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March Sth. — The President in the chair. Mr. K. Adkin exhibited 

 a series of Erehia epiphron, Knoch. var. cassiope, Fb., from Inverness, 

 which were said to be of the type form [epiphron) ; he had, however, 

 failed to detect the white pupil to the ocellated spots, which was the 

 typical character. Mr. Weir said that the British form had no trace 

 of the white pupil. Mr. Koutledge, specimens of a brood of Selenia 

 bihmaria, Esp., which bad lain over the summer of 1892, emerging in 

 April, 1893 ; also individuals bred from a pair of the latter, which had 

 emerged at intervals from Aug., 1893, to Feb., 1894, and were all of 

 the small form, although some had the pigment well developed ; he 

 also brought a series of Epunda lutulenta, Bork., captured in Cum- 

 berland, among which were both the var. sedi, Gn., and the var. lune- 

 bimjensis, Frr. Mr. South, exceedingly large female specimens of 

 Ocneria dispar, L., bred upwards of thirty years ago from larvae 

 obtained in the fens ; he thought these specimens had originally 

 belonged to the late Mr. Staudish, and Mr. Weir said that they agreed in 

 the setting with examples in his own collection which he had received 

 from Mr. Standish. Mr. Frohawk, a third brood of Pararge megara, 

 L., ten males and ten females, bred by himself from ova deposited on 

 Aug. 2nd, 1893. Mr. Billups, three species of rare Ichneumonidae, 

 viz., Microgaster russatus, Hal., taken at High Beech in 1884; Hyper- 

 acmiis crassicornis, Gr., of which only one recorded specimen was 

 known, taken at Oxshot in 1892; and Euryproctus nemoralis, Fov., 

 taken at the same place last July. Mr. Filer, a series of Hyhemia 

 Jeucophaaria, Schiff., taken at Kichmond and Epping, among which 

 were some exceptionally dark forms. Mr. W. A. Pearce, specimens of 

 Attacus lima, L., and Citheronia regalis, F., from Wilkinsburg, U.S.A. 

 Mr. Jenner Weir, male and female Heteronympha merope, Fab., and 

 stated that the sexes were so totally unlike as to be deemed different 

 species until quite recently ; he also said that the chrysalis was said to 

 be contained in a frail network on the ground. Mr. Auld, on behalf 

 of Dr. Knaggs, a working model of the decoy and net described in the 

 ' Entomologist,' 1893, and a considerable discussion ensued. Mr. Step 

 stated that he had found that the flowers of the butcher's broom 

 (Ruscus aculeatus, L.), were produced in pairs on the phylloclade, but 

 only one bud opened at a time. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Report Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — January 15th, 1894. Mr. 

 K. C. Bradley in the chair. Exhibits : — By Mr. G. T. Bethune Baker, 

 Agrotis ravida from Wicken, and three specimens of Tapinostola ex- 

 trema, Hb. (concolor, Gn.), taken near Wicken by Albert Houghton; 

 also a collection of Lepidoptera received from Alexandria ; he said that 

 the species showed a mingling of Mediterranean with Indo-Persic 

 forms ; there were no true Ethiopian forms amongst them ; twenty-two 

 of the species were new to science, and it was perhaps the largest 

 collection yet received from Egypt. By Mr. Bradley, specimens of 

 Andrana fiilva and A. cineraria, which had been dug out of nests 

 at Sutton by railway men on Dec. 28th, a date when they should 

 have been in pupas ; he had communicated with Mr. Saunders, 

 who said that the only similar case of which he knew was that 

 Mr. Enock had dug up an Andrc^na, with a parasitic Nomada, once in 

 December, 



