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Vanessa urticcB fixed to the under side of a small leaf towards the 

 summit of a nettle-stem. The cryptic resemblance of tlie eggs to their 

 environment was very remarkable. He also read a note on the court- 

 ship and pairing of the species. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited two 

 very interesting Erebias caught by the President on the Guadarrama 

 (near Madrid, Spain) on July 2oth, 1902, at an elevation of probably 

 about 6000 feet. Though taken together, and very much alike they 

 proved to be of two species, viz. E. evias and E. sti/i/ne, both males. 

 Dr. Chapman remarked that the same two species which he found 

 last year in Spain, associated together and closely resembled each 

 other, which is not their habit in Switzerland. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited several species of the iepidopterous genus Coleophora, 

 and contributed notes on C. laricella, C. albitarse/la, C. bicolorella, 

 0. lineolea, C. viniinetella, C. nujricelia, C. discordelia, and C. oclirea. 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper on " Tropical 

 African Geometridfe in the National Collection." — Mr. W. L. Distant 

 communicated a paper entitled '■ Additions to a Knowledge of the 

 jFamily Cicadidse." — The President communicated a paper by Mr. G. F. 

 Leigh, entitled " Synepigonic series of Papiiio cenea (1902-3) and of 

 Htjpolimnas misippus (1904), together with Observations on the Life- 

 history of the former," and exhibited specimens to illustrate the same. 

 — Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., communicated a paper on " Hymeno- 

 ptera Aculeata from Majorca (1901) and Spain (1901-2)." — H. Row- 

 land-Beown, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March 21sf, 1904. — Mr. G. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, 

 Whitchurch Rectory, Stratford-on-Avon, was elected a member of the 

 Society. — Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a series of A/jrotis finibria, bred 

 from larvae found at Marston Green in 1903 ; also Phu/alia pedaria 

 from Highbury, where he found four on one lamp, and none others. — 

 Mr. Gilbert Smith, an aberration of Arctia caia bred some years ago ; 

 the two sides were unequal in size, and quite different in pattern. — 

 Mr. W. H. Flint gave an account of the genus Kupithecia, its structure, 

 allies, habits, and mode of capture, &c.. with a detailed account of the 

 species. He exhibited his collection of the same, amongst which the 

 most interesting were insi<inata {conslr/nata), of which he took seven 

 specimens at Kingswood, Warwickshire, some years ago. 



April 18th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. W. H. Flint exhibited 

 a collection of the genus Dianthcecia and some of its allies. Amongst 

 the more noteworthy species were D. compta, from East Ireland ; 

 D. ccBsia, from the Isle of Man ; D. albimacida, from Folkestone ; 

 D. irrenularis, from Cambridge ; Calymnia pyralina, from Kingswood; 

 C. dijfinis, from Marston Green ; and a specimen of Valeria oleatjina 

 from an old collection. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hoii. Sec. 



