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series of the following: Va^iessa cardui from Barmouth; Ctono- 

 nymplia typlion, Erebia ciyipJiron, cand E. cethiops from Eannoch. — 

 Dr. A. Eandell Jackson brought a very interesting exhibit of humble 

 bees and their parasites captured in his garden at Chester, com- 

 prising some forty species, and contributed notes. — Mr. H. B. 

 Prince's exhibit contained long series of many local insects, promi- 

 nent among them being Bomhyx trifolii from the Lancashire coast ; 

 Lycccna corydon and var. semi-syngrapha, Vanessa urticce, several 

 specimens having the usual orange-red colour replaced by fuscous- 

 ochreous ; and Garterocephakts pakmion. — Mr. Wm. Mansbridge 

 showed Lycana cegon, a series from Witherslack with var. masseyi, 

 and one male, in which the orange spots on the under side were dark 

 fuscous-ochreous, while the hind wings on the upper side were 

 slaty-grey ; from Simonswood several specimens of Acronycta 

 Icporina var. vielanocephala ; Hyria vmricata, moss form, and 

 Ennychia octomaculata from Witherslack ; Bhodaria sanguinalis 

 from Wallasey ; Peronea compavana, P. variegana, and Depressaria 

 assimilella from Delamere Forest, the last-named being new to the 

 county list. — Mr. W. G. Clutten sent a box of Micro-Lepidoptera col- 

 lected in the Burnley District, which contained among the usual 

 common kinds a specimen of Gelechia scalclla taken at Burnley ; 

 this insect is new to the county list, and the record shows an exten- 

 sion of its range toward the North.— Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Sec. 



The London Natural History Society. — March %id, 1915. — 

 The President, Dr. E. A. Cockayne, M.A., F.E.C.P., F.E.S., in the 

 chair. — Mr. Herbert Loney, of 354, Goswell Road, E.C., was elected 

 a member. — Dr. Cockayne exhibited Diplococcus intraccllularis 

 meningitidis of Weichselbaum, the organism which produces epi- 

 demic cerebrospinal meningitis (spotted fever). — Mr. H. B. Williams, 

 aberrant forms of Brenthis eupUrosyne. and Argynnis aglaia. — Mr. 

 k. W. Mera, two cabinet drawers of " fritillaries," including some 

 fine dark forms of Brenthis selene and Argynnis adip)pe. 



March Wtli, 1915.— The President in the chair.— Mr. W. H. A. 

 Austen, 102, Knightsbridge, S.W., Prof. F. C. Hopkins, M.A., F.E.C.P., 

 F.E.S., 71, Grange Eoad, Cambridge, Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., Elm 

 Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield, and Mr. P. Worsley Wood, M.A., 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, were elected members of the Society. 

 — Mr. W. E. King exhibited a gynandromorph of Hyhernia marginaria, 

 right side female, left side male. — Mr. C. Nicholson, a complete type 

 collection of British social wasps, together with a comprehensive 

 collection of insects of other orders in illustration of a paper read by 

 him on " Parasites, Paying Guests, and Mimics of Wasps." 



Ajyrit 20th, 1915.— The President in the chair.— Mr. A. W. Mera 

 exhibited spring insects from Epping Forest, including dark Phigalia 

 p)edaria, Apocheiyna hispidaria, and Hyhernia leucojjhcearia. — Mr. 

 L. W. Newman, larvae of Agrotis ashworthii from Cohvyn Bay. — 

 Mr. Newman read a note on the successful wintering out-of-doors of 

 pupa) of Pyramcis atalanta, and suggested that all the early (May) 

 imagines seen had passed the winter as pupae. 



May ISth, 1915.— The President in the chair.— Mr. H. W. Wood 

 exhibited the larvte of Xanthia fulvago and lutea, and pointed out 



