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Fehruarij 7th, 1893. — Exhibits : — Mr. Mera, a fine series of Hyhernia 

 defoUaria, pale oclireous, with a very clear dark band. These were all 

 from one batch of eggs, and showed the effects of heredity, as almost 

 every specimen was distinctly banded and followed the parent form, 

 none of the usual unicolorous specimens were bred with them. Mr. 

 Huckett bred specimens of Hyhernia defoUaria. He remarked that 

 these had emerged almost continuously from October, until the present 

 time. Mr. Bellamy, Ennomos tiUaria, E. fuscantaria, Selenia hmaria, and 

 some suffused specimens of Himera pennaria, all from Wood Green. 

 Mr. Prout, several Geometne, with the transverse lines approximating, 

 the enclosed band in some cases resolving itself into a line. These in- 

 cluded specimens of Ennomos angularia, Himera pennaria, Eupithecia 

 abhreviata, Thera variata, Melanthia occllata and Melanippe montanata. 

 Mr. Boden, Coccyx strohilana, C. splendihdana, C. argyrana, C. ahiegana, 

 C. nanana and C. vacciniana, all from West Wickham. Mr. Gates, Hy- 

 percallia christiernella, from Sevenoaks. Exhibits of the genus Xanthia 

 were made by Messrs. Bacot, Battley, Boden, Clark, Gates, Hodges, 

 Eiches, Eoutledge, Sequeira, Southey and Tutt. 



Mr. Tutt then read his paper on " The Genus Xanthia,'' after which 

 there was an interesting discussion. — A. U. Battley and J. A. Simes, 

 Hon. Sees. 



Entomological Society of London. — February 8th, 1893. — Mr. S. 

 Stevens exhilnted a specimen of Chcerocampa celerio, in very fine 

 condition, captured at light, in Hastings, on the 26th September last, 

 by Mr. Johnson. Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens of Gibbium 

 scotias and Pentarthrum huttoni, taken by Mr. Rye in a cellar in Shoe 

 Lane. He stated that the Gibbium scotias lived in a mixture of beer 

 and sawdust in the cellar, and that when this was cleared out the 

 beetles disappeared. The Pentarthrum hidtoni lived in wood in the 

 cellar. Mr. McLachlan exhibited a large Noctuid moth, which had 

 been placed in his hands by Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., of the Meteorological 

 Office. It was stated to have been taken at sea in the South Atlantic, 

 in about lat. 28° S., long. 26° W. Colonel Swinhoe and the President 

 made some remarks on the species, and on the migi-ation of many 

 species of Lepidoptera. Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited larvae and 

 pupge of Rhynchophoriis palmarum, L., the Gru-gru Worm of the West 

 Indian Islands, which is eaten as a delicacy by the negroes and by the 

 French Creoles of Martinique. He stated that the existence of post 

 thoracic stigmata in the larva of a species of Bhynchophorus had been 

 mentioned by Candeze, but denied by Leconte and Horn. They were 

 certainly present in the larva of R. palmarum, but were very minute. 

 He also exhibited a piece of a drawing board, showing extensive injury 

 by Longicorn larva? during a period extending over seven years. Mr. 

 G. T Porritt exhibited two varieties of Arctia hibricepeda from York ; 

 an olive-banded specimen of Bombyx quercus from Huddersfield ; and a 

 small melanic specimen of Melanippe hastata from Wharncliffe Wood, 

 Yorkshire. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a few species of Lepidoptera, 

 Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Neuroptera, sent to him by Major G. H. 

 Leatham, of the 31st Regiment, who had collected them last June and 

 July, whilst on a shooting expedition in Kashmi territory, Bengal. 

 Some of the specimens were taken by Major Leatham at an elevation 

 of from 10,000 to 11,000 feet, but the majority were stated to have been 

 collected in the Krishnye Valley, which drains the glaciers on the 

 western slopes of the Nun Kun range. Mr. Elwes remarked that some 



