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McLachlan found them in the British Museum collection of cases of 

 Caddis worms, and at that time, being only acquainted with the case, 

 he was disposed to consider them the work of one of the Leptoceridae. 

 In 1889 Herr Eogenhofer gave the name Fumea 1 limulus to the case 

 and its contents, and Mr. McLachlan agreed from the evidence then 

 adduced that the insect was Lepidopterous rather than Trichopterous. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society 

 met on October 10th, 1895, when the following among other exhibits 

 were made. By Mr. McArthur : specimens taken by him this year in 

 the Orkneys, among which were : — A series of Thera juniperata with 

 a much whiter ground-colour, while the dark markings were intensified 

 and somewhat extended ; two almost white specimens of Melanippe 

 moutanala ; three fine forms of Nemeophila plantaginis, one having 

 much darker hind-wings, while another had yellowish-red hind- 

 wings with fewer dark markings ; Epunda lutidenta vars. sedi 

 and luneburgensis. By Mr. Winkley, for Mr. Montgomery, of 

 Ealing : specimens of a second brood of Argynnis selene, captured 

 in August, in Abbot's Wood ; also a specimen of Lycaena hellargus, 

 from Eastbourne, in which the underside was very light, with the 

 base blue and many of the usual dark markings obliterated, while 

 others were extended. By Mr. R. Adkin : Noctua depuncta, from 

 Morayshire. By Mr. H. J. Turner : a specimen of Crioceris merdi- 

 gera, from Chattenden. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 September 17th, 1895. — Exhibits: — Rev. C. R. N. Burrows : a series 

 of Apamea ophiogramma, taken on sugar in his garden at Rainham ; 

 he remarked that the eggs of this species are laid in a row in a fold at 

 the edge of the leaf of ribbon grass. Mr. Bayne : a small specimen 

 of Boarmia roboraria from Epping Forest, and a brownish specimen 

 from the New Forest, in which the usual peppering of small dots was 

 wanting on that portion of each wing contiguous to the inner margin 

 and anal angle ; also a Boarmia gemmaria with a pale-greyish 

 median area to the forewings. Mr. Bacot : a series of Bryoplnla 

 perla from the Waterworks Wall, Lea Bridge, the specimens being very 

 cleanly marked. Dr. Buckell : three series of Eugenia quercinaria, 

 bred this year. The parents of Series I. were of the normal narrow- 

 lined form, with few markings ; their progeny showed a very slight 

 melanic tendency. The parents of Series II. were darker, the male 

 showing a strong leaning towards melanism in the outer third of the 

 fore-wings ; many of the male progeny showed considerable darkening 

 on both inner and outer third of fore-wing, the females having the 

 lines strongly marked, and in some casess bowing a considerable 

 sprinkling of dark scales. The parents of Series III. were a very dark 

 male and a very pale female ; the progeny were all dark (some 

 extremely so), and many of the females had the outer third of fore- 

 wings very dark, Mr. Nicholson also exhibited a short bred series of 

 the same species. The parents were a male with outer third of fore- 

 Avings considerably suftused with a smoky tint, and a female with 

 inner and outer thirds also very much suftused. All the females bred 

 showed a strong melanic tendency in the outer third, except one, 

 and all, except two, were dark on the inner third ; the males all 

 showed similar darkening, and one was entirely suftused with the 

 smoky brown tint, especially on the inner and outer thirds. 



