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oils, &c., aud that they had attracted great numbers of moths, includ- 

 ing many Zenzera pi/rina, which must have come a long way. 



April SOth.—The President in the chair.— Mr. E. C. Bradley 

 exhibited a species of Cheilosia taken at West Kunton in 1900, when 

 he aud Mr. Wainwright found it not uncommonly ; it had remained 

 unrecognized until now, but Mr. Verrall having sent some of them on 

 to Becher, it was pronounced by him to be vdutina, a species new to 

 Britain. — Mr. J. T. Fountain, a varied series of local Hybemia marcji- 

 naria, including one remarkably pale specimen, very pale and quite 

 bleached-Iooking, and somewhat under-sized, taken at King's Heath 

 on April 1st last. The majority were dark, tending towards fii^cata, 

 which is a common local form. — Mr. J. Simkins also showed H. mar- 

 fjinaria, including both light and dark forms, from Solihull ; also 

 specimens of Macrothylacia rubi, which he had succeeded in rearing by 

 forcing. He fed them on oak, hybernated them in moss out of doors, 

 kept them out of doors until January, and after waiting until they had 

 been frozen hard, brought them into a temperature of ninety degrees. 

 In two days they spun up, and in a fortnight emerged. He regarded 

 the freezing before forcing to be an important item in the process. 

 Whilst in the pupal state he teased them with drops of water ; they 

 would then work themselves from the bottom to the top of their long 

 cocoons rapidly, but as soon as the annoyance was over would drop 

 quietly and quickly back, in spite of their recurved spines ; he 

 wondered how this was managed, whether by chance the spines were 

 in any way retractile. — Mr. H. W. Ellis showed Amara nitida, from 

 Knowle, where it is not uncommon, though usually a very rare beetle. 

 — Mr. Gilbert Smith, a number of working drawers of larvae, &c., of 

 Coleoptera ; one showed a very remarkable larva, apparently of a 

 Lamiid beetle, but whereas Lamiid larvfe are quite legless, this showed 

 remarkable rudimentary legs, which was a new feature altogether. 

 Unfortunately the larva was unique and died, but as far as he could 

 tell it appeared to be near to Mesosa nnbila. — Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, a collection of Lepidoptera, made in the Lake District last year. 

 Also two moths which had previously been exhibited by Mr. W. E. 

 Collinge, and described as seriously destructive to cocoa-nut palms in 

 Fiji ; they had proved to be new, and to belong to a new genus of the 

 Syntomiidae. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 April Srd. — Mr. L. W. Newman, of Bexley, was elected a member of 

 the Society. — Mr. E. A. Cockayne exhibited Hybemia leucoplKEnria, from 

 Kichmond Park, including two melanic specimens ; also very dark 

 Nyssia hispidaria, from the siime locality. — Mr. G. G. C. Hodgson, a 

 cocoon of Zyyana ftlipendnUc, found on a hawthorn bush two feet 

 above the ground. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, a series of Anticlea badiata, bred 

 from Surbiton ova, the emergence extending from February 1st 

 to March 22nd, although the larvte pupated almost simultaneously. — 

 Mr. A. W. Mera male and female hybrids of Nyssia lapponaria x zonaria ; 

 several pairings inter se were obtained, but no ova resulted, despite the 

 fact that the females went through the actions of oviposition. — Mr. A. 

 Sich read a paper entitled, " A Contribution to the Study of the Micro- 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of the Loudon District," and laid before the' Society 

 a preliminary list of the Micro-lepidoptera of South-west London. 



