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ing itself in Britain. Living larva? of a species of Tclephorus from 

 Fallowfield, Manchester. Living larvte of a Simulium taken from a 

 brook at Gatley, Cheshire, in January, 1913. Living larvai of 

 Phalacrocera replicata (an aquatic Tipulid) found in moss at Prinscall, 

 Chorley, Lancashire. — Mr. J. H. Watson showed Attacus lorquini 

 from the Philippines, and Goscinocera herciUes from N. AustraUa ; 

 also preserved larvae living under protective cases of Gicinnus 

 despectris and Oiketicus kirhyi, from Buenos Ayres, early in 

 1912. — Mr. A. W. Boyd exhibited sundry Micro-lepidoptera from 

 Piatt Fields and Boggart Hole Clough, two of the Manchester 

 public parks, which included Scardia cloacella, Tinea fulvimitrella, 

 Dasycera sulplmrella, Stigmonota regiana, Laverna atra, Hedya 

 neglectana, Prays curtisellus, Argyresthia pygmceella, &c. He also 

 showed short series of Mesoleuca bicolorata, LomaspiUs marginata, 

 Asthena luteata, Euchoica obliterata, Nola cucullatella and Cilix 

 glaucata from various Cheshire localities, and Perizoma hlandiata 

 from Cumberland. — Mr. A. E. Salmon showed a female Sirex gigas 

 from a Barrow works, and a piece of lead (7 mm. thick) through 

 which it had made its way ; previous to boring through the lead it 

 had bored through a board. He quoted various records of this 

 insect's boring powers. — A. W. Boyd, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 

 held at the Koyal Institution, Colquit St., Liverpool, March 17th, 

 1913, Mr. F. N. Pierce, President, in the chair. — Professor 

 Eobert Newstead, F.E.S., M.Sc, of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, delivered a lecture entitled " The Bionomics 

 and Morphology of some Bloodsucking Flies." Mr. Newstead dealt 

 in his usual lucid and thorough manner with the life cycle of 

 representative species of the genus Glossina, or tsetse flies, which 

 convey sleeping sickness to man and " ngana" to cattle, the species 

 incriminated being Glossina morsitans and G. palpalis. The lecturer 

 also described Stomoxys calcitrans, a world-wide species and a 

 common stable fly in Great Britain, which is strongly suspected 

 of being concerned in the transmission of trypanosomes. A very 

 interesting life-history was that of Simulium, whose larvae live in 

 rapidly running, shallow streams ; and, lastly, the minute midge, 

 Phlebotomus papatasii, Fam. Psychodida?, found commonly on the 

 Mediterranean littoral and elsewhere in subtropical and tropical 

 countries, which carries the " three days " fever from sick to 

 healthy persons, was described. Mr. Newstead, having visited many 

 different parts of the world to investigate the life cycles of these 

 insects, and having himself discovered many important facts concern- 

 ing them, he was able to give a vividness to his remarks that no 

 mere book knowledge could have done. The lecture was illustrated 

 by blackboard drawings and microscope preparations showing the 

 structure and anatomical details of the insects mentioned above. 

 Further exhibits by Mr. Newstead were two specimens of Glossina 

 sever ini, Newst., a new species recently recognized from the Congo 

 Free State, and a specimen of the very rare G. fuscipleuris, Austen ; 

 also a wasp, Bembex forcipata, that had only recently been found to 

 store its larva cells with the tsetse fly ; this exhibit comprised nine 



