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Ento^iological Society of London. — April 12th. — Sir John Talbot 

 Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., exhibited a numl^er of specimens of Lepi- 

 doptera and Hymenoptera, all caught in Glamorganshire. The Lepi- 

 doptera included some remarkable varieties of Vanessa to, from which 

 the usual eye-like spots in the hind wings were absent ; varieties of 

 Arctia menthastri ; a long series of melanic and other forms of Boarmia 

 repandata and Tephrosia crepusciilaria ; and bleached forms of Geometra 

 jmpilionaria. The Coleoptera included specimens of Prionus coriarius, 

 Pyrochroa coccinea, Otiorlvjnchns sulcatus, and Asfi/nomiis (Bdilis, a large 

 species of Longicornia, which Sir John Llewelyn stated had been handed 

 to him by colliers, who obtained them from the wooden props used in 

 the coal mines, made out of timber imported from the Baltic. Mr. 

 Merrifield, Dr. Sharp, and Mr. Stevens, made some remarks on the 

 specimens. Sir John T. D. Llewelyn enquired whether the name of 

 the moth which had a suflficiently long proboscis to fertilize the large 

 Madagascar species of Orchis. AngrcEcwn sesqidpedale, was kno"s\ai. Mr. 

 C. 0. Water house stated, that the collections received at the British 

 Museum, from Madagascar, had been examined with the view to the 

 discovery of the species, but up to the jjresent, it had not been identified. 

 Mr. H. Gross exhibited, for Mr. Frank W. P. Dennis, of Bahia, Brazil, 

 several nests of Traj^-door Spiders, containing living specimens of the 

 spider, and read a communication from Mr. Dennis on the subject. 

 vSeveral j^hotogTaphs of the nests and the spiders were also exhibited. 

 It was stated that Mr. Dennis had found these nests at Bahia, in one spot 

 only, in a cocoa-nut grove close by the sea. Mr. McLachlan read a paper 

 entitled " On species of Chrysopa observed in the Eastern Pyrenees ; 

 together with descriptions of, and notes on, new or little kno-\\ai Pala3- 

 arctic forms of the genus." The author stated that the species referred 

 to in this paper, had been observed by him in the Eastern Pyrenees, in 

 July, 1886, when staying Avith Mons. Bene Oberthiir. After describing 

 the nature of the district, and its capabilities, from an entomological 

 point of view, the paper concluded with descriptions of certain new 

 palffiarctic species of the genus. Dr. Sharp, who said that he was ac- 

 quainted with the district, and Mr. Merrifield made some remarks on 

 the paper. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



South London Entomological Society. — April IWi. — jNIr. Edwards 

 exhibited, through the President, a specimen of Papilio jovindra, from 

 the Himalayan region ; Mr. Weir remarking that the species was a mimic. 

 Mr. E. Adkin read an extract from an interesting letter addressed to 

 Mr. Billups, by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, from Jamaica, and exhibited 

 the leaves containing the species of Coccidce referred to. Mr. Manger 

 exhibited Dorippe japonica, a Crustacean from Japan. Mr. Adkin ex- 

 hibited a small collection of Sphinges and Bombyces from Sutherland- 

 shire, N.B., consisting of Sesia scoliiformis, Bork., Arctia caja, L., 

 Dicranura vinida, L., Orgyia antiqua, L., NemeopJiila plantaginis, Ij., 

 N. russnla, L., the male specimen of which had smoky hind wings, and 

 Odonestis potaioria, L., the coloration of the female being intermediate 

 between the sexes. Mr. Perks showed a bramble leaf, from Chessington, 

 Surrey, corroded by a microscopic fungus. The Secretary, Mr. H. 

 Williams, read a letter from Mr. Kobson of Hai'tlepool, requesting aid 



