300 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Melanippe fluctuata, Eugonia alniaria (tiliaria), Platypteryx hamitla (new 

 to the district ; one, Aug. 11th ; another by Dr. H. Dobie about the same 

 date), Scopula lutealis, Cataclysta lemnata, Tortrix ribeana, Scoparia mer- 

 curialis, Tinea tapetzella. 



September. — The moths began to thin off. Ampkipyra tragopogonis, 

 Epunda littidenta (two, a male and female ; a rare insect here). The 

 "heat-wave " which had so marked the summer returned Sept. 5th, but the 

 moths were only one each, on that date, of the following species : — Ancho- 

 celis litura, A. tragopogonis, E. lutulenta (one of the two referred to ; the 

 other I took Sept. 1st), and M. fluctuata. Continuing the list : — Hy- 

 drozcia micacea (one almost black), P.festuca (second brood), Tapinostola 

 fulva, A. litura, Nonagria arundinis (typha), X. ferruginea, A. pistacina 

 with the following varieties: (1) " lineola, ferruginous, nervures distinctly 

 paler "; (2) "ferrea, reddish, nearly unicolorous " ; (3) " serina, pale yellow 

 ochreous, nearly unicolorous" (Robson and Gardner); N.c-nigrum, Miselia 

 oxyacantha (with very dark forms), Phlogophora meticulosa, M. fluctuata, 

 E. fuscantaria, E. tiliaria, Thera variata, Depressaria ciliella. Earwigs, 

 spiders, caddis-flies, with an occasional beetle, which had all along come to 

 the lights, now began to get scarce. On Sept. 2nd a fine full-grown larva 

 of Acronycta alni was brought to me for identification. It had been found 

 feeding on sycamore. 



October. — A. pistacina, P. gamma (even to the end of the month), 

 Diloba caruieocephala, H. micacea, Dasypolia templi (one only, a fine fresh 

 female, taken Oct. 8th ; previous record, one specimen at Bidston Light- 

 house), P. meticulosa, M. oxyacantha', N. c-nigrum, Tethea retusa (one, a fine 

 fresh example, taken Oct. 24th ; another was captured by Dr. H. Dobie. 

 This species has not beeu previously recorded for the district, according to 

 Mr. A. 0. Walker's list). — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — November 2nd, 1898. — Mr. 

 G. H. Verrall, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. Ambrose Quail, of 

 Palmerston North, New Zealand, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 

 Mr. Merrifield exhibited some Melitcea aurinia from Touraine forced 

 and cooled as pupae, the latter being much the darker and more 

 strongly marked ; some Eucklo'e cardamines from Sussex, those cooled 

 havin^ the apices of the wings darker and the discal spots smaller 

 than those which have been forced ; and some Colias edusa from eggs 

 laid by two normal females taken in Savoy, two out of the five reared 

 being of the var. helice; the marginal border of one male, which had 

 been'forced, was very pale and much suffused with long yellow scales. 

 He also showed four Papilio mackaon ; two of them, forced as pupae, 

 had their dark parts very pale and their tails long and slender, the 

 two which had been cooled having the dark parts much extended in 

 area and darkened in hue, their tails being short and broad. These 

 results, which were to be obtained with winter as well as summer 

 pupae, corresponded with those previously obtained by Dr. Standfuss. 

 Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited two winter nests of Porthesia chrysorrhaa 

 from the Isle of Sheppey, where the species had lately become very 

 common. Dr. Mason exhibited a Buprestid larva found among Baltic 



