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Hepialus lupulinus, L., and bred series of Earias chlorana, L., and Crambtis 

 chrysonuchellus, Scop. Mr. Frohawk, ^co?ii/a Z«(r^MO«a, Esp., from Cudham, and the 

 life-history of Cidaria silaceata, Hb. Mr. Wellman, Nemeobius Lucina, L. Mr. W. 

 A. Pearce, Pygcera pigra, Hufn., also Cucullia verhasci, L., from larvae found at 

 Mickleham. Mr. J. T. Williams, Acronycta alni, L., and a fine series of Aphomia 

 sociella, L., bred from the cluster of cocoons found by him under a stone in his 

 garden at Foots Cray, and which were exhibited by Mr. Billups at the meeting of 

 the Society held on the ] 5th April last. Mr. Billups exhibited large groups of the 

 larvse of Hyponomeuta padelhis, L., which he said he had received from Gravesend, 

 and he understood that an enormous amount of damage had been caused by these 

 larvae to the whole of the apple orchards in Kent and Oxfordshire. A discussion 

 then took place as to the probable cause of the appearance in such large numbers of 

 these larvae, and the best means of exterminating them, in which Messrs. Adkin, 

 Tugwell, J. T. Williams, Chaney, Wellman, West, and others took part. Mr. 

 Billups also exhibited the following Ichneumonidce bred by Mr. Elisha : Colastes 

 hraconius, Hall, from Lithocolletis spinicolella, KoL, Sta. ; Apanteles iicolor, Ns., 

 from Lithocolletis lantanella, Schr., Sta. ; Limneria interupta, Gr., from Sericoris 

 euphorbiana, Frr. ; also Mesoleius sanguinicollis, Gr., and Pimpla brevicornis, Gr., 

 both bred by Mr. Wellman from Gracilaria siigmatella, Fb., Sta. ; and he also 

 exhibited two species of TenthredinidcB — Allantus viennesis, Schr., and Hylotoma 

 cceruleipennis, Ktz., taken in copuld at Hayling Island on the 7th June. 



July 1st, 1886 : The President in the Chair. 



Dr. C. Mordaunt Matthew, and Messrs. Pawsey and E. E. Salwey were elected 

 Members. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited a varied series of Lyeana Icarus, Rott. Mr. W. 

 West, some interesting forms of Acronycta megacephala, Fb. Mr. E. Joy, Anesychia 

 decemguttella, Hb., Sta., bred from larvae beaten near Wicken Fen. Mr. South, 

 Eupithecia togata, Hb., bred from Perthshire pupae, and a fine variety of Melanippe 

 fluctuata, L., taken on a fence in the neighbourhood of St. John's Wood. Mr, 

 Wellman, Thecia rubi, L., in one specimen the white spots on the under-side being 

 absent ; a variety of Lyccena Icarus, Eott., a long series of Eupithecia rectangulata, 

 L., var. nigrosericeata. Haw., and a light gray variety of the same species ; also 

 a series of Aciptilia galactodactyla, Hb., bred from larvae taken during the Society's 

 excursion to Horsley on the 29th May last. Mr. Sheldon, Angerona prunaria, L., 

 Dianthvecia conspersa, Esp., bred from Deal larvae, Asthena luteata, Schiff., and 

 Phoxopteryx derasana, Hb., from Riddlesdown. Mr. Billups exhibited two living 

 larvae of Boarmia repandata, L., handed to him by Mr. South, and which showed a 

 curious arrangement of the cocoons of a species of Panteles ; the larvae spun a little 

 pad of silk, then bent themselves into a bow on the twig and the parasites began to 

 creep out of the host and form their cocoons to which the larvae seemed to be affixed. 

 — H. W. Barker and W. A. Pearce, Kon. Sees. 



Entomological Society of Lo»don, Jnly 'jth, 1886 : J. Jenner Weir, Esq., 

 F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., United States, was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Society. 



