1892.] 53 



iarva ; Chionohas Uhleri, Reakirt, with nearly 40 figures on the plate ; and Ch, 

 Varuna, Edwards, a species found at a comparatively low elevation, and of great 

 variability as to the spotting of the wings. Local, and all other information, is as 

 detailed as usual. 



^o(ii(ftics. 



BiKMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : December 2lst, 1891. — Rev. C. F. 

 Thornewill, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Agrotis obelisca, taken by Mr. A. J. Hodges in the 

 Isle of Wight, also a specimen of Noctua c-nigrum, with which species Mr. Hodges 

 says obelisca is often confounded on the sugar. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed Pyrellia 

 lasiophthalma from Sutton. Mr. Abbott read a paper on " A holiday collecting in 

 the Isle of Wight." He worked specially for Agrotis lunigera, with considerable 

 success, but such was the danger of collecting on the cliffs where alone they are to 

 be taken, that he advised otliers to leave it alone. 



January 11th, 1892. — Mr. W. Gr. Blatch, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed some Diptera which had been shown at a former 

 Meeting as Pterop<Bcila lamed, with the note that they had been confirmed as that 

 species by Mr. Yerrall. They had since, at his request, been again submitted to 

 iVJr. Verra]l, and he names them as Toxoneura tnuliebris, and remarks that P. lamed 

 is not yet recorded satisfactorily as British. A letter was read from Mr. C. J. Fryer 

 recording Stenamma Westwoodi from Warwick. Mr. C. J. Wainwright read a paper 

 on " A holiday spent in North Cornwall last year," in wliich he described the results 

 of a fortnight's collecting on the North Coast, during which he took Plusia orichal- 

 cea, and many good Diptera. The paper was illustrated by photographs and the 

 collections made. — Cglbran J. Wainweight, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The Annual Meeting 

 was held on Monday, January 11th, 1892, in the Class Room of the Free Public 

 Library, William Brown Street. The President, Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 occupied the Chair, and in the course of his Annual Address referred to the ento- 

 mological records of the past year, and also gave a series of most interesting per- 

 sonal reminiscences of his experience as an entomologist for over fifty years. This 

 began at an Epping School, where Henry Doubleday did so much work, and helped 

 the schoolboys by naming and describing their captures. The President spoke of 

 the science since his first acquaintance with it, and the improvements in the mode 

 of capturing and preserving specimens. He referred also to the inauguration of the 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Society, the first Meeting of which was held at his house 

 at Huyton in March, 1877- The President further enumerated the principal 

 achievements of the past session. In conclusion, he remarked that it was to the 

 younger Members that they now looked for the success of the Society. Mr. Capper was 

 re-elected President, and the Rev. H. H. Higgins, Yice-President ; Mr. F. N. Pierce, 

 Hon. Secretary, and Mr. C. H. Walker, Hon. Librarian, were re-elected ; the New 

 Members of the Committee being Mr. Greorge Harker and Mr. C. E. Stott. During 



F 



