15^' THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



February 5th. — Annual Meeting. Mr. E. 0. Bradley in the chair. 

 Mr. W. Bowater, of Portland Eoad, Edgbaston, was elected a member. 

 Reports of the Treasurer and Council were presented, the former 

 showing a small balance in hand. The officers and council for 1894-5 

 were elected as follows : — President, Mr. G. H. Kenrick; Vice-President, 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune Baker; Treasurer, Mr. R. C. Bradley; Librarian, 

 Mr. A. H. Martineau ; Hon, Secretary, Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, 

 147, Hall Road, Handsworth ; and remaining members of Council, 

 Messrs. P. W. Abbott and W. Harrison. Exhibits :— By Mr. P. W. 

 Abbott, a short series of Acidalia Jmmiliata from the Isle of Wight, one 

 of which he took in 1891, the remainder being sent to him by Mr. 

 A. J. Hodges ; also Caradrina superstes from Guernsey ; he said that a 

 specimen of this species had been taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, 

 last autumn, by Mr. Prout ; also Hadena dentina from Sutton and Isle 

 of Wight, the former a particularly dark specimen, the latter a chalk- 

 cliff form, very pale and quite unlike the dark one in appearance ; also 

 a specimen of Lohophora viretata from Sutton, very small and pale, 

 without the median bands ; and other interesting insects. By Mr. 

 A. H. Martineau, workers of Myrmica rufa and M. sanrixdnea ; of the 

 latter rare ant he had found a nest in Wyre Forest. By Mr. R. G. 

 Bradley, Gonia lateralis from Trench Woods. By Mr. W. Harrison, 

 Lyccena argiohis and HaJias j^rasiiiana from Frankley, near Harborne, 

 &c. — CoLBEAN J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — February IWi, 

 1894. Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Miss E. H. Lea, Kirby Park, West Kirby, and Mr. Frederick Rose, 

 64, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, were elected ordinary members of the 

 Society. Mr. Robert Newstead read a paper entitled " Correlations of 

 Plants and Insects," in which he discussed the fertilisation of the 

 Yucca, and explained the process as described by Prof. C. V. Riley in 

 * Insect Life,' and added notes from his own observations on the 

 insects frequenting the flowers in this country. He also gave notes on 

 the gall-making Brachyscelidae of Australia, a group of Coccids peculiar 

 to that country. He also called attention to the galls of Diptosis 

 rumicis, Linn., and suggested that it is quite possible botanists have 

 described malformed "tubercles" of some species oi Rimrex, as he had 

 found a great number of "tubercles" abnormally swollen by this 

 species. The paper was illustrated by diagrams and specimens, 

 including a specimen of gall-making coccids from Australia. 



March 12th. — The President in the chair. Mr. W. E. Sharp gave 

 a brief description of the British species of the genus Silpha, par- 

 ticularly those of local occurrence, in the course of which he quoted an 

 extract from the ' Transactions ' of the Societe de Biologic of Paris by 

 Prof. A. Giard on Silpha opaca, an insect most destructive to the 

 French beet-root crops. The notes were illustrated by specimens of 

 the genus. Miss E. H. Lea exhibited varieties of Cidaria psitticata 

 and <J. miata ; Mr. John Lea, large specimens of Cidaria sagittata ; Mr. 

 John Watson exhibited Mrganostoma ca:so7iia, Catopsilia crocea, Colias 

 vautieri, and C.Jieldii. — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



Reading Natural History Society. — The usual monthly meeting 

 of this Society was held on Thursday, Feb. 1st, at 8 p.m., in Mr. 



