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district. A paper was read, on Lepidoptera taken at sugar and light 

 in 1898, by Mr. J. E. Thwaytes. 



April Gth . — Mr. James Murray in the chair. Mr. F. H. Day exhibited 

 Coleoptera — Rhagium inquisitor, Ocypus brunnipes, Lampyris noctiluca, 

 from Keswick ; Rhizophagus cribratus, taken near Carlisle, from fir bark ; 

 Krirrhinus bimaculatus, Lesteva sicula, Dyschirius salinvs, taken on Easter 

 Monday at Burgh Marsh. Mr. Murray showed Saprinus maritimus and 

 S. ceneus, from Silloth ; Omosita discnidea and 0. colon, from Carlisle, 

 and Liodes humeralis, from Gelt and Newbiggin. Mr. H. Mawson, 

 Tephrosia bistortata and T. crepuscularia (biundularia), from a fir wood 

 at Portinscale, near Keswick. Mr. J. Wilkinson read a paper on 

 Mimicry. — G. B. Boutledge, Hon. Sec. 



Kendal Entomological Society. — February ISth, 1899. — The Pres- 

 dent in the chair. After the preliminary business, the Kev. A. M. 

 Moss made some remarks upon the early spriug Geometry, urging the 

 members to lose no time in at once restarting some active outdoor 

 work, aud then securing good series of some of the commoner species, 

 too often rather neglected owing to the hybernating propensities of 

 man at this time of year. He exhibited three drawers containing the 

 Amphidasydre, HyberniidaB, and Larentiidse, by way of illustrating the 

 species referred to, and a general discussion was enthusiastically joined 

 in. The exhibits also included a case of newly relaxed and set South 

 American Lepidoptera, by Mr. T. Smith, and a brightly coloured 

 specimen of one of the Pieridre from Singapore by Mr. Macrea. 

 Towards the close of the meeting, Mr. Moss made some suggestions 

 as to his method of blowing and preserving larvae. 



March V3th. — The President in the chair. Two new members were 

 elected. The Kev. A. M. Moss gave some practical hints on "sallowing," 

 and a keen discussion followed. Mr. Gra veson exhibited some fine Indian 

 and South American butterflies, recently relaxed. Mr. Holmes, an 

 exceptionally large male of Pkigalia pilosaria. Mr. Littlewood, many 

 specimens reared from ova and recently forced, including good series of 

 Euplexia lucipara, Xoctua plecta, Hadena thalassina, Smerinthus populi, 

 and 8. ocellatus. Mr. Smith, larva of Agrotis porphyrea. Mr. Wright, 

 a new relaxing tin of his own invention. Mr. Moss, a sample case 

 of the genus Tmiiocampa, and many other species to be met with at 

 this time of year. 



April 10th. — The President in the chair. A paper by Mr. H. B. 

 Prince, of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, was 

 read before the Society, dealing with some of his varied experiences 

 in 1898, and especially with his success at sugar on the Wallasey 

 sandhills, at a time when sugar was of no avail whatever in the Kendal 

 district, Mr. Moss reported having found apparently fresh remains of 

 an imago of Euchelia jacobace in an oak plantation on April 3rd. Mr. 

 Littlewood showed a fine series of recently forced I'ieris brassicce and 

 L J . rapes, and odd specimens of Sesia culiciformis, Eriogaster lanestris, and 

 several nocture. Mr. Moss, a drawer of Sphinges, and recent captures. 

 Mr. Wilkes, Amphidasys prodromaria. — A. M. Moss, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — March 13th, 

 1899. — The President in the chair. After the reading of the minutes, 

 the President reviewed the first volume of Mr. Tutt's new work on 



