68 THE entomologist's record. 



one species, but migrated from one to another, without compunction. 

 He originally obtained the insect from the eggs of Mainestra brassicae, 

 but successive generations had been reared from Tryjihaeiia pronHba, 

 and other Noctuids. There seemed to be no limit to the number of 

 broods possible in a single season, and the destruction caused by the 

 parasite must be immense. 



We have received reports of the proceedings of a new society, The 

 Nonpareil Entomological, Society, which meets at the King John's 

 Head, Mansfield Street, Kingsland Road, its secretary being Mr. J. G. 

 Craft. At the meeting on September 6th, Mr. Norman exhibited the 

 following living Coleoptera, which he had captured at Enfield, and 

 reported as being very plentiful in that locality : — Dytisnis inanjinaiis 

 (carnivorous), Ili/dropliiln.'i ju'ceuK, 11. colij}iihetii<, and H. acilins (both 

 herbivorous and carnivorous). Mr. Raine showed a preserved larva of 

 Ep/ic-^tia kuhniclla, which he found in a tin of Dr. Allinson's food, 

 webbed inside the food. Many of the members considered that 

 the species was not British, but an importation. Mr. Jackson showed 

 a very fine form of Arrtia '■aia, which was of a iiniform cream colour, 

 with just a dark patch on each wing ; it had been bred from a larva 

 taken on Hackney Marshes. Mr. Craft exhibited Catarlysta leninata, 

 Hydroraiiijia vy)iijihaeata, and U. stagnata, which he had captured at 

 a pond at Woodford ; he remarked that, although they were plentiful, 

 they were not easy to capture, as, when once disturbed, they fiew out 



over the water and settled in the roots of the rushes. On September 



19th, Mr. Newbery shoAved a specimen of Vanessa nrticae, captured by 

 him in a house at Camden Town, the whole of whose wings were of 

 a dull leaden colour. 



At a meeting of the North London Natural History Society, on 

 August 22nd, Mr. Battley reported that sugaring Avas a failure just 

 now, but that he and Mr. Rose had found grass stems productive on 

 some occasions. Mr. Tremayne had only seen a single specimen of 



Crysoiihanns jihloeas this year. On September 12th, Mr. Nicholson 



exhibited Pseudoterpna prninata, bred from larvtt obtained in Epping 

 Forest ; in one specimen the space between the transverse lines on the 

 right fore-wing was converted into a dark green band ; also a specimen 

 of Galocainpa vetusla, recently bred from a larva obtained at Pwllheli. 

 Mr. Tremayne : a specimen of Pterostotna paljtina, taken in a train at 



Hackney Downs Station on August 2nd. On September 26th, Mr. 



Gentry showed a specimen of Pliisia moncta from Walmer. Mr. 

 Hardy stated that he had been round the north coast of Ireland, and had 

 observed that the Lepidoptera there were much richer in colour than 

 here. Mr. Prout reported that he had captured Leiuania viteUina at 

 Sandown. 



At the meeting of the Birmingham Entomological Society, on 

 July 15th, Mr. R. C. Bradley stated that Mr. McLachlan had identified 

 the fungus referred to at the previous meeting as £')»j^«tsrt conglomemta, 

 a species found on TipuUdae in America and Germany, but which had 

 not hitherto been observed in Great Britain. Mr. Waimvright said he 

 had found several lots of flies similarly affected at Sutton, and had taken 

 one specimen on the wing which developed the fungus on the Avay home. 

 Mr. Martineau reported that he had seen a specimen on the wing at 

 Bridgnorth, in which the fungus was well developed. Mr. Abbott ex- 

 hibited Macroglossa bombyllfurniis, ( ymatophora or, C. duplaris, C. 

 Jluctuosa, Bisulcia iigustri, Tephrosia extersaria, Asthena blomeri, 



