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Buckley showed a very long and varied series of Acidalia contiguaria 

 from North Wales ova, comprising three broods. — ^Mr. A. E. Salmon 

 remarked that there had been great difficulties in breeding Saturnidae 

 this year, e. g., a brood of larvae was divided up and each lot put into 

 a separate room and fed on food from different trees ; all died on the 

 same night. He also stated that there had been a second brood of 

 Nonagria typhcB this year. 



December Qth. — -Mr. W. Buckley, President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 A. E. Wright gave a paper on the " Macro-Lepidoptera of the 

 Burnley District " (with the exception of the Noctuie). His list was 

 the outcome of many years of collecting, and possibly its most 

 remarkable feature was the absence of many common insects. The 

 most noticeable feature of the insects as a whole was the general 

 tendency to melanism. Fine black forms of Ematurga atomaria (both 

 male and female), Gonodontis bidcntata, Entephria ccBsiata, &c., were 

 shown. — Mr. J. H. Watson showed an example of Saturnia pyretorum 

 sub. sp. p)earsoni, a new subspecies from Hainan. — Mr. B. H. Crab- 

 tree exhibited empty pupee and living larvas of Litperina gueneei from 

 the Lancashire coast. — Mr. G. Bradburn showed, among others, a 

 variety of Saturnia ptavonia. from Lindow Common, Cheshire, and a 

 red form of Smerintkus populi from Brooklands, Cheshire. He also 

 had two specimens of Porthesia similis taken at Brooklands on 

 October 18th and 20th. — Mr. C. F. Johnson showed a series of 

 Acidalia contiguaria (third and fourth broods) ; a long series of 

 OporahiafiUgrammaria and series of Acidalia imitaria and Hygrochroa 

 syringaria (second brood). — Mr. E. Tait, Jr., showed a bred series of 

 Agrotis agathina from North Wales.— A. W. Boyd, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



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Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. In vol. v. No. 1, 

 April 20th, 1911, Liverpool, the papers of interest to Entomologists 

 are : — (1) Non-ulcerating Oriental Sore : the cultural character- 

 istics of the parasite as compared with a new similar parasite 

 in Erthesina fullo (Thunb.), a pentatomid bug, by Capt. R. 

 Markham Carter, I.M.S. ; (2) A very short note on Glossina 

 grossa, &c., by R. Newstead, M.Sc, A.L.S., &c. 



In vol. V. No. 2, August 1st, 1911, there are also two papers: 

 — (1) The Papataci Flies (Phlebotomus) of the Maltese Islands, 

 by R. Newstead, pp. 139-181, a full and well illustrated paper ; 

 (2) Some new species of African Mosquitos (Culicidce), by R. 

 Newstead and H. F. Carter. 



Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro. The 

 following papers may be of interest to Entomologists. (1) 

 Erepliopsis auricincta, a Tabanid of the subfamily Pangonina3 

 (April, 1909) ; (2) Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Dipteren (April, 

 1909) ; Beitrag zur Kenntniss der brasilianischen Simuliumarten 

 (August, 1909) ; (4) Ueber eine neue Trypanosomiasis des Men- 

 schen, in connection with a bug, GonorhintLS megistus (August, 

 1909) ; Cytologische studien ueber " Adelea hartmanni," ein 

 neues Coccidinmaus dem Darme von Dysdercus ruficolUs L. 



