1916] 335 



of Aplecta 7iehxdosa from a pairing of v. rohsoni; of 350 reared, 50 °/o were 

 rohsoni, 24 °/<, thompsoni, and 2(3 °l^ tj'pical ; also a long series of Boarmia repan- 

 data, the result of crossing a J conversaria with $ type — most of the brood 

 were reared, every specimen was coiiversaria and everyone a $ . Mr. Newman 

 recorded the fact of the ah. varleyata of Abraxas grossulariata disappearing 

 from a strain which contained it and reappearing after five years. Mr. P. A, 

 Buxton communicated from his brother in the Dardanelles an instance of a bird, 

 a young butcher-bird, attacking and captviring a large hawk-moth. Mr. Morford, 

 a nimiber of specimens of Setiiia irrorella, with S. aurita and its aberration 

 ramosa sent to him by Prof. Morel, N. Italy. Mr. Ashby, a long series of the 

 rare Buprestid beetle, Agrilus viridis, from the New Forest. Mr. E.. Adkin, 

 specimens of Anthrocera filipendulae reared from Otford pupae, including an 

 aberration with only five spots on the fore-wings, upper-side. Mr. Newman 

 recorded a number of similar specimens from near Brighton. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Secfetary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, Oct. 6th, 1915. — The 

 Hon. N. C. EoTHSCHiLD, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Arthur Gibson, Entomological Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa, Canada, and Harold Beck Williams, 82, Filey Avenue, Stoke Newing- 

 ton, N., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Captain Purefoy exhibited young larvae of Lycaena arion, with an accom- 

 panying ant. Dr. Chapman, drawings of various Lycaenid larvae with the 

 Epidiascope. The Hon. N. C. Eothschild, four specimens of Chrysophanus 

 dispar, taken this year m Holland, apparently identical with the British race. 

 Dr. Chapman, a specimen of a Dipteron, a species of Nemotelus (Fam. Stratio- 

 myidae), which was quite common where the cases of Luffia ferchaultella occurred, 

 the cases of Luffia being imitated by a spider (Cyclosa ronica). This Dipteron 

 at rest also closely imitated the Luffia cases. Mr. G. Meade-Waldo, a new 

 aberration of Euxoa corticea, Hb., taken in his light-trap at Hever, Kent, in 

 July ; the specimen, known as obsoleta, showing only the faintest trace of 

 the orbicular and reniform stigmata. Mr. L. W. Newman, a very long and 

 varied series of Aplecta nehulosa and its varieties ab. rohsoni and thompsoni and 

 intermediate forms. A pairing was obtained from male and female, both of 

 the rohsoni form, and the percentages were as follows :—ro6soni (including 

 intermediates), 50 °j^ ; typical specimens, 26 ^/^ ; thompsoni, 24 °l^. Also a series 

 of Boarmia repandata var. conversaria, from a pairing obtained between a 

 typical light Hunts $ crossed with a conversaria ^ ; every specimen being var. 

 conversaria, and every one a $ . Mr. E. E. Green, specimens and drawings of 

 a new British Coccid, discovered at Camberley upon grasses in ixncultivated 

 meadows referable to Signoret's genus Fairmairea (now known as Farafair- 

 mairea. The Rev. F. D. Morice, a gynandroraorphous Hylaeus {Prosopis) brevi- 

 cornis ; a ^ Halictus laevigatus, having onh' two cubital cells in each upper 

 wing, as in Du/ourea, Halictoides, etc.; also a larva (in spirit) and numerous 



