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other similar case. — The annual meeting of the Society was held on 

 February iith, Mr. G. H. Kenrick Avas elected President ; Mr. G. T. 

 Bethuue-Baker, Vice- President, and Mr. 0. J. Wainwriglit, 147, Hall 

 Koad, Handsworth, Secretary for the ensuing year. Mr. P. W. Al)bott 

 exhiliited Aciddlid hnniiUata from the Isle of Wiglit, one specimen taken 

 by himself in 1891, others ca})tured by j\Ir. A. J. Hodges ; an unusually 

 dark specimen of Hadoui nana (dentina) from Sutton, and a pale chalk- 

 cliff form from the Isle of Wight; these were utterly unlike in 

 appearance ; a specimen of Lohophora virefata from Sutton, which was 

 small and pale and lacked the usual median bands. Mr. A. H. Martineau 

 exhibited workers of 3L/rmica rnfa and M. savguinea, and stated that 

 he had found a nest of the latter species at Wyre Forest last year. — ( hi 

 March 19th, Mr. Martineau exhibited a small collection of Lepidoptcra, 

 mainly Butterflies, taken on Lundy Island liy j\Ir. R. W. (.'base, many 

 of the specimens being distinctly below the average size. It included 

 Sntyrns semele, Vanessa atahintd, V.urticae, V. jJoIi/cJilnros, Bomhyx rnhl, 

 Zi/gaena trifolU, Z. fiUpondidae, etc. Mr. P. W. Abbott exhil)ited single 

 specimens of LcKcania obsnlpfa and Senta maritima, from tlie neighl)our- 

 hood of Ely. 



No notice of the doings of the Ua:mbkidge ENTo:\i()i.o(;[(Arj Society 

 has appeared in this magazine since April last ; the Society, however, 

 has not been idle. Since our last report eight meetings have heew held. 

 At these the following among other exhibits have been made. Mr. 

 Theobald, who during the winter lectures in North Kent on insects 

 injurious to cro])s, kc. showed several cases illustrative of the life- 

 histories of suc-Ii insects ; also specimens of the Tortoise l)eetle, Aspidlo- 

 morp/iu sanie-cnicis from the Elephanta caves of Bombay ; also Stylojiiscd 

 bees and mounted specimens of both ^ and $ Stylo2)s. INIr. Jones ; a 

 speciuien of Vanessa antiopa taken at Cambridge in 1S7G and Triphaeim 

 suhseqna, taken at Chippenhaui Fen in 1891. Mr. Kickards ; Thecla 

 lo-album, Agrofis ohsciira (rav/'d(<) (md Epnnda luhtJenta, taken at Oaiu- 

 bridge ; also some parasites lired from larva\ of wliicli he gave tlu^ 

 following history : — 



'' Earl}- in June I found scA'eral green larvae, presumably those of 

 Folia flamdncla; on or about the 17th I noticed on one of them some 

 small objects which resembled green Aphides, but M'hich, on examining 

 them through a lens, I discovered to be parasites ; they were attached 

 at the junction of the several segments of the larva, or, in some instances 

 were found where the false-legs or claspers joined on to tlie bodv. In 

 appearance they resembled small flask-sha2)ed vesicles, filled Avitli a 

 very bright-green solution of chlorophyll, and showed no traces of 

 either internal or external organs : by the 20th they had increased in 

 size, and began to assume a milky or clouded appearance and to exl libit 

 some slight indication of structure : up to this date I l)elieved that they 

 were external parasites : their develojnnent was now rapid ; on the 21st 

 most of them had freed themselves from any connection with their 

 host, were whitish-grey in colour, and in two individuals a small black 

 rounded mass (much like the head of a small fly) made its appearance 

 at one end : on the morning of the 22nd all of them were j^rovided 

 with these black masses, which I could now see were of an excre- 

 mentitious nature. Towards night several of them had assumed a more 

 or less sooty-gi'ey appearance, one being very nearly black ; the legs 

 were now plainly visi))le through the skin of the nymph ur jjupa ; on 



