200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Kendal Entomological Society. — On July 11th the second meeting 

 of this Society was held in the Blue Coat School, and was very well 

 attended, twenty-five members being present. Three new members 

 were elected. Dr. Parker laid before the Society his scheme whereby 

 the Entomological Society, while retaining its independence, should 

 be recognized by the Town Council as one branch of a larger body in 

 the shape of a Natural History Society generally. He further stated 

 that the Town Council had handed over a room in Abbot Hall for the 

 exclusive use of the Natural History Society, and that the Education 

 Committee were generously prepared to provide funds for its mainten- 

 ance, such as lighting, heating, cleaning, and any necessary printing, 

 &c. He believed also that they would provide a cabinet in which a 

 model collection of the lepidopterous fauna of the district might be 

 made. Mr. Moss, in reply, thanked Dr. Parker for his suggestions, 

 and for the trouble he had taken on behalf of the Society, and suggested 

 that they should accept the offer, thus made, with gratitude. He 

 stated that by so doing the Society could lose nothing, but would 

 probably gain considerably by being recognized by the town, by 

 having efficient headquarters, and by associating with other branches 

 of natural science. Practically the only change would be that the 

 Society would hold its meetings in Abbot Hall instead of in the Blue 

 Coat School. The motion was put to the meeting and unanimously 

 accepted. The Rev. A. M. Moss then gave an elementary lecture on 

 the forming of a collection of Macro-Lepidoptera, urging the members 

 to have some definite end and aim in collecting, and not to collect 

 merely for the sake of amassing numbers of specimens, or for any low 

 and unsportsmanlike motive, which was contrary to the true spirit of 

 an entomologist. He emphasized the value of thoroughness in every 

 department of the work, if success was to be attained. Mr. Holmes 

 exhibited a case of Lepidoptera captured since the previous meeting, 

 embracing amongst other good forms a fine variety of Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata, in which the costa and outer margin of the fore wings were 

 almost entirely black. He also exhibited a nice series of newly- 

 captured and unset Erebia epiphron, from Bed Skrees. Mr. Inder, two 

 bred specimens of Acronycta menyanthidis, and some others. Mr. 

 Littlewood, a case of nicely-set insects, some recently caught, some of 

 previous year, and showing pupre-cases in several instances, a point 

 which it was hoped would be more universally adopted. Mr. Moss, a 

 drawer of hawk-moths and clear-wings, and a box of recent captures 

 and bred specimens, including a series of Nemeobius lucina, Procris 

 statices, It. yeryon, and Zygmna JUipenduUs, caught on a railway bank, 

 one with with only five spots, and two others with the middle pair of 

 spots much reduced in size ; also a specimen of Macroylossa bom- 

 byliformis, from the same place. Mr. Smith reported having just taken 

 var. hosjdta of Chelonia plantaginis on Bed Skrees. Mr. Whitehead 

 exhibited two E. epiphron, C. plantaginis, Scodiona belgiaria, and others, 

 taken in the Langdale district. Mr. Wright exhibited a specimen of 

 Bombyse rubi, Acronycta nonicis, and a specimen of Plusia inter royatiunis, 

 bred from a pupa found spun up on heather near Staveley. 



