dork- 

 ing, showing much variation in the spotting and coalescence of the 

 spots on the under surface. Parasites of 0. antiqua. — Mr. Hugh Main, 

 parasites of the larva of Oifujia aiitujiia, and the larva of the large 

 water beetle Hydrous picens. Larva of H. euphorbiae. — Mr. Ashdown, 

 the larva of Hyles euphorbiae from Switzerland. Migration. — Mr. 

 Barrett read a note on the Migration of Butterflies, Aporia crataeyi and 

 Pieris brassicae, in Sicily. 



Aut/ufit lith. — S. URTic.E at Eastbourne. —Mr. Adkin, a series 

 of Spiloanwa urticne reared from larvae taken at Eastbourne in 

 the autumn of 1912. Variation in H. daedalus. — Mr. Edwards, 

 varied examples of the Aiv'ican Hanianumida dcwdal us, 'pomiing out 

 the extreme response of the underside markings to the environment, 

 and the pupa of Tiptila oleracea, the common "daddy-longlegs." 

 Comparison of Swiss and Sicilian butterflies, and pupa of N. typh^ 

 AND N. sPARGANii IN siTtJ. — Mf". Barrett, Sicilian and Swiss Satyrus 

 hcriiiioue, the former the larger, Uaywardia telicanus and Laiupides 

 hoeticas from Sicily, and the pupfe of Nonayria sparyanii and A', typhae 

 in sitii, head upwards in the former, downward in the latter. Gall 

 caused by icterana. — Mr. Dennis, a gall on Plantain caused by Tortrix 

 icterana. Field Reports. — -Mr. Curwen said that Cnlias edusa was 

 common at Mickleham on August 10th, and specimens of Nisoniaden 

 tayes were also obtained on the same date. 



Aiiyust 2Sth — Living ant-lion. — Mr. Main exhibited the living 

 imago of an ant-lion which he had bred from a larva obtained in 

 Switzerland in June last. It was a female, and while held would 

 feed on flies presented to it. Exhibit of Orthoptera and the 

 rare T. fasciata. — Mr. West, the Orthoptera, Thaiiinotrizon 

 chwreiis and Forficula anricularia var. forcipata, from Dartford, 

 and on behalf of Mr. Carr, the rare Coleopteron TricJiius fasciatua 

 from Mid-Wales. Aberration of A. exclamationis. — Mr. Adkin, 

 a specimen of Ayrotis exclamationis from Lewisham, in which the 

 reniform and orbicular stigmata were united. Autumn captures. 

 — Mr. Dunster, Colias edusa from Lyme Regis, /'. atalauta, P. cardui 

 and r. io from Crewkerne, with Kpione apiciaria, JSleaoleuca ocdlata, etc., 

 from the same locality. Local Swiss butterflies exhibited. ^ — Mr. 

 Curwen, series of Pidymuiuatus esdwri and Lycaeua sep/iyrus ynv.lycidas 

 from Switzerland. Ova of B. gemmaria curiously placed. — Mr. 

 Carr, ova of Jioartuia yeuiiiiaria deposited in a box among ova of one of 

 the " thorns." Interesting Coleoptera from the Tyrol, etc. — Mr. 

 Turner, specimens of the Coleopteron Cetonia an rata from Cortina, 

 Cassida equestris bred from larvte on a Salria near Konigs See, Bavaria, 



