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January 11th, 1898.— The President in the chair. Mr. R. C. Bradley 

 showed Therioplectes snlstitialis, taken before 8 a.m., hovering in the 

 road opposite his house at Sutton. Mr. A. H. Martineau showed a 

 set of specimens illustrating the life-history of Andrena cineraria, L. : 

 larvae young and full-fed, pupa, pupal skin, cells, and male and female. 

 Mr. P. W. Abbott, a series of Bryophila glandifera from Devon, one 

 very beautiful specimen being of a much richer and more beautiful 

 green than usual, with the markings softened considerably. Also a 

 Lyccena agon with the red marks gone from right upper wing, and blue 

 shadings over them all ; and a L. bellargus (female), also shot with blue; 

 both from Midhurst, Sussex. Mr. G.*T. Bethune-Baker, two drawers 

 of the genus Colias, from his collection, containing many rare species. 



February 1th, Annual Meeting. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker in the 

 the chair. The Annual Reports of the Council, Treasurer, and 

 Librarian were received, and the Officers and Council elected, Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker being elected President ; Mr. P. W. Abbott, Vice- 

 President ; Mr. R. C. Bradley, Treasurer; Mr. A. H. Martineau, 

 Librarian ; and Mr. C. J. Wainwright, Secretary, Mr. P. W. Abbott 

 exhibited Hemerophila abruptaria, one of the ordinary pale form, from 

 Sutton Park, the remainder from North London, all more or less 

 dark ; one of these latter was taken on the door of a coal-cellar, and 

 was very dark, quite evenly suffused with dark umber, with the black 

 transverse markings clear, and a trace of some of the light lines 

 showing; the remainder were bred by Mr. W. A. Southey, and one 

 of them was as dark as the caught one, the others showing the usual 

 arrangement of colours and markings, but being generally darker ; the 

 thoraces remained light in the darkest specimens. Mr. R. C. Bradley 

 showed Diodontus tristis (a male and two females) ; one Pemphredon 

 lethifer (male) ; one Psen pallipes (female) ; and Sphecodes pilifrons 

 (male), all from Sutton, 1897. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Annual Meeting, 

 January 10th, 1898. — The following officers were elected : — President, 

 Mr. S. J. Capper ; Vice-president, Mr. B. H. Crabtree; Joint Secre- 

 taries, Messrs. F. N. Pierce and the Rev. R. Freeman ; Hon. Treasurer 

 and Librarian, Mr. H. Locke. The members of the Council elected 

 were :— Mr. W. E. Sharp, Dr. J. W. Ellis, F.E.S., Rev. A. M. Moss, 

 Dr. H. Bailey, and Mr. F. C. Thompson. The following candidates 

 were elected by ballot : — F. M. Saxby, D. Armstrong, E. G. Isaac, 

 Albert Tipping, and William Perkins. In the course of the evening 

 the President, Mr. Samuel J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., a veteran 

 naturalist, delivered his annual presidential address. It was a very 

 exhaustive and interesting treatment of entomological subjects. He 

 remarked that the past year had left an encouraging record, The 

 papers read at the Society had been excellent, and the discussions 

 most interesting, while at the same time the number of members had 

 increased. They should have liked to have seen a more regular 

 attendance at all the monthly meetings, for while some had been 

 crowded, others had been quite the reverse. Dealing with entomo- 

 logical literature, the President said that previous to the last few years 

 that class of literature had been almost wholly devoted to systema- 

 tising ; and further, the various systems of classification that had from 



