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Birmingham Entomological Society: October I6t7i, 1905.— Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the Chair. 



Reference was made to the death of Mr. J. W. Douglas, who was one of the 

 Honorary Members of the Society, and had been so since its commencement. 



Mr. W. Harrison showed Pheosia tremuJa, CI. {dict^.a, Esp.), from Selb; Oak, 

 which he tliought was a new locab'ty for it, also a series of Nonagria typhx, Thnb., 

 from Sandwell Mill Pond, and other local insects. Mr. G. H. Kenrick, a small 

 collection of butterflies made in Mexico during a recent hurried visit to that 

 country ; he remarked that the first three butterflies he saw on leaving the city of 

 Mexico to collect were Pyrameis atalanta, L., P. cardui, L., and Vanessa antiopa, 

 L. Mr. N. S. Searle, various Lepidoptera from Norfolk, Cirrhcedia xerampelina, 

 Hb., and ArsUoncJie venosa, Blch., from Feltwell Fen, and Leucania ohsoleta, Hb., 

 from Denner. Mr. J. T. Fountain, some larvfe which he believed to be Apamea 

 unanimis, Tr. ; they were found in abundance on the Stratford Canal, near Yardley, 

 living in tubes turned up out of the leaves of a sedge-like grass. 



November 28th, 1905.— The President in the Chair. 



Eev. F. D. Morice exhibited the whole of his collection of British and Palae- 

 arctic Chrysididpe ; the British species filled one box, and comprised a nearly 

 complete set of those known to occur in this country, including such rarities as 

 Hedychridiuni coriaceum, Dahlb., of which five specimens were shown, probably 

 all that have been taken in this country ; the Palaearctic series filled six boxes, 

 and were a wonderfully rich and complete lot. Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a 

 very fine collection of Lepidoptera received from New Guinea, and also by means 

 of a lantern a number of slides illustrating the country in which the specimens 

 were taken.— Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Secretary. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : The second ordinary 

 meeting of the Winter Session was held in the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on 

 Monday, November 20th, 1905, the Vice-President, Mr. Richard Wilding, in the 

 Chair. Communications were read from Miss Hannah Johnson and Mr .C. W. Dale. 

 Eleven new Members were elected, and seventeen candidates for membership were 

 proposed. Lantern demonstrations were given by Messrs. Oscar Whittaker and 

 Oulton Harrison. Mr. Whittaker's fine series of Micro-slides, specially prepared 

 by himself, dealt with the Orders Ooleoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera, Amongst 

 the subjects shown were excellent preparations of the antennae of Hydrophilus 

 piceus, Acilius sulcatus and Melolnntha vulgaris; maxillary palpi o( Acilius sulcaius 

 and Creophilus maxillosus ; antenna, tongue, tarsus of fore-leg, &c., of the Hover-fly, 

 Eristalis tenax ; head of the common gnat, Culex pipiens, showing the beautifully 

 feathered antennae of the male ; parasites, of different ages, from the peacock ; a 

 series of slides of Coriota geoffroyi ; fore-leg of C. pneusta ; elytra of C. sahlhergi 

 and Notonecta glauca ; antennae of C. geoffroyi and N. glauca arranged for com- 

 parison, &c. Much information of an interesting and instructive character was 

 imparted during the exhibition. Mr. Oulton Harrison's demonstration consisted of 



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