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Entomologise " (quarto, 1802), ^Yith some fine plates of the Lamelli- 

 cornia (Col.). — Mr. Leeds, a curiously discoloured example of Colias 

 edusa from Heme Bay. — The remaining exhibits were specimens 

 and series of Acidalia marginejnmctata, by Messrs E. Adkin, 

 Buckstone, Tonge, Ashdown, Mora, Bowman and B. Adkin, in illus- 

 tration of the paper on this species read by Mr. E. Adkin. In the 

 ensuing discussion the consensus of opinion was that the species was 

 a coast insect, and found, as a rule, only very sparingly inland. 

 Eeports of the season were made by several members. Most species 

 were late in appearance, although a few were quite up to their usual 

 date. Celastrina argiolus had been seen ; Breplios parthenias and 

 Gonepteryx rhamni had been abundant locally. Vegetation was 

 generally backward. 



April 24:th. — Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., President, in the 

 Chair. — Mr. Newman, a living female Xyloviyges conspicillaris from 

 Worcester, and a Cassida viridis (Col.), found on a thistle recently. — 

 Mr. Bunnett, a Papilio demolens from S. Africa and a Gatogramma 

 sp. — Mr. Edwards, Pajnlio cenea (merope) from S. Africa and several 

 forms of the female. — Mr. Buckstone reported that at Horsley he had 

 met with a number of females of Tephrosia bistortata with ovipositors 

 extended in crevices of bark in almost dying condition on a morning 

 after an unusually cold night. Eemarks were made on the lateness 

 of the season and the general scarcity of larvas this spring so far. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 



Carlisle Natural History Society. — January 23rf?, 1919. — 

 Mr. Marriner showed a selection of Coleoptera taken last season in 

 the Skinhurness district of the Solway Firth, including a short series 

 of Gymhiodyta ovalis, a species new to the Cumberland list. — The 

 Eev. H. D. Ford, a very small, obscurely-coloured Smerinthus populi 

 taken locally ; also pigmy examples of Gcenonympha pamphilus and 

 Bryophila perla, two specimens of Eitcosmia widulata hitherto very 

 rare in the county, a striking dark variety of Hyppa rectilinea, 

 and two yellowish Pieris ra,pce. — Mr. Day, a series of the new 

 British Hemipteron Orthotylus virens taken in numbers on the bay 

 willow, SbXidPhytocaris pini beaten in abundance from Scots pine and 

 spruce fir ; the bee Bomhus sylvanmi, new to Cumberland, and the 

 beetle Thalycra sericea, also new to the county. 



March 6th. — Mr. Hope exhibited six examples of Ghrysophanus 

 dispar, three of each sex, from the Carlisle Museum collection, 

 and a remarkably large and dark Manduca atropos, from the Crofton 

 Hall collection, now in the museum. — Mr. Day showed Nemophila 

 plantaginis from Portsmouth for comparison with Carlisle specimens, 

 which latter were much larger and darker ; also the var. hospita bred 

 from Skiddaw larvse ; locally taken pigmy examples of Drepiana 

 lacertinaria, Spilosoma fuUginosa and Arctia caja, and a specimen 

 of S. menthastria var. walkeri from Burgh-by-Sands ; also various 

 beetles showing extreme colour variation, including Corymbites aneus, 

 Anomala frischii and several species of Donacia. 



April Srd. — Mr. Marriner showed Nudaria mundana, a somewhat 

 scarce moth in the immediate neighbourhood of Carlisle ; a series 

 of under-sides of Pieris napi of the June broods which varied 



