48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



portion of the meeting, as to the hest modus operandi. A hearty vote 

 of thanks was unanimously accorded. It was decided that the Annual 

 Meeting should be held in January, and that the President should at 

 that meeting each year present an Annual Report, to be subsequently 

 printed and distributed amongst the members, as a retrospect of the 

 yearly proceedings of the Society. An informal meeting for ento- 

 mological chat and discussion was held on Nov. 28th, and it was decided 

 to continue holding meetings of tbis kind fortnightly through the winter 

 months. Mr. Holmes and Mr. Littlewood exhibited recent captures ; 

 Mr. Graveson and Mr. Smith, cases of S. American Lepidoptera; and 

 Mr. Moss, some 1898 spring Geometrae from Eastham and Delaniere, 

 and a drawer of Hepialidaa and Cossidse. — A. M. Moss, Sec. 



Carlisle Entomological Society. — November 17th, 1898 (at Tullie 

 House). — Mr. G. B. Eoutledge in the chair. Mr. G. Wilkinson exhibited 

 Nephopteryx angustella (bred from the fruit of spindle) and Butalis 

 chenopodiella, both species from Surrey ; Sciaphila penziana from Unst, 

 and some Hybernias, including three specimens of H. marginaria var. 

 fuscata, captured in the district. Mr. M. Dixon, varieties of Melitcea 

 aurinia, and some Hymenoptera from the Carlisle district. Mr. F. H. 

 Day exhibited a box of Coleoptera, including Tropiphorus tomentosus 

 (mercurialis) , Barynotus mcerens, Erirrhinus bimaculatus, from around 

 Carlisle. Mr. G. B. Eoutledge, a fine specimen of Acherontia atropos, 

 caught at Gett Hall, Castle Carrock, the residence of Judge Steavenson, 

 on October 10th; also some Coleoptera from the same district, including 

 Quedius scintillans, Q.fulvicollis, and a Bembidium with red spots on 

 the elytra, which had been sent on to Mr. E. A. Newbery for deter- 

 mination, who, in returning it, said it was not B. littorale or B. saxatile, 

 as it was too small, striae too finely punctured for B. littorale, and the 

 thorax is not transverse enough for B. saxatile. Mr. Newbery had 

 specimens from the Swiss Alps, which were very similar, and which 

 he had doubtfully referred to Bembidium andrem, which so far has not 

 been considered British. The specimen exhibited was taken on Castle 

 Carrock Fell. Mr. G. Wilkinson read a paper on " Some aspects of 

 Variation." 



December Is*.— Mr. G. B. Eoutledge in the chair. Mr. F. H. Day 

 exhibited Coleoptera taken in the county : Carabus gldbratus from 

 Honister Crag; C. arvensis from Styehead and Honister ; Pterostichus 

 vitreus from Styehead and Skiddaw ; Clythra ^-punctata from Keswick ; 

 Liophlceus nubilus, Melanotics rufipes, Corymbites pectinicornis, Campylm 

 linearis, from Carlisle district. Mr. J. E. Thwaytes, a series of Agrotis 

 nigricans and Epunda nigra, which had been very abundant in the 

 Carlisle district this year ; also Taniocampa gracilis and Leptogramma 

 literana. Mr. Aitken exhibited Coleoptera — Grypidius equiseti, new to 

 the local list, from flood refuse on the Kiver Eden in 1896. Mr. Day 

 read a paper, " Entomological Eambles on Mountain, Plain and Shore," 

 mentioning the different species of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera he had 

 come acoss in the Lake district, round Carlisle and at Silloth, in 1898. 



December 15th. — Mr. John Wilkinson showed a series of Chesias 

 spartiata taken in October among broom near Carlisle. It was very 

 local, only occurring in two places. Mr. Mawson showed a specimen 



