210 . THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



about the second week in Ma}^ the j^erfect insect appearing the 

 first or second week in June, usually about nine or ten o'clock on 

 a sunny morning. Some observations were made by members 

 on capturing the rarer species of Sesiidte. 



July l^th, 1888. J. T. Carrington, Esq., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. Messrs. A. L. Clarke, W. B. Farr, and E. Atherton, 

 were elected members. Mr. Weir exhibited a male specimen of 

 Lyccena icariis, which he had taken at Lewes in June last. It 

 was remarkable as showing a slight tendency to hermaiihroditism. 

 There were on the upper side of the underwings two well-defined 

 and several smaller submarginal spots, the colour of all the 

 wings in other respects was that of an ordinary male of the 

 species. His attention had been drawn to the insect by a male 

 of the same species, evidently b}' its actions, mistaking the 

 specimen exhibited for a female. Some discussion followed, 

 Messrs. Tutt, Tugwell, South, Weir, Carrington, and others 

 taking part. Mr. Jager, two specimens of Auetia villica, with 

 dark hind wings, forms of EupitJieeia recta ngulata, and an 

 example of the larvse of Callimorpha heva. Mr. R. Adkin, 

 Eupithecia togata, bred from Perthshire larvae ; the imagines 

 varied much as to colour. Mr. Robinson, an example of Miami 

 strigilis, from Monkswood, which was pinker than usual. Mr. 

 South remarked that he had taken very large and red forms of 

 this species in North Devon. Mr. Dobson, Asphalia ridens and 

 Notodcmta cJiaonia, bred from larvae beaten in the New Forest. 

 Mr. Turner, a variety of Vanessa cardui, an example of the 

 female Ermaturga atvmaria, with a pale fringe, and specimens of 

 Pieris napi, and asked whether the absence of spots in this 

 species was unusual. Mr. Weir, in reply, said it was not at all 

 unusual in the spring emergence. Mr. West, Greenwich examples 

 of lihantiis notatiis, Cercyon aquaticus, Ileteroceras ohsoletns, 

 taken on the Salt Marshes, Milton, near Gravesend. The 

 Secretary exhibited on behalf of Mr. T. 1). A. Cockerell, a sketch 

 of a Thomisidcie spider, on flower of Ligustricum montanum, 

 observed by him in Custer Co., Colorado, and read notes on the 

 deceptive likeness of the spider to the flower. Mr. Weir said 

 similar spiders were not at all uncommon in England ; there 

 were several species closely resembling the flowers on which they 

 were in the habit of sitting for the purpose of obtaining their 

 food. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



