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Jacoby exhibited three boxes of Coleoptera, collected partly by 

 Mr. Fruhstroffer, containing some rare Cetonlache, Paussidce, &c. 

 Mr. E. Saunders exhibited Amhlytylus deUcatus, Perr., a new 

 British bug, taken at Woking. Mr. Jacoby mentioned that he 

 had taken the larva of Vanessa cardui on a narrow white-leaved 

 plant in his garden. Mr. Enock mentioned that out of a batch 

 of two males and six females of the Hessian Fly kept togetlier, 

 all six females had laid fertile eggs, so that each male must have 

 impregnated more than one female. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— August 22,rd, 1888. T. R. Billups, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. Mr. H. A. Cruttwell, of Asuba, River Niger, West 

 Coast of Africa, was elected a member. Mr. J. T. Williams 

 exhibited nine specimens of Deilephila galii, taken by him at 

 St. Margaret's Bay, and mentioned that Mr. Felix Oswald had 

 taken eight specimens in the same district. Mr. Wellman, bred 

 examples of Heliaca tenehrata, Eiqntliecia togata, Emmelesia 

 unifasciata, Rodophcea formosa, R. suavella, R. avenella, Sesia 

 ichneumoniformis, among which were three specimens having 

 yellow bands; and he stated that he had bred only these three from 

 five dozen pupie, while last year out of three dozen he bred 

 sixteen of this variety ; and he also showed partially melanic 

 specimens of Venusia camhrica from Sheffield. Mr. South, many 

 species and varieties of Lepidoptera, among which was a variety of 

 Arct'ia villica and an example of a Plnsia, and called attention to 

 the curiously-serrated line on the hind margin of the primaries, 

 which formed a distinct metallic W ; he said the specimen, so 

 far as he knew, did not agree with any species hitherto described, 

 but it might possibly be a variety of Plusia gamma. Mr. Joy, 

 Coremia designata. Mr. Helps, Acontia luctuosa. Mr. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, Trichodes ornatus, Chrysis pacijica, and Cantharis 

 nuttalli from Colorado ; and notes were read relative to his 

 exhibit. The Secretary read the following communications from 

 Mr. Cockerell: a note on the genus Euchloe, and a sliort paper 

 entitled " Can Insects distinguish between Red and Yellow ?" in 

 which he asked the members to assist him with information as to 

 whether yellow insects showed a fondness or otherwise for pink 

 flowers, and whether the insects seemed aware of the difference 

 between red and yellow. 



