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stages, in support of those shown by the superficial imaginal charac- 

 ters, and those of the ancillary appendages in H. nictitans, H. palu- 

 dis, and H. lucens, but more particularly to detect, if possible, diffe- 

 rentiating characters in the early stages of the two species H. lucens 

 and H. criyiayiensis, the genitalic characters of which are so entirely 

 different in both sexes and yet whose facial characters so far appear 

 practically indistinguishable. Excellent photogi'aphs of the genital 

 organs of the four British species (both sexes), made by Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce, were handed round for examination. — The Eev. C. E.. N. 

 Burrows, to whose research the discovery of H. crinanensis is really 

 due, stated tiiat he had little to add to what Mr. Tutt had said ; 

 it seemed to him amazing that two species showing so much diffe- 

 rence as H. lucens and H. crinanensis in their genitalia, sliould 

 present no definitely marked superficial character in the imago. — Dr. 

 Karl Jordan considered that the four species, as proved by the diffe- 

 rences in the genitalic structures, were abundantly distinct, and 

 brought forward a parallel case among the Attacids. — Mr. J. C. 

 Kershaw contributed a paper on " The Oothecae of an Asilid (Pro- 

 machus, sp.)." — Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper 

 entitled " Xanthandrus comtus, Namr., a Correction." — H. Eowland- 

 Brown, M.x\., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — Jlfarc/i 2nd, 1910.— Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. Mr. Sich exhibited specimens of ColeopJiora troglody- 

 tella bred from larvae fed on Achillea millefolium, and also larvae 

 feeding on mignonette seeds, probably those of Borkhausenia j^seudo- 

 spretella. — Mr. R. Adkin, series of Tceniocampa gothica \a,v. gothicina, 

 selected from a large number of bred and captured specimens. — 

 Captain Cardew, a bred series of Pachnobia leucographa, very dark in 

 colour; a series of typical T. gotliica, bred from var. gothicina 

 parents ; and specimens of Phigalia jwdaria from Wimbledon, one 

 taken on January 2nd, worn ; two on March 18th, in good condition. 

 — Mr. P. Barrett reported Brephos parthcnias and Gonepteryx rhamni 

 in woods near London. 



March 10th. — Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 — Mr. West exhibited two cabinet drawers of the Society's collection 

 of Coleoptera which he had just remounted and arranged. — Mr. 

 Barrett, specimens of Nyssia hispidaria, Phygalia pedaria, and 

 Hyhernia leucophaaria, from Richmond Park, and noted that he took 

 the first-named species in the same locality forty years ago, and that 

 quite one-third of the last species seen were more or less crippled. — 

 Mr. Lucas, the photogi'aph of a very rare earwig, 0. leivisi, from a 

 specimen obtained in the Liverpool Docks (see p. 129). — Mr. Bonham, 

 two bred, intensely black, females of Nyssia hispidaria. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, an interesting series of Anthrocera, species from Bristol, 

 taken by Messrs. Smallcombe, including A. hippocrepidis var. chry- 

 santhevii, a yellow form, a fine pink form, and a red form with yellow 

 spots, with a confluent form of A. lonicera. He also showed a con- 

 fluent specimen of A. mcliloti, and reported that pupae of a second 

 brood of Abraxas grossulariata kept out of doors were still alive. 

 The remainder of the evenini:' was devoted to the exhibition of 



