192 THE entomologist's record. 



specimens were in such fine condition that they must have been intro- 

 duced into Tenerife in the hirval or pupal state and emerged there. 

 Mr. Tutt stated that he had received specimens from Captain Ellis, 

 which had been taken in the iVtlantic Ocean, many miles from the 

 nearest land, evidently migrating at the time. The specimens con- 

 sisted of males, and two forms of females. Mr. Hampson added 

 that this was an addition to the fauna of the district where the speci- 

 mens were captured. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society 

 met on November 28th. —Mr. E. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Mewtjona 

 arctosdlae, Fb., a species new to Britain. It was taken on October 26th, 

 near Brighton. Mr. Carrington: four xanthic specimens of Kpincjihclc 

 jaiiira, L., from Leigh, Essex, taken in the same field in 1890-91 ; also 

 typical lemon-coloured forms of Thiiiiuiicus linrola from Shoeburyness. 

 Mr. Henry J. Turner : a specimen of the moorland form of xYoci»fl/'i".s<//Y/, 

 from Carlisle ; ( 'raiubus j)iii('Ui(.'<, from Box Hill ; a very rosy specimen 

 of Anticlra ndiiilata, bred, from Chichester; and a pair of ('(icci/.c 

 cosiiiopliorana, from Carlisle. A long discussion took place on the life- 

 history of this latter species. Mr. McArthur had bred a number from 

 the knobs produced by lietinia resinella, a year after they had emerged, 

 and said that he found the larvae in the frass of this species. 

 It was not found at Kannoch, but had been recorded from several 

 localities where H. rcxinclla was not known to occur. Mr. 

 Ashdown : a bred specimen of Acroni/rta aim, from Richmond, 

 and a specimen of Kumenca eoarctata. Mr, Briggs : an Orthopteron, 

 Pcrijtlancta anstrala-nae, taken at Kew, and new to Britain. — 

 On December 12th, 1895, Mr. Barrett exhibited on behalf of Mr. 

 Brooks, of Rotherham, a long, bred series of Bonniiia repandata, 

 including black forms, and forms having the dark markings intensified 

 but not extended; a series of the grey form of Tephrosia binndttlaria, 

 both from Rotherham ; and a large number of specimens of Lepidop- 

 tera, collected near Lake Tanganyika, from November, 1892, to 

 February, 1893, including two recently-named species, «/c. : — Pseudo- 

 spiris pjaidiformis and Sapaca trimeni. Mr. Carpenter: Taeniocampa 

 munda, T. (jothica, T. stahiJiK, T. incerta, T. pulvernlenta, Paclmohia 

 ruhricosa, and red T. gracilis, taken at sallow-bloom in his own 

 garden at Streatham. Colonel Partridge : a nearly pure white 

 Cucidlia ahsi/ntJiii, bred at Portland. Mr. Barrett, on behalf of Dr. 

 Mason, a number of extreme varieties of Lepidoptera, including 

 Agrotis scgetum, uniformly pale and destitute of markings, a uni- 

 colorous A, corticea, adark suffused Acroiiyctn aim, an unicolorous pale 

 Noctun augur, extreme dark and light forms oiA. lucernea, A. sitituhtns, 

 A. agatliina and Ptilopliora phimigera, a pair of A. var. suhgofhico, 

 and a very large Noctua subrosea. Mr. Adkin: s'peciniensoi Hi/ drarci a 

 micacea from W. Meath, similar in depth of colour to H. pefasitis, 

 and also a small Agrotis saucia, having purplish-grey primaries and 

 black-outlined stigmata. Mr. Tunaley : a var. of Lycaena corydon, 

 with a wide black border, and another with the black border absent, 

 both from Freshwater; specimens of As Huh crabrouiformis, with 

 L. icarus impaled on their lancets ; and a series of L. corydon, remark- 

 able for the tendency to angularity in the hind-wings, taken at Fresh- 

 water ; also specimens of L. bcdlargns and L. icarus, showing the 

 same tendency, and contributed notes on the peculiarity. Mr. 

 Winkley, on behalf of Mr. Montgomery : a large number of recently- 

 bred Colias edusa. 



