() I [April. 



August 15th, 1888. Mr. South, bred specimens of P. pedaria from a black female 

 taken at Macclesfield ; the males were of the same form as those of Col. Partridge, 

 but most of the females were black. Mr. Adkin, specimens and sections of the 

 nodules of Betinia reslnella, to illustrate remarks made at the previous Meeting. 

 Mr. Frohawk, bred male and female of Ni/ssta lapponaria, the ova having been 

 obtained from Mr. Christy ; the female was alive. Mr. West, of Greenwich, a 

 female N. hispidaria taken in West Wickham Woods. Mr. Lucas, a Carding Spider 

 taken at Hampton Court. Mr. Barrett, the series of the various species of the genus 

 Dianthcecia from his own collection, including every shade of both D. carpophaga 

 and D. capsophila from various British localities ; D. Barrettii, with continental D. 

 luteago for comparison, and the only known Welsh and English examples ; D. casia, 

 with continental forms for comparison ; D. albimacula from Dover, Folkestone and 

 Portsmouth ; two drawers from the cabinet of Mr. Sydney Webb containing the 

 same species, and including the two D. eompta from the late Mr. Bond's collection ; 

 and also Mr. Adkin's scries of DianthcBcicB. In the discussion which ensued, Mr. 

 Barrett considered D. carpophaga and D. capsophila as one and the same species, 

 he was convinced that D. Barrettii was but an extreme local form of the continental 

 D. luteago, and felt almost inclined to say that there never was a British specimen 

 of Z*. eompta. Messrs. Adkin and Tutt preferred to consider the first named as 

 closely allied species, possessing extreme parallelism in their range of variation. 

 Various Members testified as to the doubtful origin of British D. eompta. Mr. Hall 

 said that he always found D. carpophaga larvae on Lychnis vespertina, and scarcely 

 any on Silene. Mr. McArthur gave instances of how D. coiispersa always resembled 

 the colour of rocks or walls on which it sat in various districts. Mr. Tutt said that 

 D. cucubali was the only member of the genus wliich came to sugar, and that it was 

 also double brooded. — Hy. J. Tuenee, Kon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : February \^th, 1896. — Prof. Raphael 

 Meldola, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. Hudson Beare, of Park House, King's Road, Richmond ; Mr. William 

 James Kaye, of Worcester Court, Worcester Park, Surrey ; and Mr. Charles H. 

 Dolby-Tyler, of the British Consulate, Guayaquil, Ecuador, South America ; were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. D. Siiarp exhibited preparations of Dytiscus latissimus and Cybister 

 Roeselii, to show the so-called secondary wing noticed by Meinert. He stated that 

 this structure is only a part of the elytron, to which it is extensively attached, and 

 that he considered that it corresponded with the angle at the base of the wing seen 

 in so many insects that fold their front wing against the body. He could not 

 consider that this structure afforded any support to the view that the elytra of 

 beetles correspond with the tegulse of Eymenoptera rather than with the front 

 wings. Mr. McLachlan, Prof. Meldola, and Mr. Gahan made some remarks on the 

 subject. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, for Dr. H. G. Knaggs, cells of Betinia 

 resinella formed of resin but lined with wax. A portion of the cell had been 

 removed and the resin dissolved away with spirit, leaving a slight film of wax {cf. 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., Nov., 1895, pp. 251, 252). Mr. Tutt stated that a secretion of wax 



