140 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



owing to the hast}^ and insufficient way in which the- structure of 

 these insects had been analysed. He added an analytical table 

 of about forty genera, many of those proposed being new. 



Erratum. — In Lepidoptera of South Buckinghamshire, p. 90, 

 6th line from foot, for N. rhomholdea read N. stigmatica. — J. 

 Seymour St. John. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of IjO^do's.— April Gtli, 1887. Dr. 

 David Sharp, M.B., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Francis 

 Galton, M.A., F.R.S., of 42, Rutland Gate, SW.; Mr. John 

 Henry Leech, B.A., F.L.S., of 10, Hyde Park Terrace, W. ; and 

 Mr. George S. Parkinson, of Percy Cross, Fulham, S.W., were 

 elected Fellows. Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited specimens of 

 Arctia mendica, collected in the county of Cork, by Mr. 

 M'Dowell, of Manchester. The peculiarity of the Cork form 

 of the species is that the majority of the males are as white as the 

 female of the English form ; and although smoky-coloured speci- 

 mens occur intermediate between the Irish and English forms, 

 the typical black or English form appears to be unknown in 

 Cork. Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a zinc box used by anglers for 

 the purpose of keeping living flies in, which he thought might be 

 adapted to practical entomological use in the field. Mr. George 

 T. Porritt exhibited a large number of specimens of Hyhernia 

 proge miliaria, bred from moths collected at Huddersfield last 

 spring. All the females and a large proportion of the males were 

 of the dark variet}^ /wscato, which formerly was almost unknown 

 in Yorkshire, but which now seemed likely to replace the paler 

 and original type. Mr. Jenner Weir and Lord Walsingham both 

 remarked that the number of melanic forms appeared to be on 

 the increase in the north, and suggested explanations of the 

 probable causes of such increase. Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., 

 exhibited several new species of Rhopalocera, taken by him in 

 the Solomon Islands during the visits to those islands of H.M.S. 

 'Espiegle' in 1882 and 1883. Amongst the specimens exliibited 

 were species of Euploea, Mycalesis, Messarus, Rhinopalpa, 

 Cyrestis, Diadema, Parthenos, Lampldes, Slthon, Pieris, Papilio, 

 &c. Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited a large and hairy lepidopterous 



