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Trichiiira crataef/i with one antenna <? ; also an Epincphele 

 jiirtiiia (jantliina) from Box Hill with large pallid spaces, and a 

 bred series of Bluidophaea siiarella from Eastbourne, Mr. South, on 

 behalf cf Mr. Waller. Lrhng Mantids. — A living "stick" insect bred 

 from the ovum shown in the spring, Mr. Main. Gillmeria pallidac- 

 TYLA. — Bred (jrilbneria palliilacti/la from Byfleet, Mr. Sich. 



City of London Entomological Society. — October 6th, 1908. — 

 Exhibits. — Cajiptogramma bilineata from Margate, July 1908, including 

 a specimen with broad black band on fore wings, Mr. J. A. Clark. 

 Sterrha sacraria. — A specimen taken by himself in South Devon, 

 September 1908, Mr. H. M. Edelsten. — Grammesia trigrammica ab. 

 BiLiNEA. — Six specimens taken June, 1908, in Kent, on two evenings on 

 sugar-patches close to one another, while the rest of a somewhat 

 extensive "round" yielded no examples of this form, Mr. J. H. Heath. 

 Agriades corydon ab. obsoleta from Dover 1908. Malacosoma 

 cASTRENSis, including unicolorous males and yellow females ab. obsoleta, 

 Tutt, Mr. L. W. Newman. Eupithecia expallidata. — A large bred speci- 

 men of a dark strongly-marked aberration from Tunbridge Wells. 

 NoNAGRiA sPARGANii. — A strongly black-marked aberration from East 

 Kent. Also, on behalf of Mr. Taylor, an Agrotid (? sp., apparently 

 an aberration of Agrotis segetum 2 ) , Avith a dark cloud round the pale 

 stigmata, taken October 8rd, 1907, Mr. L. B. Prout. Cemiostoma 

 laburnella. — Cocoons of, showing the strength of the silk in bending 

 the materials upon which the cocoons were spun. Nepticula acetosa. 

 — Mines containing larvfe in leaves of Buniex acetosa from Richmond, 

 Mr. A. Sich. Leucania vitellina, a series taken on the Dorset Coast, 

 August 15th-30th, 1908, Mr. P. H. Tautz. Adkinia graphodactyla. — 

 Ova, pupiB, imagines, and ichneumon, and the food-plant Gentiana 

 pneuiiionanthe, Mr. A. J. Wilsdon. October 20th, 1908. — Exhibits. — 

 EucHLOE cardamines. — PupsB attached to twigs and cards of various 

 shades, and showing distinct gradation of depths of colour, correspond- 

 ing to the lightness or darkness of the substance on which the larvffi 

 had pupated, Mr. A. Bacot. — Tanagra atrata var. pyreniaca bred from 

 Gavarnie ova, Dr. T. A. Chapman. Ova of Leucania brevilinea 

 laid within the sheathing-leaf of dead reed stem, Norfolk, July 1908, 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten. Lycaena arion pupa. — A dead specimen found by 

 Mr. Percy Richards under stones near Bude, Mr. W. J. Kaye. 

 Hepialus HUMULi var. HETHLANDicA from the Shetlauds, showiug Consider- 

 able variation. Anarta melanopa from the same locality, and aberra- 

 tions of RuMiciA PHLiEAs froHi Bexley, October 1908, including 

 a specimen with greyish-black underside, and a female with the usual 

 band on hindwings obsolete, Mr. L. W. Newman. Stauropus fagi. — A 

 series bred from ova from Chalford Road, including a dark female, 

 Mr. P. H. Tautz. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — October 19th, 

 1908. — Captures, etc., of 1908. — A long series of Ayrotis agathina, 

 bred from Welsh larvte, and noted that the red form occurred much 

 more frequently among wild imagines than among moths bred at 

 Manchester from larvje taken on the same ground earlier in the 

 year. From the Isle of Wight, fine series of the following: A(jroth 

 Lunvjera, A. cinerca, Acidalia hinniliata, Setina irrorella : from Pendine, 

 South V^ sdes,Boariniarepandata var. conversaria, Calliniorpha doiiiiniila; 



