244 THE ENTOSIOLOGIST S RECORD. 



then explained the tracheal respiratoiy system, and dealt with the 

 questions arising as to the origin of wings from the|gillsof aquatic larv^ai. 

 A photograph of a rare deep-sea insect, Aepopliilns bonnairii, was next 

 placed upon the screen. This is a deep-sea perfect insect ; the method 

 of its respiration is still uncertain. Dr. Smith jiointed out its rudi- 

 mentary wings, and suggested that perhaps they ought to be called 

 nascent. Other special organs of insects shown were stings, saws, 

 musical sound producers, gastric teeth, &c., and Dr. Smith noticed the 

 difficulties in tracing the evolution of these instruments of extreme 

 perfection, and of accounting for their existence upon the supposi- 

 tion that every such organ was evolved entirely thi'ough the putting 

 into practical use of its first rudimentary forms, which were not such 



as could be of any use. At the meeting of the Society on 



April 11th, Mr. Nicholson exhibited the cocoon of Brotolomia 

 meticulosa, and called attention to the ver}' small aperture through 

 which the moth had escaped : also a batch of eggs of Eudromis versicolor 

 laid by a 2 recently bred by Mr. Battley ; these had changed from 

 straw colour to a dingy chocolate. Mr. Smith announced that he had 

 bred seven specimens of SeJenia tetralunaria. Miss M. E. Eobinson 

 [We are glad to see ladies coming to the front in this society'. — Ed.] 

 rend a paper on Ockley, and stated that both Coleoptera and Lepidoptera 



are very numerous in that district. On April 25th, Mr. Battley 



recounted his experience in the New Forest at Easter. Taenioauapa 

 miniosa was taken in some numbers, and single specimens of Xylina 

 ornitho2)uti, X. socia and Pa/io//.* jv/»(?))f?rd(f, as well ati Lohophora carpinata 

 and Eupithecia abbreviata. The sallows, in spite of the cold nights and 

 persistent N.E. wind, proved fairly productive. Mr. Battle}' also 

 mentioned that T. yracilis seemed to be turning up more abundantly 

 than usual at Thejdon this year. 



At the meeting of the Birjiingham ENTOMoLOGtcAL So( ietv on 

 Feb. IStli, 1895, a letter was read from Mr. G. H. Kenrick, requesting 

 to be relieved of the office of President. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker was 

 appointed to succeed him, and Mr. P. W. Abbott was elected Vice- 

 President. Mr. Ii. Freer exhiljited the following varieties from 

 Cannock (Jhase : Rumia liiteolata, of a loveh' pale or yellow orange 

 colour, deeper along the costa ; Notodonfa diciaca of a delicate pale 

 bi'own, without any white ; a specimen of Noctna /estiva, of the form 

 called conflna by Newman. Mr. E. C. Kossiter : a specimen of Lycaena 

 astrarche from Arley, which closely approximated to L. corydon in 

 colour, and had a white spot in the centre of each wing ; also a dark 

 Cleora ijlabraria from the New Forest. Mr. K. G. B. Chase : Dianthoecia 

 conspersd from Lundy Isle. Mr. P. W. Abbott : Sesia cnliciformis from 

 Market Drayton, and a bred series of Hadena disaimilis from Hull. Mr. 

 R. C. Bradley : a rose bush from his garden at Sutton, that was covered 

 with the empty cases of CoJroiihora tiryphipenncUa. 



KEVIEW. —We have to acknowledge the recei]_it of Wayside and 

 Woodland Blossoms, by E. Step (published by Frederick Warne & Son. 

 Price 7/6). This excellent little pocket book of Botany, written in a 

 popular style, and containing a large numlier of plain and coloured 

 illustrations, will be found very useful by enttnnologists whose 

 botanical knowledge is small. — Eu. 



