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long scries in very fine condition ; Heliothis armigera, Hb., worn ; Aspilates ochre- 

 aria, Rossi (citraria, Hb.), a nice long series ; Acidalic subsericeata, Haw. ; and a 

 very fine long series of A. marginepunctata, Goeze. Mr. A. D. Imms, mounted 

 preparations and drawings or marine larva;, which he believed belonged to tbe 

 genus Clnnio, Hal., and which were taken submerged in rock pools at Port Erin 

 Bay, Isle of Man. Mr. J. T. Fountain, Lepidoptera from Jersey ; a series of 

 Callimorpha quadripunctaria, Poda {Sera, L.), including forms running into 

 yellow ; a long and very variable series of Bryophila muralls, Forst. ; and a very fine 

 series of Psecadia bipunctella, F. The last species he said was found early in the 

 morning, and the earlier they were looked for the more there were ; the greater 

 number being found at 6 a.m. Mr. R. C. Bradley, a series of the Syrphid Peleco- 

 cera tricincta from Bournemouth, taken this summer ; this time he found them on 

 the cliffs, not in the hollows of the Chines, as before. 



December \6th, 1901.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. II. Martineau showed Hymenoptera from Tubney, near Oxford, in 

 Berks, a sandy locality ; they included Cleptes pallipes, Lep. ; Crahro palmarius, 

 Schreb., <$ , and Nysson dimidiatus, J ur. Mr. A. D. Imms showed empty cocoons 

 and pupal cases of (Ecophora sulphnrella, Wd., from Moseley. Air. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, a collection of Lyccenidce, of the sub-families Liptena and Pentila-, from 

 South Africa ; they are remarkably mimetic, resembling in greater or less degree 

 many widely different forms of Lepidoptera, some were almost perfect mimics of 

 Acraidce, others resembled strongly Pieridce and various Geometrids ; though the 

 object of some of these last resemblances was difficult to understand. Mr. Colbran 

 J. Wainwright, a small collection of Chrysids, including Chrysis viridula, Smith, 

 from Wyre Forest, C. succincta, L., from St. Ives, Cornwall, C. pu.itulosa, Ab., from 

 West Hide, near Hereford, Hedychridium roseum, Rossi, from West Runton, Norfolk, 

 and Ellampus cceruleus, Dhlb., from West Runton and West Hide.— Colbran J. 

 Wainwright, Hon. Secretary. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Dec 9th, 1901, in 

 the Grosvcnor Museum, Chester, where the Members were most cordially received 

 by the Curator, Mr. Robert Newstead, F.E.S., and Dr. H. Dobie. The Vice- 

 President, Mr. R. Wilding, occupied the Chair. 



The Chairman, on behalf of the Society, thanked Mr. Newstead for his hand- 

 some donation to the library of a copy of the first vol. of his work on the Scale 

 Insects, entitled, " A Monograph of the British Coccidce." The work, purely a 

 labour of love, is not only of great interest to the scientist as being the first 

 Monograph of these injurious insects ever published in this country, but is also of 

 great practical value to the fruit grower, and it would be well if a copy of it could 

 be placed in the hands of every market gardener and horticulturist throughout the 

 land. The following exhibits were examined : — Recent specimens of Lyccena Arion, 

 and Welsh specimens of Saturnia pavonia by Mr. Newstead ; British Aphodii, 

 including A. villosus, and .Egialia rufa by Mr. Wilding ; Trigonogenius globulus, 

 an introduced Coleopteron, new Lo the Cheshire list, on behalf of Mr. E. J. Burgess 

 Sopp ; rare Aculeate Hymenoptera from Cheshire and N. Wales, including Pompilus 

 approximates, Astata stigma, Oxybelus mucronatus, Vespa austriaca, Colletes ettni- 



