244 THE entomologist's record. 



on a fungus, Tj-ichosporhim roseiim. The Rev. A. E. Eaton sent for 

 exhibition the male S[)ecimen of Elenchus tefiuicornis, Kirby, taken by 

 him on the 22nd August last, at Stoney Stoke, near Shepton Montague, 

 Somerset, and described by him in the Entomologisfs Alonthly 

 Magazine, October 1892, pp. 250-253. Mr. McLachlan stated that 

 another specimen of this species had been caught about the same date 

 in Claygate Lane,- near Surbiton, by Mr. Edward Saunders, who 

 discovered that it was parasitic on a homopterous insect of the genus 

 Lihurnia, and had also described it in the Eni. Mo. Mag., pp. 249- 

 250. Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited, for Mr. McRae, a large collection of 

 Colias edusa, C. edusa var. helice and C. hyale, all taken in the course 

 of five days' collecting in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth and 

 Christchurch, Hants. There were twenty-six specimens of helice, some 

 of which were remarkable both for size and colour. He stated that 

 Mr. McRae estimated the proportion of the variety helice to the type 

 of the female as one in fifty, Mr. Adye also exhibited two specimens 

 of Deiopeia pulchella, recently taken near Christchurch. The Chair- 

 man, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Jenner VVeir, and Mr. Merrifield commented 

 on the interesting nature of the exhibition, and on the recent extra- 

 ordinary al-undance of C. edusa and the var. helice, which was probably 

 not exceeded in 1877. Mr. Dallas Beeching exhibited four specimens 

 of Plusia monela, lately taken, in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge 

 Wells. Mr. Gervase F. Mathew sent for exhibition two specimens of 

 Plusia f/ioneta and their cocoons, which were found at Frinsted, Kent, 

 on the 3rd September last. It was stated that Mr. Mathew had found 

 seven cocoons on the under side of the leaves of monkshood, but that 

 the imagos had already emerged from five of them. Mr. Rye exhibited 

 a specimen of Zygcvna filipt'nduhe var. clirysanthemi, and two varieties 

 of Arctia villica, taken at Lancing, Sussex ; also dwarf specimens of 

 Euchloe carda'/iines fiom \VimbIedon ; a variety of Thecla 1 ubi from 

 Bournemouth, and varieties of Cocciiiella ocellata and C. oblongoguttata 

 from Oxshott. Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited specimens of Argynnis 

 pales var. isis and var. arsilache (the females of which showed a 

 tendency to melanism), recently taken at Campfer, in the Upper 

 Engadine ; also melanic forms of Erebia melampus, and a specimen 

 of Erebia nerine, taken at Bormio, at the foot of the Stelvio Pass. 

 Mr. Elwes exhibited specimens of typical Erebia melas, taken by him- 

 self at Campiglio, in the Western I'yrol, on the 25th July last, at an 

 elevation of 7,000 feet ; also specmiens of the same species from 

 Hungary, Greece, and the Eastern and Central Pyrenees. He stated 

 that the supposed absence of this species from the Alps, which had 

 seemed to be such a curious fact in geographical distribution, had 

 been first disproved by Mrs. NichoU, who discovered it at Campiglio 

 two years ago. He also exhibited fresh specimens of Erebia 7ierine, 

 taken on very hot rocks at Riva, on the lake of Garda, at an elevation 

 of about 500 feet ; also specimens of the same species, take.i at the 

 same time, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, in cool forest glades; 

 and remarked that the great difference of elevation and climate did 

 not appear to have produced any appreciable variation in this species. 

 Mr. Elwes also showed a pair of Dasydia lenebraria var. ivockearia, 

 Stgr., from Campiglio, which appeared to him to be sufficiently 

 constant and distinct from the typical form to be treated as a species. 



