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December 7th, 1891.— Mr. R. C. Bradley in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed a box of Lepidoptera taken during the year at 

 Sutton. Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed Asteroscopus Sphinx {cassinea) from Han- 

 bury Park, and CaJymnia affinis from Arley. Mr. E. C. Tye showed a box full of 

 captures made this year, including Choerocampa porcellus from Sutton, Lithosia 

 mesomella from Wyre Forest, Noctua glareosa, Sutton, &c. Mr. P. W. Abbott 

 showed a box full of this year's captures, including Phibalapteryx lignata, Sutton, 

 Xociua Dahlii, Sutton, &c. Mr. Gr. T. Baker showed four boxes full of Scotch 

 insects, collected at various times in the Shetlands and Hebrides, at Rannoch and 

 Forres, by Salvage. — Colbran J. Wainwright, IIo)i. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: December \4ih, 1891. — 

 The President, Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Willoughby Gardner read a paper, entitled, " A preliminary list of the 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire, with notes on the habits of the 

 genera." The writer acknowledged the valuable assistance of the following local 

 workers, from whose notes, together with his own, he was enabled to compile his 

 paper, viz. : Miss E. C. Tonilin, Mr. J. T. Green, the Rev. H. H. Higgins, Mr. J, 

 R. Hardy, Mr. R. Newstead, F.E.S., and the late Mr. B. Cooke. The paper included 

 a list of 161 species hitherto recorded in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, 

 giving full particulars of localities, &e. — this out of 373 species at present described 

 as indigenous to Great Britain. The President exhibited a type collection of Hy- 

 menoptera. Miss Tomlin, of Chester, a collection of Hymenoptera, and specimens 

 of Hylastes opacus, Er., Trypodendron domesticum, L., and Myetophila piniperda, 

 L. Mr. Newstead, nests and specimens of Bombus pratorum, Megachile circumcincta, 

 Andrena nigrocenea, Colletes cunicularia ; genitalia and leg of Crabro palmipes. 

 Mr. Stott, a specimen of Chcerocampa celerio, on behalf of Mr. H. S. Clark, of 

 Douglas, where it was captured this summer. Dr. Ellis, a collection of Coleoptera 

 made in the Spanish Pyrenees. The Library and Museums Committee, nests and 

 specimens of British and Foreign Hymenoptera, and by Mr. J. T. Green, a collection 

 of Hymenoptera. — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : December 2nd, 1891. — The Right 

 Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry A. Hill, of 132, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, IST.W. ; Mr. Frank 

 Nelson Pierce, of 143, Smithdown Lane, Liverpool ; and Mr. Carleton F. Tufnell, of 

 Greenlands, Border Crescent, Sydenham, S.E. ; were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited and commented on a number of photographs of various 

 species of Lucanidcs belonging to Mons. Rene Oberthlii'. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a number of specimens of local forms and 

 varieties of Lepidoptera, taken by Mr. Percy Russ, near Sligo, including Pieris napi, 

 \a,T. Jiee^v bryonies ; yinthochar is cardamines (male), with the orange blotch edged 

 with yellow, and yellowish forms of the female of the same species ; very blue forms 

 of Polyommatus AJsus ; males of P. Alexis, with the hind margin of the under- 

 wings spotted with black, and very handsome forms of the female ; also varied series 



