74 : March, 



striking forms of Anthrocera taken or bred V>y hiui this year, inohiding dwarf 

 A. trifolii and curiously marked examples of A. hijppocrepidis and A. filipendulx. 

 Mr. Barnett, dark forms of Cheimatohia boreata and of Oporabia dilutata from 

 West Wickham and Wimbledon respectively. Mr. Robert Adkin, series of 

 Agriades coridon ? s from Eastbourne, showing eight or nine lines of variation ; 

 he also showed a bred series of Polia chi from Hnddersfield ova. Mr. Sich i-ead 

 a paper entitled "Notes on Gelechia herinannella." 



Thxirsday, Jcmiiary IMh, 1910. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhiliited, on behalf of Mr. More, of Barnet, specimens of 

 Coleoptera, _ &c., mounted on transparent gelatine cards allowing of ready 

 examination. Mr. Adkin, a series of Selenia bilunaria bred from Eastbourne 

 ova, and read notes on the brood. Mr. Lucas, photogi-aphs of Hybernia 

 defoliaria taken on January 4th and 8tli. Mr. Turner, on behalf of Rev. 

 C. R. N. Burrows, series of the genus Hijdrsecia, H. nictitans, H. pahulis, 

 H. lucens, and H. crinanensis, together with microscopical preparations of the 

 genitalia and photographs of the same. Mr. Tonge, a bred series of Cidaria 

 miata from Chichester, a bred pair of Catocala fraxini from ova laid by a ? 

 taken at Horsham, and two species of Hymenoptera bred from a bamboo cane 

 standing in a garden at Red Hill. Mr. Newman, living specunens of Pyrameis 

 atalanta, which he was endeavouring to hibernate. Mr. A. H. Hemming, an 

 under-side aberration of Polyommatus icarus taken at Red Hill, in which the 

 submedian spots were closely clustered around the discoidals, while on the hind- 

 wings some spots were obsolete. Mr. Enock gave a lantern demonstration of the 

 life-histories of Gonepteryx rhamni, Dicranura vinula, and Urapteryx sambucana, 

 and many illustrations of the marvellous and delicate Hymenopterous egg- 

 parasites, Mymaridm. — Hy. J. Turner, Ho7i. Secretary. 



DIPTERA TAKEN AT MORTEHOE, NORTH DEVON. 

 BY G. B. LONGSTAFF, M.A., M.D. 



This list is obviously, the woi-k of a beginner. Those groups of 

 flies whose habits of life foi'ce them upon the notice of a Lepidopterist 

 have naturally enough been the first to attract his attention ; but 

 Mr. Gr. H. Verrall's grand volume on the Syrphidie has contributed not 

 a little to the attractions of that family. 



My best thanks are due to Mr. Verrall, to Mr. E. E. Austen and 

 his assistant Mr. Hills, as well as to Mr. A. H. Hanim, for their patient 

 assistance in naming specimens. 



Mtcetophilid^. 



Sciara thomae, L. — One at Borough, July 29th ; another Twitcheu, on 

 Angelica, August 26th, 1909, 



