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Enodia hyperanthus* irom Carlisle and Chattenden to show the contrast 

 in the ground colour, the former being of a grey appearance, while 

 the latter were deep and rich ; a larva of H eterogenea limacodes from 

 Westerham ; and larvte of Acidalia immorata from Alpine ova. Ee- 

 ferring to the latter, he remarked upon the undoubted Acidalia-\i^Q 

 habits and appearance of the larvse, and said that they fed readily 

 upon knotgrass. Mr. West, of Greenwich, specimens of the local 

 Hemipteron. Dictrjonota fuliginosa, taken on broom at Plumstead. Mr. 

 Adkin, series of Satynis semele, from Eastbourne and Bournemouth, for 

 comparison, with examples set to show their natural resting positions 

 on the ground. Mr. Tutt remarked that allied continental species had 

 precisely the same habits. Mr. Lucas, specimens and drawings of the 

 scarce dragonfly Ai/rion mercuriale, which he had taken in the New 

 Forest. Mr. Dennis, under the microscope, ova of both Polyommatus 

 corydon and Plebins agon, the former of which had not yet been de- 

 scribed. Mr. Tutt, a cabinet drawer containing a long series of Erehia 

 nerine and its near allies, together with photographs of the famous 

 Mendelstrasse, in illustration of a paper, entitled, " A Gregarious 

 Butterfly, Erebia nerine, a Keminiscence of the Mendelstrasse, with 

 Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Serpents of the Mendelstrasse," which 

 he read. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — August IQth, 1897. — Mr. G. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. Mr. Bradley showed 

 lEschna grandis from Sutton, and said that it was quite unusually 

 common there this year both in the park and in his garden ; also Molo- 

 philus murinus from his garden, where he had taken a fair series this 

 year, though it had not occurred there before. Mr. E. H. Martineau 

 showed larvae, pupge, and imagines of Authophora f areata, to illustrate 

 its life-history ; also Salius fuscus from Wyre Forest, with a large 

 spider it had captured ; Mimesa bicolor, male and female, from Coles- 

 hill ; and Ammophila sabulosa from Wyre Forest. He also said, 

 a propos of a note by Mr. E. Saunders in the July number of the Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. on "Muscular Energy in a Tipula Leg after Death," that 

 he had watched a dissevered leg of a harvest bug (Acarin^) move 

 spasmodically round a plate for thirty-five minutes. He also stated 

 that he once removed the body from a living wdsp, and then supplied 

 it with liquid food ; it drank up the food until it had deposited a large 

 bead of it behind. He then attached a cork body to it, and the insect 

 flew across the room, though of course badly and not straight, as the 

 balance could not be restored. Mr. J. W. Moore showed a little lot of 

 Lepidoptera from the Fens, where he had collected them last Whitsun- 

 tide, which included Senta maritlma with var. wismariensis, a fine series 

 of Leucania obsoleta, a single Tapinostola elymi, Acronycta leporina, 

 Lithosteye griseata, &c. ; also, from Scotland, Arctia fuliyinosa, bred 

 Hadena 2nsi which were small, dark, and more marbled than usual, 



* It is quite possible that liyperanthus is not strictly congeneric with Epinephele 

 ianim and E. tithomis, but still it is probably more correct to keep it in that genus 

 than to place it in Enodia. Scudder (Butt. New Engl. i. p, 176), m his remarks on 

 Enodia, states that the genus " is confined to eastern North America, where it is 

 represented by a single species," i.e. E. portlandica, Fab., =^ andromacha, Hiibn., a 

 very different looking insect to the European E. hyperantlius. — Ed. 



