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report on the condition of tiie library of Lhe Society at an early date. 

 A paper on Organic Evolution, with lime-light views, was communi- 

 cated by Mr. William Hewett, President of the York and District 

 Naturalists' Society, who, whilst dealing very ably with the subject in 

 general, also made special allusion to many points of peculiar interest 

 to entomologists, more particularly with respect to varieties intheLepido- 

 ptera. An interesting discussion followed, on the melanism of Amphi- 

 dasys hetularia var. donbleJaijaria and other moths, in which the chair- 

 man, Mr. J. Eay Hardy, of Owens College, Dr. J. Cottou, Messrs. F. N. 

 Pierce, B. H. Crabtree, G. 0. Day, and others took part. On the motion 

 of Mr. Pierce, seconded by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, a hearty vote of thanks 

 was accorded the lecturer for his paper. The fine display of exhibits 

 included, amongst others, the drawing of an extraordinary abnor- 

 mality in Prionns californiais, which was double in every limb ; and a 

 series of cases of Coleoptera by Mr. Piay Hardy ; Triphmia interjccta, 

 Noctua glareosa, N. hrunnea, &c.,by Mr. R. Newstead, on behalf of Miss 

 Steele Perkins, of Rhyl; bone variety of Arctia pla ntag inis a.nd var. 

 hospita, by Mr. Harold Milne ; Orgiiia pudibunda, by Dr. J. Cotton and 

 Mr. F. C. Thompson ; varieties oi Ahraxai^ grosmlariata, Ephyra, &c., by 

 Mr. B. H. Crabtree ; two rare Dutch volumes with coloured plates by 

 Sepp, and Lepidoptera varieties by Mr. G. 0. Day ; varieties of Arctia 

 caia, by Mr. C. F. Johnson ; Arctia lubricipeda, A. urtica, &c., by Mr. 

 Herbert Massey ; Dianthcecia conspersa by Mr. F. N. Pierce ; Perth- 

 shire Coleoptera, and Coelioxgs viandibularis, a hymenopteron new to 

 the British list, by Mr. F. Birch ; Hemiptera from Bolton, by Mr. Oscar 

 Whittaker ; Anechura bipunctata, an Armenian earwig, with the 

 Caucasian variety orientalis, by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp. — E. J. Bukgess 

 Sopp, Hon. Secretary. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March llth. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited 

 a few Lepidoptera taken in Wyre Forest, including a pair of Ajnimea 

 testacea, which had been taken in cop. at 3 p.m. ; Sesia ichneumoni- 

 forniis, Myelois cribrella [crihrum), FJncJtluris pustulata (hajitlaria), and 

 Hemithea strigata (tkymiaria). — Mr. J. T. Fountain, a series of Lasio- 

 ctimpa quercus, including local bred females from young larvfe taken in 

 the spring and bred same summer ; the specimens running from very light 

 ones to quite dark ones ; also some males taken " sembhng " at Sutton, 

 with wide light lines approaching var. callnnce. In answer to questions, 

 he said that he had also taken full-fed larvae of the same species at 

 Sutton in the autumn. — Mr. A. D. Imms, Lepisma saccharina, taken 

 in a kitchen at West Bromwich ; it is one of our fovir British species 

 of Thysanura. — Mr. C. J. Wainwright, photos of insects and parts of 

 insects taken by Mr. Mearns, of Aberdeen. — Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, a drawerful of LycaBiiidse of the group Amblypodia, chiefly 

 the genus Arhopala, and gave an account of the same, explaining his 

 theories of the origin of the various forms. He believes all were 

 originally brown, and the more blue there is, the more recent the 

 species, roughly speaking. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



