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ist, and a most Av^arm-liearted and kind friend. Some of j'ou will 

 remember, soon after the foundation of our Society, the very pleasant 

 afternoon we spent at his house at Crosby, to which all the members 

 were invited. Mr. T. J. Moore, who died October 31st last, Avas born 

 in London, 1824. For many years past he had been the Curator of 

 our Free Public Museum. He was one of the 11 gentlemen Avho met 

 at my house, Huyton Park, February 24th, 1877, when the Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Entomological Society was formed and christened. Time 

 works change, and, with the exception of myself, he Avas the last of 

 the original members, four having since died, and the rest have removed 

 from Liverpool. I feel I must also express the deep regret all inter- 

 ested in Entomology feel in the great loss we have just sustained in 

 the death of Mr. H. T. Stainton, which has deprived the world of one 

 who has done almost more than any other man to forward the study of 

 this science, and whose name must ever be associated with it, as the 

 acknowledged authority on the Micro-Lepidoptera. 



The President's address was greeted with the heartiest applause and 

 approval. He then exhibited a melanic variety of Timandra amataria. 

 The specimen was unicolorous, composed of soft, olive-green scales. 

 Mr. Gregson, a collection of autographs of naturalists, artists and 

 authors, including nearly all the entomologists of the past 50 years. 

 Mr. AValker, a drawer of varieties of North American Vanessa antiopa, 

 probably the finest lot of varieties of this species extant. Mr. Collins, 

 Stauropus fagi from Beading. Mr. Mosley, a set of educational cases 

 relating to natural history subjects, to be used as prizes at schools. 

 Mr. Newstead, a specimen of Vanessa antiopa captured in Cheshire in 

 1877 by Mr. Leather of Vale Eoyal.— F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 17tJi January, 1893. — Exhibits : — Mr. Battley, bred sj)ecimens of 

 Argynnis paphia and pupa of same, found in the New Forest, attached 

 to the underside of a honeysuckle stem. He remarked that he had ob- 

 served more than a dozen larvae of this species, basking in the sun on 

 a piece of moss, which they closely resemble in colour. Mr. Simes 

 preserved larvte of Satyrus semele from Sussex. He stated that these 

 larvfB hid under leaves by day, and only become active in the evening, 

 when they ascended the grass on which they fed. Mr. Clark, Stariro- 

 pus fagi, from Epping and New Forest, also empty cocoons of 

 the same. Mr. Bayne, Stauropus fagi, from Epping Forest, including 

 the black variety ; also pupfe, cocoons, j^f^-i'^-sites and coloured draw- 

 ings of the larva3. Mr. Riches, a series of Cidnria dotata, bred from 

 larvpe found on red currant. He remarked that this species only passes 

 a short time in the pupje, several of his specimens having emerged be- 

 fore some of the others pupated. Captain Thompson, a sjiecimen of 

 Dasypolia templi, taken at rest, on a wall near Halifax, on 19th Novem- 

 ber. Mr. Prout stated that he had recently bred several Melantliia 

 ocellata. The larvae of this species spin light cocoons on the surface of 

 the earth, in which they remain as larv^ for some time, but on pupa- 

 ting, the emergence of the imago soon followed, aild did not seem to 

 have any connection with the temperature. Mr. Sykes, a sjjecimen of 

 Sirex gigas, taken at Enfield in July, 1887. 



Mr. Bayne then read his paper on Staurojms fagi. Messrs. Clark, 

 Prout, Lewcock, Sykes, Battley and Simes, took ^^art in the discussion 

 that followed, and a vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr. 

 Bayne for his paper. 



