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of Lycra hirtana passing three winters in that stage. (5) The per- 

 fection of the imagines of Lujdia adustata in autumn in the pupa for 

 emergence in the spring. (6) The large percentage of autumn larvae 

 which have been parasitised. (7) Reported the occurrence of both 

 Colias hyale and C. cdusa in Surrey on October 1st. — Mr. Brook, the 

 gall of the Cecidomyid, Urophora cardui, on thistle. — Mr. West 

 (Greenwich) the beetle, Necrobia rufipes, which had stores of cobra 

 and spread in numbers to neighbouring dwelling-houses ; and 

 Bhizophagus parallelocollis, which had attacked seed potatoes at 

 Brockenhurst. — Mr. Leeds, many aberrations of Agriades coridon 

 and Polyommatus icarus from the Chilterns, Herts and Hunts.— The 

 Rev. F. M. B. Carr reported V. io and Pyrameis atalanta as very 

 common in Cheshire this season. 



October 2oth, 1917.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — The decease of a member, Mr. Archer (1911), was announced. 

 — The President read a paper on " The Pieridte," dealing chietiy witli 

 the "lines of variation" in each of the species which breed in Britain 

 usually, and illustrated his remarks with diagrams and the specimens 

 contained in the Society's various collections. — Mr. Leeds, aberrations 

 of Pieris rapcB : .-J without spots, (^ large, (J 's (third brood) small, 

 ? deep yellow^ below ; P. brassiccB, ? blotched with bright green, 

 ? pale blue below, ? very large ; P. napi, c? (third brood) small. — 

 Mr. Moore, exotic Pierids to show that many species were not white : 

 Tachyris nero, red ; Archonias critias, nearly all black ; Apyiias 

 cclcstina, blue ; Neplierinia tlialassina, pale green ; Teracolus sp., 

 irridescent at apex ; and Leptophobia sp., silvery lustre below. He 

 also showed Leucidia brcphos, the smallest Pierid known, and the 

 much debated Pseudopontia paradoxa. — Mr. West (Greenwich), 

 the local Coleopteron Clonus longicollis, a series. — Mr. Bunnett, the 

 Coleopteron Ptinus tectus, which had attacked some cayenne pepper, 

 and also the curious concentrically formed fungus Daldinia coii- 

 centrica. — Hy. J. Turner (Hon. Editor of Proceed.). 



November 8th. — The President in the chair. — The decease of a 

 life-member, Mr. R. Standen (1873) was announced. — Mr. Leeds 

 exhibited forms and aberrations of various British Leucaniidce, 

 including Leucania impura, with ab. pimctina, etc. ; L. pallcns, with 

 ab. ectypa, nh.arcuata, etc. ; L.phragviitidis, with iih.rufcscens, etc.; 

 Cosnobut rufa ; Tapinostola fidva ; Nonagria gcminipuncta, with ab. 

 unipuncta, ab. obsoleta, etc.; A', dissoiuta; N. brevilinea, with ab. 

 sinelinea, etc. — Mr. A. W. Buckstone, a series of a small race of 

 Aricia medoii (astrarche) from Wendover, May, 1912, with Surrey 

 series for comparison. — Mr. Edwards, a number of speciesof Pieridcs 

 and referred to the different odours which' were emitted by the 

 specialised scales in many species. — Mr. Turner, examples of the 

 Pierid Aiithochans craincri (bclia) from some twenty localities, and 

 referred to the local and seasonal forms.— Hy. J. Turner (Hon. Editor 

 of Proceed.). 



Lancashire AND Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 

 held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, Monday, 

 October 15th, 1917. — According to custom, the first meeting of the 

 session is devoted to exhibits of the last season's work. This year, 

 as all our younger members are away on military service, there was 



