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under discussion. Mr. Tugwell said he thought Mr. Tutt’s specimens were 
castigata, and not virgaureata, but Mr. Barrett said four of them were 
certainly the latter species. On Thursday, Feb. 11th, Mr. H. Wallis 
Kew, will deliver a lecture entitled “* The Dawn of Memory in the Animal 
kkingdom.”—H. W. Barxer, Hon. Sec. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENtomoLoGicaL Socrety.—The annual 
meeting of this Society was held in the class-room of the Free Public 
Library, William Brown Street, where, although the weather militated 
against a large attendance, a most enjoyable evening was spent. The 
President, Mr. S. J. Capper, occupied the chair, and iu the course of his 
annual address referred to the entomological records of the past year, and 
ulso gave a series of most interesting personal reminiscences of his expe- 
rience as an entomologist for over fifty years. ‘This began at an Epping 
school, where Henry Doubleday did so much work, and helped the school- 
boys by naming and describing their captures. The President spoke of the 
progress of the Science since his first acquaintance with it, and the improve- 
ments in the mode of capturing and preserving specimens. He reterred 
also to the inauguration of the Lancashire and Cheshire Society, the first 
meeting of which was held at his house at Huyton, in March, 1877. He 
further enumerated the principal achievements of the past Session, which, 
he said, had been at least equal in good work to any previous Session. 
In conclusion, he remarked that it was to the younger members that they 
now looked for the further progress of the Society. Mr. Capper was 
re-elected President; and the Rev. H. H. Higgins, Vice-President. Mr. 
I’. N. Pierce (Hon. Secretary) and Mr. C. H. Walker (Hon. Librarian) 
were re-elected; the new members of the Committee being Mr. George 
Harker and Mr. C. K. Stott. During the evening the following specimens 
were exhibited by the members named :—Varieties of British Lepidoptera, 
the President; varieties of Hupithecia venosata, Mr. C.S. Gregson ; lite 
history of the bot fly, Gastrophilus equi, Mr. R. Newstead ; Phycis splendid- 
ella, captured at Wallasey, July, 1839L, Mr. H. B. Jones ; a tine web tormed 
by the larvee of Hphestia elutella, Dr. J. W. Ellis; and Scotch Dasydia 
ohfuscaria, Noctua sobrina, &c., Mr. C. EK. Stott—F. N. Pierce, Hon. See. ; 
143, Smithdown Lane, Liverpool. 
BremincHaM ENroMoLoGicaL Society.—Dec. 21, 1891.—Rev. C. F. 
Thornewili, V.P., in the chair. Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Agrotis obelisca, 
taken by Mr. A. J. Hodges in the Isle of Wight; also a specimen of 
Noctua c-nigrum, with which species Mr. Hodges says obelisca is often 
confounded on the sugar. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed Pyrellia lasiophthalmia 
from Sutton. Mr. Abbott read a paper on “A Holiday, collecting in tne 
Isle of Wight.” He worked specially for Agrotis lunigera, with considerable 
success ; but such was the danger of collecting on the cliff, where alone 
they are to be taken, that he advised others to leave it alone. He took 
many other good things, the method of capture of which he described, and 
the paper was illustrated by the specimens themselves. 
Jan. 11, 1892.—Mr. W. G. Blatch, President, im the chair. Mr. R. C. 
Bradley showed some Diptera, which had been shown at a former meeting 
as Pteropecila lamed, with the note that they had been confirmed as that 
species by Mr. Verrall. ‘They had since, at his request, been again sub- 
mitted to Mr. Verrall, and he names them as Jowoneura mulvebris, with the 
remark that damed is not yet recorded as british satisfactorily. A letter 
was read from Mr. OU, J. Fryer recording Stenamma westwood from 
