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Eeigate. Mr. Patteson reported that a specimen of Deilephila livornica 

 had been taken at Limpsfield at light. Mr. Adkin exhibited a series of 

 Acidalia aversata, bred from ova laid by a female captured at Lewisham. 

 The whole brood were dull non-banded forms like the female parent, 

 and very distinct from the ordinary light form. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Rep. Sec. 



Carlisle Entomological Society. — August 3rd, 1899. — Mr. J. 

 Murray in the chair. Mr. Murray exhibited the following Coleo- 

 ptera : — Halyzia lG-guttata, from Orton near Carlisle ; Lathrimaum 

 unicolor, from Whitehaven ; and a specimen of the rare Carabus 

 glabratus, which was found under a stone on Castlecarrock Fell. Mr. 

 F. H. Day also showed a large number of Coleoptera : — Bembidium 

 femoratum, from the banks of the River Eden, near Little Salkeld ; 

 Orectochilus villosus, under stones on the River Irthing ; Cryptohypnus 

 dermestoides, Irthing ; also Hypera trilineata, Barynotus schonherri, and 

 Tropiphorus mercurialis, taken from among hay. Mr. J. Wilkinson 

 exhibited a very variable series of Epinephele (Enodia) hyperanthus, taken 

 at Orton. The specimens taken in Cumberland differ from those taken 

 in the South of England by the colour of the wings on the under side 

 being paler and sometimes with a yellowish tinge. Several of the 

 specimens had no rings on the under side, and only minute white 

 spots. — G. B. Routledge. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — August 21st, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 H. Kenrick in the chair. Mr. Kenrick showed a drawer of Pierines 

 from Thibet and other parts of Asia. It included several species 

 showing a gradual transition from Pieris to Aporia cratcegi, this being 

 particularly marked in Pieris deota. He also showed Agrotis ashwortkii, 

 bred from one of the only two larvaa he had been able to find at 

 Llangollen — the other being ichneumoned; also a specimen of Acronycta 

 menyanthidis from Edgbaston, which appears to be the first specimen 

 known in the Birmingham district. Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited a 

 specimen of Acronycta alni, bred from mountain ash at Sutton. Mr. H. 

 Willoughby Ellis said he had a larva sent to him this week from Brans- 

 grove, where it was found on maple. Mr. Ellis showed the following 

 Coleoptera: — Scolytus destructor and S. multistriatus; the latter was found 

 in some logs near Kingswood, and is a species which has not been known 

 in the Midlands before ; as however the logs had apparently been brought 

 to the place where they were found, they had probably brought the 

 Scolytus with them from some other district. He also showed Epurea 

 deleta from Knowle, and a fine variable series of Strangalia armata from 

 Haywood, Warwickshire, all taken this year. Mr. J. W. Moore, insects 

 from the Cambridgeshire Fens : Leucania straminea, four bred examples, 

 which he said were the first specimens of the species which anyone had 

 bred ; Leucania obsoleta (four specimens) ; a short series of Senta idva, 

 and one Moma orion (bred), all in grand condition. Mr. C. J. Wain- 

 wright, a fine long series of Anthrax paniscus, taken in Cornwall this 

 summer. He said that at first he had found them confined to one spot 

 of hot protected sand near the beach at St. Ives, where they settled 

 either on the hot sand itself or on blossoms of Daucus carota ; before 

 he left Cornwall, however, he had found them much more scattered at 

 St. Ives, occurring especially on Angelica sylvestris ; and also as far as 



