48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
SOCIETIES. 
ENToMoLoaicaAL Socrety or Lonpon. — January 20th, 
Anniversary Meeting—Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., President, in 
the Chair. An abstract of the Treasurer’s accounts was read by 
Mr. Stainton, one of the Auditors; and the Secretary read the 
Report of the Council. The following gentlemen were then 
elected as the Council for 1886 :—President, Robert McLachlan, 
F.R.S.; Treasurer, Edward Saunders, F.L.8S.; Secretaries, 
Herbert Goss, F.L.8., and William Ward Fowler, M.A., F.L.S.; 
Librarian, Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. Other members of Council, 
T. R. Billups, Edward A. Fitch, F.L.8., F. DuCane Godman, 
MA. FUR.S., W. EF. Kirby, #5. Poulton, M.Ax.G:S., sae 
Stainton, F.R.S., Samuel Stevens, F.L.S., and J. Jenner Weir, 
F.L.S., F.Z.S.. The President delivered an address, and a 
vote of thanks to him was moved by Mr. Stainton, and seconded 
by Mr. Pascoe, and the President then replied. A vote of 
thanks to the officers was moved by Mr. Dunning and seconded 
by Mr. Distant, and Messrs. Saunders, Fitch, Kirby and Grut 
replied.—H. Goss. 
THE Souta Lonpon EnromonoeicaL AnD NatTurau History 
Socrery.—January 21st, 1886.—R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in 
the Chair. Mr. Frohawk exhibited specimens of the curious 
ichneumon Alysia manducator, Panz., bred from the coleopteron 
Creophilus maxillosus, L. Mr. Billups exhibited male and female 
specimens of Sirex gigas, L., belonging to the family Siricide, 
and remarked that the larva were very destructive to wood, more 
especially fir plantations, and cited many instances to show the 
great rapacity and strength of the mandibles of these destructive 
creatures. This gentleman also exhibited specimens of the 
ichneumon Fhyssa persuasoria, a species parasitic on the Sirex. 
Mr. South exhibited specimens of Noctua castanea (neglecta) 
from the New Forest and two localities in Perthshire, and said 
those from the New Forest were gray, with an ochreous tinge, and 
were the true neglecta ; whilst those from Perthshire were either 
gray with a reddish tinge, or of a decided chestnut colour, the 
chestnut-coloured specimens being the castanea of Esper, and 
the reddish tinged gray examples connecting the true-named 
forms. Other interesting exhibitions and remarks were made by 
various members.—H. W. Barker, W. A. PEARCE. 
