99 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
SourH Lonpon Enromotocicat, anp Naturat History Sooimty.— 
November 26th, 1891.—W. H. Tugwell, President,in the chair. Mr. J. A. 
Cooper exhibited five specimens of Arctia caia, L., the red colour of the 
inferior wings being replaced by yellow. He remarked that from some 
thousand larve collected near Wanstead Flats, all of which had been fed 
under normal conditions, he had reared seven of this form, and that all 
emerged on the same day. As far as he could say, there were no atmo- 
spheric conditions which would account for the variation. It would be 
noticed that one of the specimens had a blackish fringe to the inferior 
wings. Messrs. Tugwell, Carrington and Tutt made some observations on 
specimens of this insect occasionally having the fringes and antenne of a 
blackish colour. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Sesia scolieformis, 
Bork., bred at Rannoch from a larva found there, and he remarked on the 
difficulties attending the rearing of the species. Mr. Tugwell thought the 
specimen was smaller than those that were obtained from Llangollen, and 
he suggested “ assembling” as a method of obtaining males of the species, 
as S. sphegiformis and S. culiciformis were taken in this way. Mr. Car- 
rington described the method Mr. Nicholas Cooke adopted to take his 
species, and also the plan Mr, Salvage followed. He also said the 
Rannoch specimens were always smaller than the Welsh ones. Mr. R. 
Adkin also exhibited a specimen of Huchloé cardamines, L., taken at 
Hayward’s Heath, having a distinct V-shaped mark below the discoidal spot 
on the under side of the primaries. Mr. C. G. Barrett remarked on this 
form of variation as occurring in so many species, particularly the genus 
Oporabia and in Selina irrorella, Clerck; the V mark was caused by the 
union of the black scales on the two divisions of the median nervure. 
Mr. C. Fenn pointed out that in the specimen of H. cardamines shown, the 
black scales were not on the divisions of the nervure. Mr. Short exhibited 
Acronycta pisi, L.; dark forms of Spilosoma lubricipeda; and several 
varieties of Melanippe fluctuata, L. Mr. Hawes, a living example of 
Polyommatus phleas, L., bred from ovum deposited 28th August, the larva 
pupating October 2nd, and, after being kept in a high temperature, 
emerging on the 25th inst. Mr. Hawes also stated that he had been 
endeavouring to obtain ova from various species of butterflies by lamp- 
light, and had succeeded with Pararge megera, L., and Pieris napi, L. 
Mr. Edwards, a saw-fly, Albia fasciata, from Oxted, and various species of 
Exotic Lepidoptera from India, Java, Brazil, and made remarks thereon. 
Mr. R. South, a series of Liparis monacha var. eremita, Ochs., bred from 
French larve, and remarked that it would be interesting to ascertain the 
distribution of this form; he had never taken it in England, although he 
was told it occurred in the New Forest. Mr. C. G. Barrett was of opinion 
that this suffused form did not occur in the New Forest, but it was found in 
the Midlands. Mr. Tutt said Miss Kimber had bred an exceedingly dark 
one from the New Forest, and Mr. Dobson had got a fine series of banded 
forms from the same locality. Mr. Tugwell thought that in Mr. South’s 
specimens the darkening arose from the ground colour being darker, 
whereas in English specimens it was a thickening of the black scales that 
caused the variation. Mr. Billups stated that the ichneumon bred from the 
cocoon of Attacus cecropia, which was exhibited at a previous meeting, was 
Eryptus eatrematis. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera 
from Eastbourne, and read notes relative thereto. Observations were 
made by members on collecting butterflies on dull days at rest; the 
Lycenide, Hesperide, and Papilio machaon and Melitea athalia were 
