216 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June 8th, 1905. — Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Kaye exhibited a bred series of Zonosoma pendularia, shewing con- 

 siderable variation, with pupa- cases in sitti on the leaves, and referred 

 to the variable position of the girth. — Mr. West (Greenwich), examples 

 of the rarely met with Coccinella distincta, which he had taken at 

 Darenth Wood, together with Mordeliestina abdominalis, a coleopteron 

 parasitic in bees' nests. — Mr. Sich, the exceedingly small ovum of 

 Lithocolletis quercifoliella. — Mr. Main, the tracheal tubes of the silk- 

 worm, which had been dissected out by means of a solution of potash. 

 He also shewed a case of insects from West Africa. — Mr. Step, a 

 photograph of the party who attended the Field Meeting at Seal Chart 

 on May 27th. 



June 22nd. — Mr. Alfred Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Piayward exhibited a larva of Thecla w-album spun up for pupation, 

 and also a pupa, and shewed the remarkable mimetic resemblance to a 

 crumpled, shrivelled leaf. — ■ Mr. Turner, a long series of Colius eury- 

 tkeme vars., including var. eriphyle and var. heewaydin? sent to him by 

 Mr. A. J. Croker, from Assiniboia, and read a short paper on the spe- 

 cies and its allies. He also shewed C. philodice, C. palamo, C. erate, 

 ('. hyale, 0. edusa, C. electra, C. phicomene, and Meganostoma casonia. — 

 Mr. Edwards, a number of species of Colias. — Mr. Stonell, (1) a 

 specimen of Euchelia jacobcetc from Oxshott, with the apical, hind 

 marginal, and costal streaks united ; (2) a very pale Amorpha populi ; 

 (3) Angerona prunaria, females with male coloration; (4) Boarmia 

 abietaria var. sericearia ; (5) Acidalia humiliata from the Isle of Wight; 

 (6) larvas of Nyssia lapponaria from Kannoch ; and (7) larvae of Apatura 

 iris from North Hants. — Dr. Chapman, larvae of Arctia villica from ova 

 laid by a female captured in April at Taorina, in Sicily ; and also 

 imagines of Graellsia isabellm bred from larvas taken at Bronchales, 

 together with ova laid by them. — Mr. Adkin gave a short account of 

 the Annual Congress of the S.E. Union of Scientific Societies held at 

 Keigate, June 6th to 10th. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — May 15th, 1905. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. A. H. Martineau exhibited 

 a rare sawfiy (Schizocera furcata, female), taken by Mr. C. J. Wain- 

 wright in Wyre Forest on May 26th, 1890. It had been named for 

 him by Bev. F. D. Morice, who told him that only two specimens had 

 previously been known from the British Isles. He also shewed a 

 specimen of Tenthredo livida, male, which had only one antenna with 

 the normal white tip to it, the other being quite black. He also 

 shewed various exotic Aculeates, &c. — Mr. J. T. Fountain shewed a 

 series of Biston hirtaria, CI., bred from ova received from Yorkshire. 

 He said that the females were decidedly later than the males in 

 emerging (about ten days on the average). He also shewed a beautiful 

 series of Dianthcecia cdbimacula, Bkh., from a locality he could not 

 mention. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker exhibited a collection of butter- 

 flies of the genus Ogyris from the Australian region, and gave an 

 interesting account of their peculiar life-history, their association with 

 ants, &c. — Colbkan J. Wainweight, Hon. Sec. 



