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reference to a few groups of South American butterflies, and exhibited 

 a large number of insects in illustration. — Henry J. Turner, Hon. 

 Report Secretary. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — Fehrnanj Idth, 190G. — 

 Annual Meeting. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. 

 — The various annual reports, statement of accounts, &c., were pre- 

 sented, and the Officers and Council elected for the ensuing year. — 

 Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis exhibited various Coleoptera, including 

 Mycetochares bipustidatus, the larva of which was taken in the New 

 Forest, May 30th, 1904, and pupated on June 1st, and the imago 

 emerged on June 10th, 1904 ; also Ptinua sexpunctatiis from Solihull, 

 an insect new to Warwickshire ; also an Opilo, bred from the galls of 

 Cynipii kollari found at Biskra by Mr. W. H. Wilkinson. It differs so 

 slightly from our British mollis that it is probably that species ; also a 

 drawer of Anchomemiii, comprising all the species of the British list. 

 Mr. W. E. Collinge, a small moth from the Fiji Islands, where it has 

 been doing serious damage to the cocoa-nut palms, together with the 

 larvae and pupfe, and cocoons of the same. He said that so serious 

 was the damage, that in one large wood all the leaves hung down as 

 if dead ; unfortunately he could not yet give its name. — Mr. G. H. 

 Kenrick showed various butterflies, including some fine Danaidfe, 

 Acr£einfe, &c., from New Guinea, Thursday Island, the Loyalty Islands, 

 &c. — CoLBRAN J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 February 1th. — Mr. Henry A. King, of " Oakleigh," Coolhurst Road, 

 Crouch End, was elected a member of the Society. — Exhibits : — Mr. 

 A. Bacot, preserved larvae of Lasiocampa tjuercus and subspecies 

 callnncE, vieridianalis, spartii, and sicula ; also examples of hybrid 

 larvffi, spartii X vieridianalis, spartii x callunce, callunce X meridianalis, 

 and sicula x {spartii x meridianalis). — Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, pre- 

 served larvae representing over two hundred species, including Aporia 

 cratagi, Eremobia ochroleuca, Phloyophora empyrea, and Cucullia absinthii. 

 — Mr. A. W. Mera, preserved larvaB of Amphidasys betularia from one 

 brood, those fed on birch being brown, and those on sallow, green. — 

 Messrs. Sequeira, Shaw, and Clark also exhibited preserved larvae, 

 TrijjJiana subsequa being among those shown by the latter. 



February list. — Rev. C. R. N, Burrows exhibited Nonagria neurica 

 from Mucking, Cambridge, and East Kent ; and one example of ab. 

 hessii from Rainham. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, N. neurica (Hb.), and .V. 

 dissoluta (Tr.) var. arundineta (Schmidt), received from Herr Pungeler, 

 of Aachen ; also N. neurica and ab. hessii, from various English 

 localities, with ova, larvae and pupae. — Mr. F. Capel Haubury, Leucania 

 brerilinea, including a specimen closely approaching var. bdmea. — Mr. 

 W. J. Kaye, bred Zonosoma pendularia from Reading, showing a strong 

 central pink band, and var. subroseata from Staffordsiiire. — Mr, A. 

 Harrison, Oporahia dilutata from the New Forest, the pale form com- 

 monly distributed over the country ; from Epping, generally darker 

 and with little or no trace of the band on fore wings ; and from 

 Delamere Forest still darker, but with the bands distinctly marked. — 

 Mr. A. W. Mera, .V. neurica from Cambridge and Mucking, and Mr. 

 L. B. Prout, ab. liessii, from East Kent. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten read a 



