286 The entomologist. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a specimen of Luperina testacea, bred from a pupa 

 found at the root of a species of Silene at Eastbourne ; also a specimen of 

 Liiperina nickerlii, Freyer, caught in Lancashire last August. He also ex- 

 hibited, and read notes on, a long series of Boarinia repandata, the offspring 

 of parents bred from larvae collected in North Devon. Mr. Poulton, Mr. 

 Merrifield, and Lord Walsingham took part in the discussion which ensued. 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., exhibited a number of Coleoptera collected during 

 the past summer in Cobham Park, Kent. Thirty-three species were repre- 

 sented, amongst which were the following, viz., Eros minutus, Philonthus 

 fuscus, Homalota hepatica, AbrcBus granulum, Anisotoma grandls, Agarico- 

 phagus cephalotes, Thalycra sericea, Cryptophagus ruficornis, Platytarsus 

 setulosus, &c. He also exhibited a living larva of Helops ccBruleus. Mr. 

 Jacoby exhibited a curious phytophagous beetle found by Mr. J. H. Leech 

 in the Corea. He stated that he was unable to determine the genus, as 

 was also Mr. J. S. Baly, to whom he had submitted the specimen. Mr. R. 

 Adkin exhibited specimens of Retinia resinella, received by him from 

 Forres. Lord Walsingham remarked that he had never seen the species in 

 Scotland, but that it was not uncommon in Germany, and he had found it 

 at Hamburgh. Mr. W. Dannatt exhibited a male specimen of Papilio 

 antimachus, Drury, from Lukolela, a missionary station about 500 miles 

 from the mouth of the Congo. He stated that the species, although very 

 rare, had a wide range, as three other specimens of it had been received 

 from the Stanley Falls, which were more than 800 miles further up the 

 Congo. Lord Walsingham exhibited preserved specimens of the larva and 

 imago of Cidaria reticulata, from the Lake District, sent to him by 

 Mr. Hodgkinson. Mr. W. White stated that as some doubt had been 

 expressed at the last meeting as to whether the specimen of Nephroma 

 hippia, Fab., var. gcea, Feld., which he then exhibited, was hermaphrodite, 

 he had, with Mr. Griffith's permission, handed the specimen to Mr. G. T. 

 Baker for dissection. Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited fore wings of the 

 males of Argymiis paphia, A. adippe, and A. atlantis, denuded of the 

 scales, in order to show that there was no dilatation or thickening of the 

 median nervules and submedian nervure in that sex of these species ; but 

 that the apparent dilatation was produced by a dense mass of scales crowded 

 together on each side of the nervules. He also read a short paper on the 

 suliject entitled, " Notes on the nervules of the fore wings in the males of 

 Argynnis paphia and other species of the genus." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomolo(5ical and Natural History Sociktt. 

 —September ^dth, 1889. T. R. Billups, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. Mr. J. T. Williams exhibited Cucullia absynthii, from Portland. 

 Mr. Wellman, Plusia chryson and Dasydia ohfuscaria. Mr. Jager, Lepi- 

 doptera from the Lake District and the Isle of Man ; among those from 

 the last-named place were some interesting forms of Polyommatics phlceas, 

 and a small dark form of Pieris napi, which species Mr. Carrington said 

 was usually dark in that locality. Mr. Carpenter, Gnophos obscuraria, and 

 varieties of Bryophila muralis, from Folkestone. Mr. Tugwell, a long 

 series of varieties of Peronea hastiana, bred from larvae collected at Braemar, 

 Aberdeen. Mr. luce, Lepidoptera from Switzerland. Mr. Adkin, a series 

 of Hypermecia angustana, bred from larvae found feeding in shoots of 

 sallow collected in Co. Derry, Ireland. The specimens showed considerable 

 variation, some having the ground colour of the primaries silvery, and the 



