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ashes will be placed in the Ent. Nat. Museum on the cabinet of Staphylinidse, 

 in accordance with a wisli expressed by the deceased shortly before his 

 death.— K. J. 



Societies. 



Lancashire and Che.shire Entomological Society. — The first Meeting 

 of the Session 1909 — 1910 was held at the Eoyal Institution, Liverpool, on 

 Monday, October 18th, 1909, Mr. C. E. Stott, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



This being the Annual Exhibition Meeting there was a very good atten- 

 dance, including" a number of visitors. 



Mr. B. H. Crabtree, Manchester, exhibited Le-pidoptera, including the 



following species : — Tseniocampa incerta, T. miniosa, T. munda, and Pachnobia 



leuco(jrapha, from Lakeside, Windermere ; a varied series of Odonestis potatoria 



from Berkshire ; a series of Arctia caia, showing the usual range of minor 



variation, Vanessa urticae aj^proaching var. ichnusa, and Endromis I'ersicolor 



from Aviemore ; Dianthoecia cai-pophaga, pale forms from Brighton; Acronycta 



aceris from Sandown, Isle of Wiglit; Ciwullia asteris from the London district, 



and PJiorodesma smaragdaria from Essex. Major Woodforde, of Market Drayton, 



Zonosoma pendularia var. subroseata, and a new variety of the same species like 



subroseata, but with the pink area ochreous, which he had bred this year for 



the first time. Mr. George Arnold, a number of species of Hymenoptera, 



among them being Crabro aphidum and Formicoxenus nitidulus, the latter out 



of nests of F. rufa from the New Forest. Mr. F. N. Pierce, on behalf of 



Mr. Baxter, of St. Anne's, the Luperina allied to L. testacea, and supposed to be 



L. niclcerlU* This species, only two specimens of which have been previously 



taken in Britain, both by Mr. Baxter at St. Anne's, has occurred again tliis yeai', 



about a dozen specimens having been cajitured. Mr. Pierce also exhibited 



microscopic slides of the genitalia, sliowing the characters he relied upon for 



differentiating the new moth from L. testacea ; the same Member also had Abraxas 



grossulariata var. fiavofasciata from Wallasey ; Orgyia gonostigma and Lycsena 



argiolus from Essex ; Tryphsena comes from Isle of Eigg, and other local species. 



Mr. W. Mansbridge, a long series of Boarmia repandata var. nigra from 



Knowsley ; Melitsea aurinia from Barmouth, and a series of Eupithecia valeri- 



anata from Delamere Forest, tliis being the first record for Chesliire. Mr. C. E. 



Raven, a box of Lepidoptera from Rye, Kent, including a v;u'ied series of 



Mesotype virgata, Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoni from Delamere, and Gnophos 



obscurata var. fasciata from Folkestone. Dr. Tinne, a box of Ichneumonidse. 



Mr. H. S. Leigh, of Mancliester, a box of Tachinidae, and contributed notes on 



the exhibit. Mr. Robert Tait, junr., two drawers of Lepidoptera, the result of 



the season's work, which included Aplecta nebulosa var. robsoni from Delamere ; 



Polia chi var. olivacea from Huddersfield ; Agrotis agathina from North Wales . 



A. asliworthii, very light and very dai'k forms, from North Wales; Cucullia 



verbasci, bred from larva? found in 1907 ; Gymatophora ridens from New Forest 



larvae ; Exipithecia pumilata from North Wales ; and various species from the 



South of England, among them Moma orion from Abbott's Wood.— H. R. 



Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Secretaries. 



' This iunect lia.s since been determined as a form of Luperina gueneti, Dbl., and hiis been 

 named by Mr. South as var. baxteri (Entom., December, 1909). — G. T. P. 



