B24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



AiKjnat 22nd. — Mr. F. Noad Clark. Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Dr. Chapman exhibited a larva of Gi-(Bllsia uabelJce from Spain, the 

 only European species of the Attacin^e group of the Saturniidte, and 

 pointed out the protective nature of its colour resemblance to the twigs 

 of its food, Scotch fir. — Mr. F. H. Day, local and rare Coleoptera from 

 Carlisle, including Donacia discolor of all shades and variation ; Hijdro- 

 t/icifisa hanovivana, eighteen specimens by sweeping Caltha pahintris; 

 Bradijcellm collaris ; SpJiarites rjlabratus, one of two specimens taken in 

 carrion and very rare; Telephonis abdominal is, found among bracken ; 

 T. darivinia)ius ; Rhynchites cupreus from mountain ash ; and Afiahus 

 atcticus, one of the rarest British Agabi. — Mr. Enock, a pair of Onhe- 

 trum cancellation, captured in cop., at Wisley on July 20th ; the female 

 was of the same blue colour as the male. 



September 12th. — Mr. W. Lucas, B.A., Vice-President, in the chair. 

 — Mr. South exhibited two specimens of the " bull' variety" of Ainphi- 

 dafiijs betularia, type form; and a bufi:' variety of var. donbledayaria. 

 The latter specimen was bred, with several similar examples, by Mr. 

 John Taylor, of Oldham, some years ago. He remarked that Mr. 

 Taylor had informed him, in reply to a direct question on the point, 

 that " the larvje, pupa?, and imagines of bufif betularia were never in 

 any place where they would be subject to the influence of chlorine 

 vapour, or anything that might tend to change their colour." — Dr. 

 Chapman, a much suffused black var. of an Arcjijnnis sp. from Spain ; 

 in shape it was A. ar/laia, but the under side was marked like A. 

 adippe. — Mr. Lucas, for Mr. H. E. Aunett, a var. of Epinephele hijper- 

 anthus, from Oxshott, nearly approaching var. arete ; a male specimen 

 of the large earwig, Labidura riparia, taken by Major Robertson in 

 Pokesdown, Aug. 1900 ; and coloured drawings of (1) Arijijnnis paphia, 

 male, a pale yellow var. ; (2) Epinephele tithonus, female, a xanthic 

 var. ; both from specimens taken in the New Forest. — Mr. Kirkaldy, 

 numerous species of Miridre = Capsidfe, of the genera (1) Orectodorus, 

 most of which are ant-mimics, and (2) Pv^sthenia. — Mr. West, of 

 Greenwich, long series of three 'closely allied and obscure species of 

 Homoptera — Acocephalns brunneo-bifasciatus and A. fiavo-striatus, both 

 from roots of grass on waste land at Catford, and A. albifrons, under 

 furze bushes, Blackheath. — -Mr. Kemp, living nymphs of the Odonata, 

 Synipetruni striolatuui, GompJuis rnli/atixsimus, and Caloptery.v riryo, all 

 from the New Forest. — Mr. Edwards, some remarkable pendant galls 

 on the under side of a leaf of a shrub, Machilns duthiei, from North- 

 west India. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — July 15th, 1901. — Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Ellis, Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr. J, T. Fountain 

 showed a series of 'icBuwcanipa instabilis, to illustrate its wide range of 

 variation. — Mr. A. H. Martineau, Bonibyliufi, sy>. = canescens 1^ from 

 West Malvern. — Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, in illustration of his paper, 

 the following Coleoptera ; Metcecus paradoxus, AleocJiara fiiscipes, Uonia- 

 lota trinotata, Xantholinus linearis. Cryptopliagus pubescens, and Antkicus 

 f oralis. — Mr. Ellis read, for Mr. H. St. John K. Donisthorpe, a paper 

 entitled " All that is known of Metcecus paradoxus," in which an account 

 was given ofits extraordinary life-history, &c. — Colbran J. Wainwright, 

 Ho7i. Sec. 



