174 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



March IWi, 1913.— Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair.— Mr. A. E. Gibbs, of St. Albans, Mr. Geo. Brooks and Mr. 

 Gilbert Storey, of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), were elected 

 members. — Mr. Tonge exhibited living larvae of Epimda lichenea and 

 of Aplecta occulta. — Mr. Colthrup, some excellent photographs of 

 well-known collecting localities, and of the resting positions of 

 various species of the genera Tephrosia and Boarmia showing pro- 

 tective resemblance. — Mr. C. B. Williams, larvae of the Snakefiy, 

 Bapliidia notata, which has occurred not uncommonly in pine 

 stumps at Oxshott. It fed readily on aphides. — Mr. Piatt Barrett, 

 specimens of the true Thera variata from the New Forest, where the 

 larvae occurred on spruce. — Mr. Gough, a blackbird's egg having the 

 markings massed at the larger end. — Mr. Brooks, the larva of 

 Geotrupes stereorarms found under a rubbish heap. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, 

 the Satyrids and Hesperids taken by him in his trip to the Balkans 

 in 1912, and contributed notes on the occurrence and variation of the 

 various species. — Mr. E. Adkin, a series of Tinea pallescentella, and 

 read a short paper on its history as a British species, and discussed 

 his experience in rearing it. 



March 27th.— The President in the chair.— Mr. B. H. Smith gave 

 two specimens of Phryxus livornica to the Society's collection.— Mr. 

 R, Adkin exhibited several specimens of Crymodes exulis from Shet- 

 land and from Inverness to show the characteristics of the two 

 races. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a number of Nymphalids, especially of the 

 genera Argynnis and MelUcea, taken by him in the Balkans in the 

 summer of 1912, including Dryas pandora, Argynnis adippe ab. 

 cleodoxa, Issoria lathonia, B. hecate, Chrysophanus alcipihron, Melitcea 

 trivia, M. athalia var. mehadensis and ab. navarina, Lihythea celtis, 

 Neptis lucilla, Polygonia egea, &c. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, a number of 

 species of Sicilian butterflies, including Melanargia japygia, M. 

 pherusa and var. plesaura, M. galathea and vars. lucasi, procida and 

 syracusana, and discussed other allied forms ; he also showed a series 

 of Eicchloii damone. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited the pupa of Lyccena 

 anon found by Mr. Percy Kichards in 1908 in an ant's nest in a 

 frail cocoon. — Mr. F. "W. Frohawk a form of Euchlo'e cardamines, in 

 which the diseoidal spots of the fore wings were consideraly within 

 the orange apical area. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — February 6th, 

 1913. — The evening was occupied by a number of small exhibits. 

 — Mr. B. H. Crabtree showed a melanic form of Acidalia virgu- 

 laria from London, and also the type ; he showed also three 

 specimens of Lyccena astrarche var. artaxerxes from Aberdeen, 

 which were largely without the white spots underneath. — Mr. E. 

 Tait, Jun., showed a long series of Agrotis ashivorthii — the pick of a 

 number of years' collecting. He mentioned that on January 4th, at 

 Penmaenmawr, he found two larvae of Agrotis strigula, and traces 

 showing that they had recently been feeding ; frozen snow was on 

 the ground. — Mr. W. Mansbridge exhibited male, female, and case of 

 Epichnopteryx pulla from Penmaenmawr and Delamere. — Mr. J. 

 Mangan showed living newly-emerged examples of Ptinus tectus 

 from almonds. He remarked that this injurious beetle was establish- 



