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stigmata ; a Plusia fjamma having the y mark reduced to a pale 

 spot. 



December \1th. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, Vice-President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Newnham, Hersham, Surrey, was elected a member. — Mr. 

 MacArthur exhibited a male specimen of Lasiocawpa quercus taken at 

 Brighton, and having the female coloration. — Mr. Kirkaldy, a specimen 

 of the Heteropteron Pu'duviolus Jems ?, having the wings on one side 

 brachypterous and on the other macropterous. — Mr. F. M. B. Carr, a 

 bred series of Selenia illunaria, compared with the female parents, 

 and showing considerable variation ; series of Ennomos angularia from 

 several localities, for comparison ; Dicijcla oo from Chingford ; varied 

 series of BnjopJdla muralia from Hythe ; and series of Acidalia mar- 

 ginepunctata from Hythe and Porloek, the latter being much the 

 darker. — Dr. Chapman read a paper entitled, " A few weeks in Central 

 Spain, and exhibited long and varied series of the Spanish forms of 

 British Lepidoptera, and of species very closely related to British 

 species. — Hy. J. Turner [Ron. Report Secy.). 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The monthly 

 meeting was held on Dec. 9th, 1901, in the Grosvenor Museum, 

 Chester, where the members were most cordially received by the 

 Curator, Mr. Robert Newstead, and Dr. H. Dobie. The Vice-President, 

 Mr. R. Wilding, occupied the chair. — The chairman, on behalf of the 

 Society, thanked Mr. Newstead for his handsome donation to the 

 library of a copy of the first volume of his work on the scale insects 

 entitled, ' A Monograph of the British Coccidfe.' This valuable con- 

 tribution to the science of entomology has been published by the Eay 

 Society, and contains thirty-nine plates from original drawings by the 

 author. The work, purely a labour of love, is not only of great in- 

 terest to the entomologist as being the first monograph of these injurious 

 insects ever published in this country, but is also of great practical 

 value to the fruit-grower ; and it would be well if a copy of it could be 

 placed in the hands of every market-gardener and horticulturist 

 throughout the land. — The following exhibits were examined : — Recent 

 specimens of Lyccsna arion, and Welsh specimens of Saturnia pavonia, 

 by Mr. Newstead ; British Aphodiina, including A. villoms a,iid jEgialia 

 rufa, by Mr. Wilding ; Trigonogenius globulus, a Coleopteron new to the 

 Cheshire Hst, on behalf of Mr. E. J. Burgess- Sopp ; rare Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera from Cheshire and North Wales, including Pompilus 

 approximatus, Astata stigma, Oxybelus mucronatus, Vespa austriaca, 

 Colletes cuniciilaria, Halictus atricornis, Osmia xanthomelana 0. inermis, 

 and 0. parietina, by Mr. Willoughby Gardner ; the exceedingly rare 

 Ophiodes lunaris, taken in Delamere Forest by Mr. T. Wright, of War- 

 rington (an account of this capture, establishing its genuineness 

 beyond all doubt, was given by Mr. Joseph Collins, along with a 

 summary of all the previous British records) ; a fine series of Lepido- 

 ptera from Simons wood Moss, including Carsia imbutata and Celmia 

 haworthii, by Dr. J. Cotton. — Mr. Newstead read a paper entitled 

 " Entomological Gleanings from my Diary," which was illustrated by 

 electric hght views. As usual, it was exceedingly instructive, almost 

 every sentence containing some new observation or fact in insect 

 economy, so that this most wide-awake of naturalists kept his hearers 



