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Abraxas grossulariata, L., and spenimens of Dicrorampha consortana, S., var. 

 distinctana, Hein. With reference to this last mentioned insect, Mr. South said 

 that he first took a couple of specimens in 1881 in North Devon, one of which was 

 sent to Mr. C. Or. Barrett, who identified it as Dicrorampha distinctana of Heine- 

 mann. This year he has bred 14 specimens from a batch of Chrysanthemum 

 received from North Devon, and the larva was identical with the description of a 

 larva of consortana taken by him at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Mr. J. J. Weir, 

 exhibited seven specimens of Argynnis Paphia, L., and one of Argynnis Euphrosyne, 

 L., and drew attention to a number of white spots on the wings, which he stated were 

 not suffused spots as in JawtVa, but were always well defined, and in nearly all cases 

 symmetrical. A discussion then took plate as to the origin of these spots, in which 

 Messrs. South, Carrington, Adkin, Sheldon, and others took part. Mr. Adkin, ex- 

 hibited light and dark forms of Cleoceris viminalis, Fb. Mr. Cooper, Zonosoma 

 orhicular-ia, Hb., Eupithecia subfulvata, Haw., and Tephrosia biundularia, Bork., 

 bred from a female captured last June, the larva having fed up on knotgrass. Mr. 

 T. R. Billups, a rare species of Hymenoptera — Tachytes unicolor, Panz., taken at 

 Hayling Island June 7th ; the following species of Coleoptera ; the very scarce 

 Choragus Sheppardi, Xirb.,from Broadstairs ; Molorchus minimus, Scop., and Myce- 

 toporus longulus, Mann., from Bookham ; and the scarce Panagaus quadrip ustulatus , 

 Sturm. ; also two local species of Semiptera, Phylus coryli, Linn., and P. avellana 

 from Westerham, and Ledra aurita, Linn., from Broadstairs. — H. W. Baeeee and 

 W. A. Peaece, Son. Sees. 



Entomological Society of London : September 1st, 1886. — Eobeet 

 McLachlan, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Fellows : — The Eev. Professor Dickson, D.D., of 

 G-lasgow University; Mr. P. Cowell, of Liverpool (formerly subscribers); Mr. A. O. 

 Walker, of Colwyn Bay, North Wales ; and Mr. Lyddon Surrage, of Hertford 

 College, Oxford. 



The President remarked with regard to the gnats from the Kent Waterworks, 

 exhibited at the last meeting, that Professor Westwood had since informed Mr. 

 Douglas that they were only the ordinary Culex pipiens. 



Mr. Slater exhibited certain parasites found on a larva of Smerinthus tilia, 

 which Mr. Waterhouse believed to be Uropoda vegetans, a species of Acari. 



Mr. W. Warren exhibited the following Lepidoptera, viz.: — Eupithecia 

 fraxinata, c&Vi^i inEegent's Park; E.innotata{^\i\i),hrcAirom Artemisia maritima; 

 a variety of Eupithecia satyrata ; a Gelechia, caught in Wicken Fen twenty years 

 ago by Mr. Bond, and believed to be a new species ; G.fumatella (Dgl.) or celerella 

 (Stn.) from Hayling Island ; G. vilella (Zell.),bred from larvae collected on the Essex 

 coast on mallow; Lithocolletis scabiosella (Dgl.), bred from larvae found near 

 Croydon; and Catoptria parvulana (Wlk.), bred by Mr. Vine, of Brighton, from 

 Serratida tinctoria. He also exhibited larvae of Gelechia vilella. 



