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been chosen to fill the vacancy as Vice-President, and that Mr. H. 

 Moore had been elected on the Council. Mr. McArthur exhibited 

 underside varieties of hycana (Polyommatus) bellargus and L. (P.) 

 corydon, the latter being almost devoid of ocelli. Mr. Dennis, three 

 parts grown larvas of Callimorpha hera from ova sent by Mr. Tutt 

 while collecting in the Alps in 1897. They had fed all the winter. 

 Mr. Tunaley, long bred series of Retinia resinella from Aviemore. Mr. 

 Routledge, a variety of Epinephele (Enodia) hyperanthes from Carlisle, 

 having a broad whitish submarginal band on the under sides of the 

 hind wing embracing the ocelli ; and also two females of Acosmetia 

 caliginosa* taken in the same locality by Mr. Day. Mr. Lucas, 

 imagines and living nymphs of Calopteryx splmdens from Fleet, and 

 contributed notes on the specific characters and habits of the nymphs. 

 Mr. Adkin, specimens of Dianthcecia luteago var. barretii, from Howth. 

 Major Ficklin, a form of the same species taken in Cornwall, which 

 Mr. Tutt had named \a,v.ficklini. Mr. Tutt, on behalf of Rev. F. E. 

 Lowe, of Guernsey, a third form bred from pupa taken under Silene 

 maritima, and which he had named var. lowei. A considerable discus- 

 sion ensued on the singular variation shown in this species, practically 

 invariable in the same locality, but each locality possessing a distinct 

 race. Mr. Tutt also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Lowe, a fine aberra- 

 tion of Melanippe sociata, in which the central band of the wings w r as 

 almost completely obliterated ; and on behalf of Mr. Pearce, of 

 Hackney, all the melanic specimens of Hemerophila abruptaria bred by 

 him during the last three years, some dozens, including extremes and 

 intermediates, and one partially gynandrous specimen. — H. J. Tuenek, 

 Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Biemingham Entomological Society. — December 20th, 1897. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. Mr. E. J. Denham, 

 31 , Hugh Road, Small Heath, was elected a member. Mr. B. C. Bradley, 

 showed Hadena glauca and Anaitis plagiata, from Sutton ; and Ephestia 

 kuhniella, from his office in Digbeth. Mr. P. W. Abbott, a nice little 

 series of Cymatophora fluctuosa, taken in Wyre Forest, last June, 

 rather pale in colouring ; also a specimen of Sesia culiciformis with a 

 white band, also from Wyre Forest ; this last was a dark-black looking 

 specimen, darker than usual, excepting the band, which was white. 

 Mr. C. J. Wainwright, a box full of Aculeate Hymenoptera, including 

 four male specimens of Odynerus lavipes, from Wyre Forest, a rare 

 insect, which, however, seems well established in that locality ; 

 Andrena humiiis, a male from Wyre Forest, and some wide-banded 

 vars. of Apis mellifica, from Eisenach, Thuringia. Mr. A. H. Martineau 

 remarked that Mr. E. Saunders gives as a character of 0. Icevipes 

 yellow patches on both hind pairs of legs, but on all the Midland 

 specimens he has seen they were on the middle pair only. Mr. Mar- 

 tineau showed sticks containing the cells from which he had bred 

 several 0. Icevipes, from Malvern ; also sticks containing cells of Peni- 

 phredon lugubris, Anthophora fucata, Panz, and Osmia leucomelana. 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, two drawers of Pieridae, containing a fine 

 series of Anthocharis, including A. pechi from Algeria, and other rare 

 species, and the genera Zegris, Leucophasia, &c. 



* Hydrilla palustris, ante, p. 72.— Ed. 



