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of ZyganaJilipendulcB, both having the central spots and upper spot of the 

 outer pair absent, and the inner pair of spots being very much contracted : 

 S^ "^^^^ examples were captured in July, 1876, near Oakleigh Park. 

 Mr. Tugwell, specimens of Deilephila galii, bred by him from a large 

 number of larvae taken at Deal in 1888, together with continental examples 

 of the species, and remarked that the most probable explanation of the 

 unusual abundance of D. galii last season was that of immioration and 

 It had occurred to him that the specimens of the moth taken m the early 

 part of the year were from continentally-fed larva? ; he had, therefore, 

 written to most of the captors of the species, and he found that the 

 measurements of the females ranged from 3| in. to 3| in., while out of a 

 total of ninety-two males and females, about two-thirds being the latter 

 bred by him from English-fed larv^, the largest was 3^^ in. ; one, however] 

 had been bred at Liverpool, which measured 8^ in. : this difference of 

 nearly | in., m his opinion, clearly proved that the bulk of the 1888 

 captured specimens had immigrated to England. Mr. BiUups exhibited 

 exotic Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Homoptera, and three specips of 

 Coleoptera :— Sfl^ra huquetii from Java, S. chnjsochlora from Australia 

 and S. cdmleata from Madagascar. Mr. W. West, two specimens of 

 talosoma sycophanta (male and female), one captured, 1873, at Freshwater 

 Bay, and the other in Greenwich Park, 1888. The remainder of the evenin.r 

 was devoted to an exhibition of microscopical objects by the members. ° 

 llth April.— The President in the chair. Messrs. A. W. Dennis of 

 Kingsland, and G. E. Dench, of Tufnell Park, were elected members 

 Mr. Tugwell exhibited a bred series oi Nyssia hispidaria, showing extreme 

 m'"u °i^"^^ coloration; and a bred series of TcBniocmnpa leucographa. 

 Mr K. Adkin, Euchromia mygindana, E. arbulella, and Coccijx nemorivaga 

 bred from larvae in slioots of the common bearberry {Arctostaphytos vva-iirsi] 

 from torres. Mr. South, series of Plusia iota, including two of the variety 

 percontatioms, P. pulchrina, and made some remarks on the diflferences 

 between the two species ; two series of Epuiida lichenea, one from Plymouth 

 and the other from Portland ; the specimens from the first-mentioned"l(.cality 

 were fairly typical, the others were small greenish grey specimens, with but 

 little, it any, o^f the pink or reddish tinge characteristic ol the tvpe ; Euholia 

 limitata and Bupalus piniaria from various localities, and made^obs'ervations 

 thereon. Mr. Jenner Weir, some butterHies, which he had desquamated bv 

 the " Waterhouse process," and remarked that although the scales of the 

 wings were dissolved, yet the hairs remained unaffected, and that the areen 

 pattern on the wings of sucli butterflies as Papiliu lurhinus and Timmala 

 petiverana retained their colour after the desquamation ; the marking's were 

 not merely superhcial in these insects. A paper, " On the origin'^of the 

 genus Anthocharis," by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerelf was read. Mr. Cockerell 

 was of opinion that the genus Anthocharis was by no means an ancient 

 genus, and that it arose directly from an old Pieris stock, and that probably 

 :on the American continent. Messrs. Weir, South, and Tutt made some 

 lobservations on Mr. Cockerell's paper. Mr. Wilkinson exhibited several 

 species of scorpions; and Mr. White, some of the larger species of 

 Arachnida.— H. W. Bakkkr, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — This Society which was 

 recently started, lias already held several meetings in a room at the Medical 

 Institute, Birmingham, which has been secured for the Society by its 



