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Britain. — Mr. C. H. Williams, a long and varied series of Vanessa 

 urticcB. 



September 21st, 1915. — Mr. E. W. Bobbins, Vice-President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. E. A. Aris, 9, Oak Avenue, Hornsey, N., and Mr. 



C. S. Bayne, 7, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, S.W., were elected 

 members. — Mr. L. B. Hall exhibited a colony of the red spinning 

 mite Tetranynchus lintearius from gorse bushes on the cliffs of 

 South Devon. — Mr. A. W. Mera, long and very varied series' of 

 "Burnets." — Mr. H. J. Burkill, two rare midge galls, Perrisia 

 salicarice on Ly thrum salicaria, and P. genisticola on Genista tinctoria. 



October 5th, 1915.— Mr. L. B. Prout, F.E.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. — Mr. A. W. Mera exhibited a cabinet drawer of " Agrotids." 

 — Mr. L. W. Newman, a drawer of Aplecta nebulosa bred from ab. 

 robsoni, parents and representatives of a brood of Boarmia rej^mdata 

 ab. conversaria from a male ab. conversaria x light Hunts female, 

 and read notes on the results obtained. — Mr. C. H. Heath, a long 

 series of Plutella dalella taken on the south border of Durham in 

 August, those in the extensive variation observed in a small wood. — 

 Mr. J. E. Gardner, a similar series from Epping Forest for comparison. 

 — Mr. C. Nicholson, Lampyris noctiluca, Phylodecta viminalis, 

 Creophilus maxillosus, Ledra aurita, Trisophora vulnerata, Dolycoris 

 baccarum, Tipula gigantea, Ptychoptera contaminata, Echinomyia 

 fera, Xylota sylvarum, Limosina ccenosa bred from a nest of VesjJa 

 gcrmanica, with a Phora from the same nest, identified provisionally 

 by J. E. Collin as sublugubris (Wood), Ammophila campestris, Fcenus 

 jacnlator, and a worker of V. v^dgaris which the exhibitor stated was 

 the smallest he had ever seen; attention was called to the dis- 

 proportionately long antennae. — Mr. H. W. Wood, a short series of 

 Agrotis vestigialis ab. nigra (Tutt) from Surrey, Echinomyia grossa 

 from Aviemore, and Physocephala rufipes from a wasp's nest on Box 

 Hill. — Mr. W. E. King, interesting forms of Thecla rubi from 

 Horsley, and Hecatera serena, Dianthoecia conspersa, D. carpophaga, 



D. cucubali, and D. capsincola from the same locality. — Mr. 

 L. B. Prout, a box of coast Agrotids mostly from Scotland, including 

 one -4. obelisca from Stonehaven, a new record for this locality. — Mv. 

 C. H. Williams, varieties of Agriades corydon, including abs. margijiata, 

 albina, foicleri, syngrapha, semi-syngrapha, and obcoleta. — Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, M.D., F.R.C.P., read a paper on "Points to Observe in 

 Common Insects," illustrated by a series of lantern slides from 

 photographs by Mr. Hamm of Oxford. 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — October 6th, 1915. — 

 Exhibition Evening. — Mr. R. Tate, Junr., A. grossulariata vars., 

 local and from Huddersfield larvae; A. ashivorthii and A. agathina 

 from Penmaenmawr; D. mcjidica from South Devon. — Mr. J. H. 

 Watson, living specimens and mature laying ova of the great stick 

 insect, Eurycnema herculanea, from Java, feeding on evergreen oak. — 

 Mr. W. Mausbridge, A. Icporina and var. melanocephala, L. agon, 

 series of blue females from Westmorland; E. octomaculalis and 

 H. muricata from Witherslack ; B. sanguinalis from Wallasey ; 

 P. co77iparana and P. variegana, series showing variation from 

 Delamere Forest and Spake (Lanes) ; series of D, assimilella from 



