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a hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Day. The following 

 exhibits were shown : — Mr. B. H. Crabtree, specimens of C. planta- 

 yinis, showing var. hospita, in which the orange colouring is replaced 

 by white. — Mr. R. Tait, Jr., Lepidoptera bred from ova and larva? : 

 Boarmia repandata, well-marked examples, bred from Welsh larvae ; 

 Aplecta advena, two specimens bred in November from forced larvae ; 

 A. australis, taken in the Isle of Wight by Dr. Dewar, of Stanley ; 

 Nyssia lapponaria, bred by Mr. A. E. Cockayne from Rannoch ova. — 

 Mr. J. Ray Hardy, specimens of Vanessa io from Grange-over- Sands, 

 fed on nettle and lettuce, showing difference in imago, — wings being 

 in some cases semi-diaphanous, the upper being of a dark purple 

 colour ; photograph of the larvae of Morpho epistrophis.— Mr. H. S. 

 Leigh, parasite of Saturnia pyri (July, 1904) ; Sphinx convolvuli, in 

 perfect condition, taken near Worsley, Sept., 1904. — Mr. G. Kearey, 

 fifteen species of Coleoptera taken on a small plot of ground near 

 Philips Park, Bradford, near Manchester. 



March 1st. — In the absence of the President and Vice-President, 

 the chair was occupied by Mr. C. F. Johnson. After the formal busi- 

 ness of the meeting, an adjournment was made to another part of the 

 Manchester Museum, when one of the members, Mr. A. E. Thomson, 

 delivered a lecture (to which the public were invited), entitled, " The 

 House Fly " (illustrated by lime-light views). This was enjoyed by an 

 exceedingly good gathering of persons, and at the close was followed 

 by discussion. — Robert J. Wigelsworth, Hon. Secretary. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March 20th, 1905, — Mr. G. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Sir George Hampson was 

 elected an honorary member of the Society. — Mr. A. H. Martineau 

 showed a specimen of Zeuzera pyrina, L., taken at light at Solihull; 

 also an entirely black specimen of Formica rufa, L., from Hay Woods. 

 — Mr. S. H. Kenrick, a fine lot of Pyralidae from New Guinea, in- 

 cluding some new and many rare species. — Mr. H. W. Ellis, a speci- 

 men of the rare beetle Platydema dytiscoides, L., from the New Forest. 

 — Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, four specimens of Ptilops nigrita, Fall., 

 a species of the Tachinidae new to the British list, which Dr. J. H. 

 Wood had found in various localities in Herefordshire. He said that 

 since receiving Dr. Wood's specimens he had seen one taken by the 

 late Rev. T. A. Marshall near Teignmouth.— Mr. H. W. Ellis, a 

 number of the late John Sang's exquisite colour drawings of insects. 

 — Mr. Gilbert Smith, a specimen of Callidiam violaceum, with two 

 tibiae and two tarsi on the left hind leg ; the supernumerary tibia left 

 the normal one in about the middle, but was traceable below that ; it 

 had normal metatarsi, thickened tarsi, and two claws, so that there 

 were three claws on that leg. He also showed the rare Longicorn 

 Mesosa nubila from the New Forest ; also a number of an ichneumon 

 found in the refuse stuff of an old tree- trunk infested by Rhagium bi- 

 fasciatum upon which it most likely lived ; they were in great numbers, 

 and all huddled together for hybernating. — Colbran J. Wainwright, 

 Hon. Sec. 



Erratum. — The notice of Prof. Packard, referred to in our last, 

 appeared, not in the ' American Naturalist,' but in the ' American 

 Journal of Science ' for March, 1905, p. 264. 



