304 THE entomologist's record. 



all females, supposed to be hybrids lietween C. ocularis male and C. or 

 female, from the above stock in each case, bred as a second brood in 

 August and September, 1893. He stated that he j^laced the re})uted 

 piarents in a muslin sleeve on a branch of Fopulus nigra, and did not 

 open the sleeve until the resulting larvae required fresh food. To the 

 best of his belief the female parent had no chance of pairing with a 

 male of her own species. The supposed hybrids resembled the female 

 parent, except that lioth orljicular and reniform stigmata Avere very 

 conspicuous, being pure white filled up slightly' with black, whereas in 

 C. or they are iisually inconsjiicuous, and the orbicular is sometimes 

 wanting. None of the C. or bred liad the stigmata developed so fully 

 as had the hybrids, which were most uniform in this respect. Mr. F. 

 J. Hanbury exhibited a specimen of Leucnnia vitellina, taken at Brocken- 

 hurst on August 24th, 1893, by Mrs. Hanlniry, and another taken by 

 himself at Fresliwater, Isle of Wight, on September 7th ; also an 

 extraordinary Gonepteryx rhaiimi, showing red lilotches at the tips of 

 the fore wings, taken by a gardener at ^Yalthamsto\v, Essex. Mr. C. 

 (j. Barrett exhil)ited a gynandrous Argi/nnis paphia recentlj^ taken in 

 the New Forest by Mr. Cardew. Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a specimen 

 of Deilephila lirornica recently caught at Christchurch, Hants. Mr. 

 Elwes exhibited and described two species of the genus (Eneis 

 (Chioaohas, Bdv.j, (E. heani and CE. alberta, from North America, which 

 had not ]n'eviously l)een described, and stated that he liad prepared, 

 with Mr. Edwards's assistance, a revision of this ver}^ difficult genus, 

 whicli would 1)0 read at the November meeting. Mr. Osbert Salvin 

 communicated a paper entitled " Description of a new genus and species 

 (Baronia hrericornis) of PapilionicUr from Mexico," and exhibited both 

 sexes. Dr. Sharp read a jxaper entitled " On the Cost and Value of 

 Insect Collections." Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, IMr. McLachlan, Mr. 

 Jacoby, 31r. Waterliouse and the President took part in the discussion 

 Avhich ensued. Professor Auguste Forel communicated a paper entitled 

 " Formicides de I'Antille, St. Vincent, recoltees par Mons. H. H. 

 Smith." Mr. W. F. H. Blandford read a paper entitled " Description 

 of a New Subfamily of the Scoli/tida'.'' The President, Mr. Jacoby, 

 and Mr. "Waterliouse took part in the discussion which ensued. 



October ISth, 1893. — Mr. E. Adkin exhibited two Leucania ritellina 

 and one L. extranea, taken ])y Mr. B. W. Adkin in the Scilly Islands, 

 in August, 1893. Mr. E South cxliibited a specimen of PoJijommatus 

 bceticus, and a niimber of varieties of Chriisophanns pMceas, captured in 

 Kent, in September last by Mr. Sabine ; also a curious variet}^ of 

 Argijnnis euphrosyne taken in Lancashire in Ma}', 1893, hy Mr. T. Baynes ; 

 a pallid variety of Vanessa urticm, taken hj Mr. W. E. Cox in Mon- 

 mouthshire, in July, 1893 ; and a Triphcena p)ronuha, the right wings of 

 which were typical, and the left wings resembled the variety innuba, 

 caught at sugar, in Dovedale, Derbyshire, by Mr. Blagg in July, 1893. 

 Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited a specimen of the Tsetse (Glossina morsitans), 

 and also one of the common European allied species {Stomoxys calcitrans). 

 He also exhilnted a specimen of Hcematobia. serrata, Dsv., which, lie 

 stated, was not uncommon on cattle in England, but believed to be 

 harmless ; while in North America the dreaded " horn-fly " is said to be 

 the same species. Mr. Elwes exhibited a larva which he had found 

 three days previously under stones on a moraine, apjiarently quite 

 destitute of vegetation, in the Tvrol, at an elcA-ation of about 7,000 



