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and freshwater snails that was made ; and various other matters of 

 interest. He exhibited series of some of the Lepidoptera and shells 

 taken, in illustration of his remarks. Mr. Carpenter stated that 

 he had examined numerous specimens of Pyrameis cardui in the 

 spring, and found they were invariably females. He suggested, since 

 he found no developed ova in them, that they were infertile, and that 

 had they been paired they would not have emigrated. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Report Sec. 



Carlisle Entomological Society. — December 7th, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 B. Routledge in the chair. — The evening was devoted to the study of 

 the genus Apion. Twenty-five species have been taken by the members 

 of this Society round Carlisle. The following species were common : — 

 affine, apricans, dichronm, ebeninum, ervi, hmnatodes, humile, nigritarse, 

 seniculum, ulicis, violaceiim, virens. Locally common : — asthiops, car- 

 duorum, ononis (at Silloth), puncticierum, striatum. Scarce : — gyllenhali, 

 loti, stolidum., vicice. Also radiolus, speiicei, marchicum, and ussimile have 

 been taken in the neighbourhood. The following have also been 

 recorded : — Apion cerdo, banks of Irthing (Bold) ; ceneum (Stephens, 

 lUust.) ; onopordi, lake district (Blackburn) ; hydrolapathi (Stephens, 

 Illust.) ; but have not yet been taken by members of this Society. — 

 G. B. Routledge. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — October IQth, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited 

 two specimens of a SoUnohia which he had previously exhibited as *S'. 

 ivockii, to which species they had been assigned by Mr. C. G. Barrett. 

 Recently, however, they had been sent to Mr. J. W. Tutt, who thought 

 they were a variety of ivccmspic^iella, and by him had been sent on to 

 Lord Walsingham and Mr. Durrant, who said they were certainly not 

 ivockii, but they did not quite know what to assign them to. Mr. Bradley 

 also showed a number of Brazilian butterflies. Mr. J. T. Fountain, 

 Lepidoptera obtained in the Valley of the Wye at the beginning of last 

 August. Amongst other species he found Apatura iris, not uncommonly ; 

 Thecla iv-album, common, but worn ; Vanessa polychloros ; Grapta 

 c-album, covumon; Triphana interjecta ; Tethea retitsa ; Catocala nupta ; 

 &c. Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, a short series of Tephrosia extersaria, 

 from Wyre Forest, where he said the species had been quite abundant 

 this year, although in previous years only odd specimens had been 

 taken by various members ; also a specimen of Vanessa atalanta, from 

 Cornwall, and one of Melanippie Jitictuata, from Handsworth, both of 

 which were remarkably small examples of their species. Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, a number of Erebias, including many examples of 

 E. blandina, from Britain and the Continent, and pointed out that the 

 Scotch ones showed more red than the Swiss ones. 



In the report of the meeting of August 21st (Entom. xxxii. 262), 

 it was stated that Leucauia straminea had been bred for the first time ; 

 this of course is a mistake, as there is a full description of the larva in 

 Buckler's. At p. 288, hne 16, the date 1884 should be 1894. 



November ^Qth. — The President in the chair. — Rev. C. F. Thome- 

 will exhibited specimens of Lycana bcetica, taken by Mr. Lowe, in 

 Guernsey, this year ; and said that there had apparently been a long 

 immigration of the species this year, as Mr. Lowe had taken about 



