58 TFiE entomologist's rkcord. 



Psodos coracina (trepidaria) from Eannoch ; Mr. G. H. Kenrick, Calo- 



campa solidatjinis from Sutherlaudshire, which were lighter and greyer 

 than the Cannock Chase form ; Mr. Bradley showed a variable series of 

 Chrysophnmis jMoeas. Mr. Belhune-Baker alluded to Mr. Merrifield's 

 experimental breeding of the species, which led that gentlemen to the 

 conclusion that, larvaj reared at a high temperature, produced imagines 

 of dnrk and dull colours, whilst those reared at a low temperature, pro- 

 duced paler and In-igliter imagines. Mr. Bradley said that he had taken 

 some very light forms in Septemlier and (October, and these must have 

 fed u]» during tlie hot months. 



In South Wales, The Penartu Entomoi.ogical Society seems, 

 judging from the report presented at the annual meeting on Jan. 20th, 

 to be doing good work. The j^apers read during the past year cover a 

 wider held than is usual in such societies, and show that the members 

 are interested in the scientific problems that confront the thoughtful 

 naturalist. Sir J. T. D. Llewellyn, J. P., is the President, and Mr. 

 John Wallis, Kendrick House, Penarth, the Secretary for the coming 

 year. It is to be lioped that the regretful reiH'oach which is levelled at 

 them in the report, will induce those members who have hitherto only 

 been " ornamental " to join the ranks of the " useful ones." 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society*. — 

 January 2*id, 1894. — Exhibits : — Mr. Stillwell ; a variable series 

 of Ilyhernia defoliaria from Epping Eorest. Mr. Lane ; a series 

 of Clu'lonia plantaglnis. Mr. Bacot ; a bred series of Vanessa c-album, 

 one of which had white triangular marks on the underside of the hind 

 wings in place of the usual " comma " marks ; he stated that this 

 species rested with its fore wings much further forward than is usual 

 among butterflies, so that there was a larger interval between them and 

 the hind Avings, the habit serving to intensify its resemblance to a dead 

 leaf. Mr. Bell; a specimen of a Noctua taken on sugar at Tooting 

 Common, its peculiarity being that a semi-circular patch at the outer 

 side of each fore wing was entirely devoid of scales ; the patches were 

 remarkably symmetrical ; the specimen was considered by most of those 

 ])resent to be a ? of CWigo eytherea. Messrs. Clark, Hill, Prout, 

 Battley and Dr. Sequeira exhilnted Scotch lepidoptera. Mr. Oldham ; 

 dragon-flies and bees from Cambridgeshire. Mr. Hill read a paper 

 entitled " Random Notes on Collecting Lepidoptera in Scotland," which 

 lie illustrated by the contents of three cases. The paper was based on 

 the writer's exi)eriences at Eannoch, in August, 1891, and in the 

 Orkney and Slietland Islands in August, 1892. Having described the 

 locality, Mr. Hill passed in review the insects he had captured. Two 

 specimens of Vanessa urticae were very strongly marked and larger than 

 those met with in the South of England. Erebia hlandina was met Avith 

 abundantly in one particular sjiot on the banks of the Tummell ; any 

 numlier might be taken l)y simply Avalking about in the grass and net- 

 ting tliose that flew up ; the species was however extremely local; its 

 flight was very similar to that of Epinephele ianira, but it always 

 disa})peared entirely and refused to be kicked out, as soon as the sun 

 Avent in ; the species Avas also noticed in the Pass of Killiecrankie. It 

 Avas too late for Coenonymplia typ)hon, and only three si:)ecimens Avere 

 secured ; these Avere flying over the heather on the mountain sides at 

 a considerable elcA-ation. Two larvjv of Smcrinthus populi, found on 

 aspen, yielded in the folloAving season two ? imagines Avhich Avere much 



