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October 20th. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. C. J. Waiiiwright showed a specimen of Meriania argentlfera, Meig., 

 a Tachinid new to Britain, taken by Mr. W. J. Lucas in the New Forest 

 on April SOfch last ; also M. piqjarum for comparison. — Mr. W. H. 

 Flint, various Lepidoptera: Larentia unam^idata from Yardley and Hay 

 Wood; L. sordidata (elutnta), and L. autumnalis, Strom, (^inipluviata, 

 Wo.), showing a great range of variation ; Boarmia repandata, dark 

 specimens, one from Sutton very black, but not suffused, the markings 

 clear but all very dark grey, not brown ; also others from Forest of 

 Dean almost as black, and a dark one from South Yorkshire, which, 

 however, was brown and not grey in colour ; dark Hybernia leuco- 

 phcEaria from the Forest of Dean ; Lygris populata, dark suffused speci- 

 mens from near Glasgow ; Calymnia trapezina, a very dark specimen 

 from Sutton of a deep olive green, nearly black ; Hybernia maryinaria, 

 nearly black suffused specimens from Sutton ; Larentia sufnmata, a 

 suffused but not black specimen, also from Sutton. He pointed out 

 that amongst these specimens were four species from Sutton with more 

 or less tendency towards melanism. — Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis, a series 

 of the Midland species of the coleopterous genus Cercyon, Leach ; four- 

 teen species out of the total of eighteen found in Britain occur near 

 Knowle, including granariun and quisquilius. — Mr. J. T. Fountain, 

 Lepidoptera, including Mamestra serena from Sutton, Knowle, Spark- 

 brook, &c. ; Dianthcecia nana[cunspersa) from Jersey ; Eurymene dolabraria 

 from the Wyre Valley ; &c. — Mr. G. W. Wynn, various Lepidoptera, 

 including Hylophila bicolorana [quercana), two fine specimens taken in 

 Wyre Forest on August 22nd last ; Ayrotis neylecta, one fine one taken 

 at the same time and place ; Zeazera pynna, a pair from Hampton-in- 

 Arden taken in cop., the female being quite double the size of the male ; 

 and Metopsilas porcell us, taken at Hampden-in-Arden on June 26th last. 



COLBRAN J. WaINWRIGHT, HoU. ScC. 



Lancashire and CnEsmRE Entomological Society. — The opening 

 meeting of the winter session, held on October 13th, in the Royal 

 Institution, Liverpool, was largely attended. In the unavoidable 

 absence of the President, Mr. S. J. Capper, Dr. John Cotton, F.E.S., 

 of St. Helen's, occupied the chair. — Mr. E. J. B. Sopp proposed, and 

 Mr. F. C. Tiiompson seconded, that Messrs. Oscar Whittaker, of 

 Bolton ; James Roland Charnley, F.E.S., of Preston ; A. G. Walling- 

 ton, of Warrington ; John Lea, and J, Jervis Richardson, of Liver- 

 pool, be elected members of the Society. It was unanimously decided 

 to hold the next meeting in Liverpool, on Nov. 10th, and that a 

 meeting be held in Warrington, on Dec. 8th, provided the secretaries 

 were able to make all necessary arrangements for the same. A large 

 and interesting display of insects was shown by members, amongst 

 the more striking being the following : — Fine series of Lepidoptera 

 captured during 1902, by Dr. J. Cotton, on Simonswood Moss and in 

 North Devon, ui exhibiting which he gave much valuable information 

 regarding the methods employed in the taking of Notodonta dlctceoides. 

 Captures at the Delamere field-meeting by Mr. F. N. Pierce included 

 excellent specimens of the local Tepliroda biandularia var. delamerensis, 

 Cidaria corylata, Thera variata, and other moths. — Mr. C. F. Johnson 

 exhibited very fine black varieties of Zygmia viinos. Mr. J. R. le 



