44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



or ion with only the orbicular spots present, Noctua suhrosea from the 

 Bond collection, MelitcBci ar tends with heavily marked white wedges 

 on all the wings, &c. — Mr. W. B. Pratt, ab. coracina of Melitcea 

 athalia from W. Sussex ; and Melitaa aurina with under side of 

 hind wings having a black base and an extremely wide white 

 central band. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, a complete transitional series 

 between Heliconius ])hyllis form anacreon, and H. 2)}iyllis form 

 vcnusata from the same locahty in E. Bolivia. — Mr. T. L. Barnett, a 

 large number of species taken by him this August in Wicken Fen, 

 including Tapinostola hellmanni, Leucania straminea, Nudaria senex, 

 Herininia cribralis, Bankia argentula, Goenobia rufa, kc. ; a bred 

 specimen of j^geria andreniforviis and its pupa case ; and specimens 

 of ^3S. culkiformis, which had been somewhat common at Darenth 

 Wood. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 

 held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, October 

 17th, 1910. Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., in the chair.— This was the 

 opening meeting of the session, and was devoted to exhibits of the 

 season's work. — Mr. T. Baxter, of St. Anne's, sent for exhibition a 

 fine series of Luperina gueneei and its variety baxteri; he also con- 

 tributed a note in which he pointed out that both forms were repre- 

 sented in a perfectly fresh condition, and that the view that the var. 

 baxteri would become the typical gueneei with age must be aban- 

 doned. Mr. Baxter also sent an extraordinary aberration of Abraxas 

 grossulariata which had the costal area of the left fore wing typical, 

 the remainder, about three-fourths of the wing, being black ; the 

 right fore wing and the hind wings were typical. This fine asym- 

 metrical specimen was captured in his garden at St. Anne's. — Mr. 

 H. R. Sweeting exhibited a long series of Hydroecia crinanensis, 

 captured this year near Londonderry ; the variation appeared to be 

 on exactly parallel lines with nictitans. The identity of the species 

 was establislied by Mr. Pierce, who had an opportunity to examine 

 the genitalia while the insects were still fresh. The same member 

 further showed the following insects from Mold, North Wales, viz. : 

 Tceniocampa. gothica, including an asymmetrical example in which 

 the U mark on the left fore wing was only partly developed ; 

 T. incerta, T. stabilis, Pachnobia rubricosa, Noctua /estiva, N. 

 brunnea, Aplecta prasina, and Boarmia repandata, including an 

 example of var. nigra. — Mr. F. N. Pierce showed Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata, a short series from Wallasey, in which the variation was less 

 striking than usual. — -Mr. Wm. Mansbridge brought a series of the 

 very black Knowsley race of B. repandata var. nigra, in which the 

 submarginal pale line was almost absent ; also short series of the 

 same insect from Bude and Delamere Forest ; Boarmia gemmaria, 

 black form from North Kent ; pale forms from North Devon, and 

 Y'cii\p)erfumaria from the Cotswolds ; a long series of Aplecta nebulosa, 

 var. robsoni, var. thompsoni, and grey forms from Delamere. — Mr. 

 Prince showed a fine series of Cidaria reticulata from Windermere, 

 and a box of Oporabia filigrammaria, varying from nearly white to 

 very dark fuscous, from Derbyshire. — Mr. R. Tait, Jun., exhibited 

 the following, mostly in long series, viz. : Agrotis agatJiina, rosy form 

 from North Wales ; Lithosia coviplana, Agrotis ripcc, Epione apici- 



