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thought, at the lime I wrote, it would have been strange if 

 ants had not been on it at tlie time of separation froni the 

 main land, and seeing the great number there are on a rock 

 not far from it, I jumped to the conclusion that P. apterus 

 had exterminated them — although by what means I could 

 not exactly see. — F. Beynon; Torquay, June 4, 1877. 



MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of this Society was held in 

 the Small Lecture Hall, Borough Museum, Liverpool, on the 

 30th ult. The President in the chair. Mr. Nicholas Cooke, 

 the vice-president, read the following remarks respecting the 

 discovery and distribution of Nyssia zoiiaria : — 



" In the ' Entomological Magazine' (ii. 437), for the year 

 1834, the following notice of the capture of N. zonaria, 

 written by the late Edward Newman, appeared : — 



" 'This beautiful and remarkable addition having been made 

 to our British Lepidoplera, and Mr. Eveleigh, the President 

 of the Banksian Society of Manchester, supposing it to have 

 been an entirely new species, having most kindly brought to 

 town three specimens purposely for description in this 

 Magazine, among my " Entomological Notes," 1 immediately 

 submitted them to the notice of Mr. Stephens, who had 

 never seen anything like them before. 



"'I then applied to Mr. Children, whose entomological 

 library I knew to be unrivalled in this country, and who 

 with the most prom])t kindness, informed me the insect was 

 Zonaria, both of Hiibner and Duponchel, 



'"A single specimen of the male was taken on the rushes 

 about half a mile below Black-rock, near Liverpool, in Sep- 

 tember, 1832; and about the middle of tlie same month, in 

 the following year, from twelve to twenty specimens of the 

 same insect — both males and females — were taken in the same 

 locality. 



" ' The captor is Mr. Nicholas Cooke, of Liverpool. 



'"The following is the description of the insect :^=-The 

 female apterous with seven rings ou the body ;• the zone is, 



