272 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



was also offered for the best mode of taking the honey with- 

 out destroying the bees. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two specimens of Limenitis Sibylla, 

 negroes, entirely black on the upper side ; and three speci- 

 mens of Polyommatus Adonis, one of which, a male, was 

 remarkable for its extremely small size, another bore on the 

 under side of the fore wings a number of broad bars of black, 

 whilst the third, a female, was partly coloured like the male, 

 the upper surface of the wings being dashed with bright blue, 

 not shading off" into the brown, but clearly and sharply 

 defined. 



Mr. Button exhibited a Catocala Fraxini, captured in an 

 empty house at Eastbourne in August last. 



Mr. Edward Saunders sent for exhibition a specimen of 

 Crambus myellus {Hiibner), a species new to Britain. It was 

 found by Mr. N. E. Brown, on a blade of grass, near Aber- 

 deen, in July last, and was nearly allied to C. pinelellus. 



January 4, 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two diminutive specimens of Vanessa 

 Urlicae, about half the usual size of the butterfly; they were 

 two out of fifty or more dwarfs, not all of the same brood of 

 larva?, which, owing probably to the extreme heat of 1868, 

 had been developed with remarkable rapidity, having re- 

 mained less than a week in the chrysalis state. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a dark variety of the female Apa- 

 tura Iris, and a very pale variety of Hesperia Comma. 



Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited a specimen of Crambus myel- 

 lus, captured by Mr. Adam Boyd some time since near Blair 

 Athol, and which had remained mixed in Mr. Bovd's col- 

 lection with C. pinetellus, until his attention was called to it 

 by the announcement at the previous Meeting. 



The Secretary exhibited photographs of nests of Vespa 

 Britannica and V. arborea, presented to the Society by Mr. 

 John Hogg, by whom the nests were found at Norton, 

 Durham. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a series of drawings of bees and 

 wasps and their respective nests, and a number of the actual 

 nests, collected in India by JNIr. Charles Home. 



Mr. Home (who was present as a visitor) gave some inte- 

 resting details on the habits of the insects. The species of 



