192 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South Loneon Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— ilfa?/ Mth.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Sperring exhibited a short series of Pieris napi, from 

 Sligo, strongly tinged witli yellow. — Mr. Edwards, specimens of the 

 British Cicada, Cicadetta ^nontana, from the New Forest. — Mr. H. 

 Moore, Mayiduca atropos, from Durban. — Mr. Main reported that his 

 Scarabs were very busy trundling their balls of horse-dung, and 

 actively engaged in excavating their cells and other domestic matters. 

 June lUh. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. H. Moore, a field-cricket, Brachytryi^es mevibranaceus, and a 

 stag-beetle, Lzicamis, sp., from Durban. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, specimens 

 of Euchloe cardmnines, showing minor aberration. (1) Large ^, 

 from Cannes, intense orange patch, edged with yellow shade, and 

 reaching the anal angle. (2) A (^ , from Wisley, with apical blotch 

 extending nearly to anal angle, and about double in width by a cloud 

 of black scales. (3) A ? , from Boxhill, with very dark apical blotch 

 on fore wings and distinct discoidal dot on hind wings. (4) A $ , 

 from Amersham, with very light apical blotch, which was intersected 

 throughout by parallel bars of white. (5) A (^ under side, from 

 Oxshott, with basal half clear light yellow. Mr. Turner also showed 

 a copy of Jacob Christian Schaffer's work, date 1763, and called 

 attention to the coloured plates illustrating the life-history of 

 Parnassius a-pollo, including the eversible fork on neck of larva, 

 flimsy cocoon for pupation, structure of prologs, and details of the 

 curious copulatory pouch, mostly magnified. — Mr. Frohawk, the 

 Anosia jjlexippus, captui^ed last year in Ireland. — Mr. Dennis, a 

 stereoscopic slide of the bog-bean Menyanthes trifoliata, from Chelsea. 

 — Reports on the season showed that things were up to date and 

 generally common. 



June 28th. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. H. Moore exhibited the nest of a wasp, Icaria, sp., from Dema- 

 rara. — Dr. Chapman, a pair of living Clirysophanus dispar v. rutilus, 

 naturalised in Britain for three generations, and also specimens of 

 the egg- laying of the sawflies, Cladius viminalis, in the petioles of 

 poplar and of Lophyrus pint in a groove in needles of Pinus sylviatris. 

 — Mr. Main, living beetles from Sicily. — Mr. West (Greenwich), the 

 rare Heteropteron, Galocoris alpestris, from Cumberland, and a hving 

 larva of S taur opus fag i, from the New Forest. — Mr. Bunnett, larval 

 cases and living imagines of Coleoi^Jiora palUatella, from Croham- 

 hurst, and cases with an imago of the Psychid known as Fumea casta. 

 — Mr. Turner, varied series of Ccenonympha iphis, C. arcania, and 

 G. satyrion, including several of the named forms, and summarised 

 the current opinion as to the specific value of the three. — Remarks 

 were made by several members on the season. Members had seen 

 Golias edusa, Vanessa io, Pyrameis atalanta, larvae of Celastrina 

 argiolus, and second broods of Pieris rapce and P. napi. — Hy. J. 

 Turner (Hon. Ed. of Proceed.). 



