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ziczac, Grapta c-album (a series of the pale second brood), and Cerura bifida, all 

 from Wyre Forest. Mr. E. C. Rossiter, Acherontia Atropos from Norfolk ; Bombyx 

 ruhi, nice brown specimens from the Hebrides ; Acidalia imitaria from N. Wales ; 

 Thecla w-album from Arley, where he had discovered it on the railway bank between 

 Arley and Highley ; it has not hitherto been known in the Birmingham district, 

 excepting by a chance specimen, but was not uncommon in this one spot ; also 

 Caenonympha Davus, a series from the Hebrides, Scodiona belgiaria from the Hebrides, 

 and Nudaria mundana from Arley. Mr. J. T. Fountain, a fine series of Selidosema 

 ericetaria from the Dorsetshire coast ; Papilio Machaon bred from Wicken larvae ; 

 Colias Eduxa from Knowle, and with var. Helice from Dorsetshire ; and a long fine 

 bred series of Gortyna ochracea fi'om various places near to Birmingham. Mr. P. W. 

 Abbott, a specimen of Leucania vitellina, which was taken by Mr. John Hodges at 

 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, at sugar on the night of September 8th during a thunder- 

 storm. Messrs. A. H. Martineau and C. J. Wainwright, a number of insects taken 

 at Wyre Forest during a few days spent together there last Whitsuntide : they in- 

 cluded, among the Hymenoptera — Pompilus viaticus and spissus, Osmia spinulosa, 

 and Passalaecus gracilis ; amongst the Diptera — Conops vesicularis, Doros conopseus 

 (one), Dioctria atricapilla, D. alandica, and nice series of Chrysotoxum sylvarum, 

 Syrphus nitidicollis, and Pipizella virens ; among the Lepidoptera — Hadena genistcB, 

 Tephrosia extersaria, Lobophora viretata and L. halterata ; also a nice series of 

 Eucera longicornis $ . Mr. Wainwright showed and presented to the library a map 

 he had drawn of the area selected by Mr. Kenrick for adoption by the Society as the 

 Birmingham district. — CoLBBAN J. Wainwkight, Hon. Secretary. 



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The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 September lOih, 1896.— W. Mansbridge, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. A. E. Hall exhibited a gravid female of Termes bellicosus from Cape Coast 

 Castle, and a series of captured Callimorpha Hera from Newton Abbot. Mr. Lucas, 

 a female of Platetrum depressum having the male blue coloration, a male Calopteryx 

 virgo, having the right fore-wing without the dark pigment, and a pair of the 

 grasshopper Thamnotrizon vinereum from the New Forest. Mr. Montgomery, a 

 bred series of Dianthcecia capsincola from Eastbourue, one specimen had a wide 

 submarginal line and a marginal area without the wavy lines. 



September Mth, 1896.— C. Gr. Barrett, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited living larvae of Cyaniris Argiolus in situ on the buds 

 of ivy blossom from Eastbourne, also full fed larvae of Aplecta occulta. Mr. Filer, a 

 fine variety of Enodia hyperanthus, having the white spots surrounded by yellow 

 rings only, the black rings being entirely obsolete ; it was taken in Essex. Mr. 

 Moore, specimens of Thelyphoniis giganteus, a species midway between the Scorpions 

 and the Spiders, from Florida, and contributed notes ; also he showed specimens of 

 Polistes annularis and a nest. Mr. Turner, a varied series of Noctua xanthographa, 

 including a black form, a pale form, a red form, and a form with unusually well 

 defined stigmata ; a very dark Agrotis segetum from Kent ; a Triphmna pronuba 

 with a remnant of a discoidal spot ; and two bred Acronycta aceris with the veins 

 of the secondaries deeply lined with black. Mr. Montgomery, specimens of Noctua 

 ditrapezium from South Yorks. Mr. Barrett, very long and varied series of Tephrosia 



