216 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Dianthecia capsincola, Fues., Hupithecia linariata, Fb., EH. vir- 
gaureata, Dbl., E. pumilata, Hb., EH. rectangulata, L., and Botys 
terrealis, Fr., all bred by following the instructions given by 
Mr. Carrington for collecting the larve (Hntom. xviii. 148). 
Mr. Gaskell, a variety of Hmaturga atomaria, L., taken at West 
Wickham. Mr. J. T. Williams, a striking variety of Abraxas 
grossulariata, L.; a specimen of Cabera pusaria, L., irradiated 
with black ; a pretty form of C. exanthemata, Scop.; a bred series 
of Acidalia strigilaria, Hb., from Folkestone; and Dasycera 
olwierella, Fb., from Foots Cray. Mr. T. Gibb, jun., Asthena 
blomeri, Curt., Hepialus velleda, Hb., var. carnus, St.; and a 
fine variety of Melanippe montanata, Bork., all taken by himself. 
Mr. Adkin, living larve of Notodonta trepida, Esp. Mr. South, 
varieties of Boarmia repandata, L, and a long series of Aphomia 
sociella, L., some having been bred from the cocoons found by 
Mr. Williams, and which were exhibited at a meeting of 
the Society (Kntom. xix. 191), and the remainder from larve 
which had pupated amongst a bundle of sticks. Mr. South 
communicated some interesting notes on this species, and 
remarked that he imagined the group of cocoons found by Mr. 
Williams was the natural mode of pupation of the species, and 
those in the sticks being the method adopted in confinement, 
Mr. Billups exhibited specimens of Cleptes nitidula, Latr., taken 
at Benfleet in Essex, July 5, 1886, on the umbelliferous bloom of 
the common cow-parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium), and stated 
this was a very local species, and was probably the rarest of the 
twenty-two species comprising the family Chrysidide ; also larve 
of Geometra papilionaria, L., and its parasite Apanteles rubripes, 
Hal.; the larva was still living, although the parasites, to the 
number of nineteen, had emerged more than a fortnight before; 
neither had it eaten any food since then. The Secretary read 
a letter from Mr. Perkins, a former President of the Society, 
as to the capture by his nephew of a probable Sesia andreniformis, 
Lasp.; and Mr. J. T. Carrington made a communication as to 
the mode of working for this insect at privet-blossom.—H. W. 
Barker, W. A. PEARCE, Hon. Secs. 
