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Mr. E. Step, a large gall on Populus alba from France, with vsmall 

 Diptera [Cecidoinyia sp.) which bad emerged, and much smaller 

 Hymenopterons innuilines. He also showed larvae of the lichen- 

 feeding Geometec. Cleora lichenaria. 



Mr. H. Moore, Lepidoptera from N. Zealand, including Vanenm 

 <lo)ierilla, Chri/sniili(niiifi salnstiiis, etc. 



Mr. R. Adkin, exhibited the "Brown-tail" and " Gold-tail" moths, 

 and discussed their names, pointing out that the former should be 

 called Ni/iiwia pliacoirlwea and the latter Leucoma cliri/xorrhaea. 



Mr. Staniland, the beetle Melanoiihila acioiiinata, from Suffolk. 



Mr. Blair, for Mr. Dods, the " stick-insect," Caiaiisiiis morosua, of 

 an unusual red-brown colour. 



Mr. Turner, the Brazilian Longicorn Phoenicocenis (lejeani, which 

 has the antennae furnished with extraordinary long lamellae. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 



Januanj IQth, 1922. — New Member. — Mr. H. 0. Wells, Inchiquin, 

 Lynwood Avenue, Epsom, was elected a member of the Society. 



The Soiree. — Mr. Wm. Mansbridge reported favourable progress 

 of the Joint Committee of Scientific Societies in Liverpool towards 

 arranging an Associated Soiree, and the general closer co-operation of 

 the Scientific Societies in the district. 



Report of Recorder of Lepidoptera for 1920 and 1921. — Mr. 

 Mansbridge then read his report as Recorder of Lepidoptera for the 

 years 1920 and 1921. He mentioned that besides many interesting 

 records, five species had been added to the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 list in 1920, and five in 1921. These included one species new to 

 Britain, vi::., Blastobasi!< liijnea, Wlsm., and its variety rtr/».s^'^Zrt, Wlsm. 

 Most of the additions had been made by the members who study 

 Micro-lepidoptera, and this was considered to be a very encouraging 

 feature of the Society's work. 



Exhibits. — Mr. H. B. Prince exhibited a box of insects which he 

 had bred from a number of larvae caught in paper traps at Hightown, 

 they included Xoctiia triant/nhiin, N. (VttrajMzium, N.baja, Plira(iniatobia 

 fidij/inosa, Leiicauia lit/ianii/ri'a, Taeuidcanipa f/othiea, and Tripliaoia 

 coinen. This is the first record of N. ditrapezhtm in Lancashire. 



Febnianj 20th. — Flashlight Photography and Nature. — The 

 Society met to hear a lecture by Mr. Oswald J. Wilkinson of Lymm 

 upon the above subject. Mr. Wilkinson has made a special study of 

 Nature Photography at night by means of flashlight, and last year his 

 series of lantern slides of insect life gained the medal of the Royal 

 Photographic Society. In his entertaining address, the lecturer 

 showed how the student who had little daytime leisure for camera 

 work could obtain better results at night by mean of flashlight, and at 

 the same time gather a series of records of nocturnal habits of insects 

 and other creatures of great value to science. There is a vast field of 

 research in this direction, for as yet only the frin<i;e has been touched, 

 and the speed of the exposure, about 1 -8,000th of a second, makes the 

 operator almost independent of the movements of the subject. The 

 slides showing the change of the caterpillar of the "Painted Lady" 



