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of Ichneumonid and Braconid parasites on Lepidoptera. From Skelmanthorpe 

 he had Pimpla alternans, Grav., ? , from Boarmia repandata ; Stenichnewnon 

 trilineatus, Gmel., <? , from Abraxas grossulariata ; a new species of Ophion which 

 Mr. Claude Morley will describe in the next volume of his "Ichneumonologia 

 Britannica," from Agrotis agathina and Tseniocampa populeti ; Macrocentrus 

 infinnus, Nees, from Dasypolia templi • Apanteles salebrosus, Marsh., from Pieris 

 brassicx ; and Blaptocampus nigricomis, Wesm., $ , from Cabera pusaria. From 

 Normanton he had bred four Hemiteles similis, Gmel. (one ? ), hyper-parasitic 

 through a species of Apanteles from Emmelesia alchemillata ; Apanteles spurius, 

 Wesm., from Hadena pisi ; and Lissonota sulphurifera, Grav., $ , from Dianthoccia 

 carpophaga. From Penistone Moors, Barylypa insidiator, Forst., $, from 

 Acronycta menyanthidis. From Doncaster, Microgaster connexus, Nees, from 

 Porthesia auriflua. From Canterbury, East Kent, Meteorus caligatus, Hal., £ , 

 from Eupithecia absynthiata. From West Cornwall, Probolus alticola, Grav., J , 

 from Toxocampa craccse. From Aberdeen, Pimpla instigator, Fab., <J, from 

 Acronycta euphorbise. Mr. G. T. Porritt read the report on Neuroptera and 

 Orthoptera ; and Mr. W. Falconer that on Arachnida. 



The exhibits of Coleoptera were numerous and of much interest. Mr. Cribb, 

 a box of Hydradephaga from the Bradford district. Amongst them were 

 numerous confirmations of the older records, including Bidessus geminus 

 previously recorded only from Hebden Bridge in 1831. Hydroporus discretus, 

 Agabus congener, Helochares 2>unctatus, Homalota tibialis, U. islandica, Myccto- 

 porus clavicornis, Anisotoma ovalis, Longitarsus ochroleucus, and L, membranaceus, 

 all from North Yorkshire, by Mr. M. L. Thompson. Coccinella hieroglyphica, 

 Monochamus stitor, Phyllobrotica 4-maculata, Ophomts brevicollis, and other 

 local captures by Dr. Jordan of Bubwith. Dyschirius seneus and Heterocerus 

 britannicus by E. G. Bayford, who also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. C. Horrell, 

 of Scarborough, a munber of rare species taken in that district, e.g. — Notiophilus 

 hypocrita, Hydrsena longior, Bledius terebrans, Micralymma brevipenne, Longi- 

 tarsus senecionis, and Tomicus laricis. The same gentleman had also sent a 

 number of interesting melanic forms and colour varieties, with several speci- 

 mens showing asymmetry. Amongst these were an almost black Nebria livida 

 and the varieties rubens and lateralis of Podabrus alpinus. 



Those of Lepidoptera were numerous, the most noteworthy being an extra- 

 ordinary, and probably unique, variety, of Anchocelis rufina, of an almost 

 uniform dark chocolate colour, by Dr. Smart, who took it among specimens of 

 the ordinary forms in South Wales. Mr. G. T. Porritt showed the best of the 

 varieties of Abraxas grossulariata he had bred during the year, including four 

 exceptionally fine dark nigrosparsata from wild larvae from Huddersfield. 

 Mr. Fred. Kaye showed the variety varleyata from the same district, and Mr. A. 

 Whitaker had bred the same form from Barnsley. Mr. Fletcher showed four 

 specimens of Aplecta occulta taken at sugar in Haw Park, Wakefield ; black 

 Fidonia atomaria from the moors, near Huddersfield, were shown by various 

 members, as were other similar, but now well known, variations in other species. 

 Dr. Croft exhibited a collection of Alpine, &c, butterflies, taken by himself this 

 year. The Hymenoptera included the various parasites bred by Mr. B. Morley, 



