22 'J'HE ENT(IM(>L()(iI8T S KECOKl). 



infertile. Mr. Feiin tlidUgUt that " in-and-in " breeding could be- 

 carried on Avitli niucli more success than Avas generally supposed, and 

 under careful treatment many species tended to l)ecome larger, e.g.. 

 Camptogramma fluviata and Ennomos aiigiilaria. Mr. Fletcher then 

 made some remarks on pairing Boarinia repandata. Three races from 

 the New Forest, Forres (small) and Sheffield (Idack) respectively, he 

 attempted to cross. The Idack paired inter se and A\-ith the Ncav Forest 

 specimens, and vice versa, but neither the l)lack nor the New Forest 

 specimens paired witli the Forres specimens. Mr. Adkin exhibited some 

 Scotch specimens of Tcen/ocampa gothica. A little wild usage of the 

 varietal nauie goth/cina led Mr. Tutt to say that this form is not really 

 a form with an olisolete gothic-mark as British lejiidopterists are apt to 

 consider it. Herrich-Scliiiffer, accustomed to the dark Linna^an type, 

 in descril)ing gothicina laid stress, first on the rusti/ ground colour, and 

 secondly, on the red gotliic-mark. Mr. Williams exhibited t^vo Colias 

 hyaJe bred ab ovo in Brit.iin. The $ parent Avas ca})turedat Northfleet^ 

 on the 19th September, 1892 ; the ova Avere laid on the 20th September, 

 the larva3 hatched on the 29th ; the first moult occiirred on Octol)er 9th, 

 the second on October 20th, the third on November 2nd. They pupated 

 on November 10th, and emergence took place on NoA-ember 2oth. 

 Mr. Barrett remarked that Hiibner's names and figures relating to 

 hjale Avere rather mixed. Mr. Tutt remarked that Mr. "Williams Avas 

 certainly to lie congratulated on having bred the species nb ovo, the 

 first time he believed it had been done in Britain. — Ed. 



BiHJiiXGHABi Entomological Society. — December 12th, 1892. — The 

 folloAving exhibits Avere made : By Mr. GAvllym, Acronycta alni, Ijred 

 from a larA'a found at KnoAvle, also Lithosia complana, taken at 

 BeAvdley. By Mr. C. J. WaiiiAvright, Lsopogon brevirostris and Neoita- 

 wus cyanurus from Barmouth, and Machimis africapiUns from Brendon. 

 Devonshire. By Mr. E. C. Bradley, Chrysoclysta biniaculeUa and 

 lineella, and Stigmonota nitldanu and regiana, all from Sutton. A paper 

 upon " Secondary Sexual Characters in Insects," Avas communicated by 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt', and read by the Secretary, Mr. C. J. WainA\right. 



COLBKAN J. AVaIXAVRIGHT, HoU. SeC. 



The Cajibkidge Entomological and Nati kaT; Histoky Society. — 

 Friday, November 11th. — The folloAving addition to Eule V. Avas 

 made, " That corresponding non-resident members be admitted into 

 the Society, paying an annual suliscription of 2s. 6d." Mr. Moss 

 exhibited a specimen of Vanessa atalanta liaA'ing a pale buff border* on 

 the underside of the posterior wing, of the same Avidth as the usual red 

 one on the upperside. Mr. Wells, a A'ariable series of Cerastis vaceinit 

 from West A^'ickham. Mr. Eickard, a specimen of Plnsia moneta, taken 

 at Cambridge in 1890 ; specimens of Acharti chameleon taken Ijy him- 

 self in South Africa, a series of Ephestia Mhuiella Ijred from a mill at 

 Cam1)ridge, and some insects Avhich he had found eating moths put 

 into a box to relax ; these Avere pronounced by Dr. Sharji to be larA-^e 

 of one of the Muscida'. Mr. Jones, three A^irieties of Nemeophilu 

 plantaginis, one nearly black ; they Avere all more or less crippled, and 



* This Avas most mai-ked in some of the specimens exhibited by Mr. 

 Merrifield at the Ent. Soc. of London's meeting in December last. Vide, ante 

 Vol. III. p. 31 ■.'.—Ed. 



