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on broom. — Mr. Sich read a paper entitled, " The Spot we stand on," 

 and illustrated it with lantern slides. 



April 27 tk. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Bevins, of Ongar, 

 was elected a member. — Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited larvae 

 of Nemeophila russula in their last stage ; they were from ova laid by a 

 Cheshire female, and were feeding on dandelion. Mr. Cowham had 

 reared a brood in the autumn from spring ova. Mr. Main showed his 

 method of holding a twig with a larva or imago in position for photo- 

 graphing, by means of a compound clamp or test-tube holder and retort 

 stand, such as are used by practical chemists. He also exhibited a ball- 

 and-socket arrangement for fitting on a camera-stand to allow of incli- 

 nation of the camera in any direction. — Mr. Adkin read a paper on 

 "Belated Emergences," and exhibited various species in illustration. 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The third 

 ordinary meeting was held in the Society's rooms, Royal Institution, 

 Liverpool, on March 20th, Mr. Richard Wilding, Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — -Donations to the Library were announced from Messrs. B. H. 

 Crabtree, F.E.S. ; H. B. Score, F.R.G.S. ; Jas. Fletcher, LL.D., F.L.S., 

 and C. M. Adams, F.I.C. This meeting took the form of a micro- 

 scopical, lantern, and general exhibitional meeting, and proved to be 

 a most popular and successful innovation, the number of members and 

 their friends present being considerable, aud including several ladies. 

 In addition to the various microscopical exhibits of members, ten 

 members of the Liverpool Microscopical Society contributed greatly to 

 the success of the evening by their exhibits, and the Society is much 

 to be congratulated on securing their invaluable co-operation. The 

 first half of the meeting was devoted to the microscopes and general 

 exhibits. — Mr. J. M. Williams's slides included the suckers of Dytiscus 

 and the head of the jumping spider, Salticus tardigradus ; Mr. Garnett 

 showed the " fairy fly," Anagrus incamatus, and the Hessian fly; Mr. 

 F. N. Pierce, the chirping drum aud file of the common house-cricket ; 

 Mr. D. Whittaker, the strigil of Corixa yeoffroyi and other slides of 

 Aquatic Hemiptera ; Mr. J. E. Turner, head of plumed gnat, and 

 ichneumon flies; Mr. A. H. Dudley, the circulation of protoplasm in 

 Niiella and El odea, and a Cyclops carrying eggs ; Mr. C. M. Adams, 

 the larva, and male and female imagines of the itch-insect, Sarcojites 

 scabiei; Mr. W. T. Haydon, sections showing development of embryo 

 of Pinus sylvestris; Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, larva of Melo'e proscarabaits 

 and spiracles of Dytiscus marginalis. Among other interesting slides 

 on view were the tracheal system of silkworm; parasite of mouse, 

 showing its victim's blood in its stomach ; wing-case of tiger-beetle ; 

 transverse section of caterpillar, showing its last meal, &c. The 

 general exhibits were varied and instructive. The President, Mr. S. 

 J. Capper, sent his well-known educational collections, representing 

 all the orders of insects ; Mr. W. A. Tyerman, a series of bred Selenia 

 iilunaria, and some beautiful moths from Winburg, Orange River 

 Colony; Mr. F. R. Dixon-Nuttall, specimens of the North American 

 Longicorn Xeoclytus erythrocephalus, found seven inches below the bark 

 of an ash supposed to have grown in the St. Helens district ; Dr. W. 

 Bell, preserved larva of Noctua triangulum ; Mr. Horton, larvae of Tro- 



