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members. On the chair being taken, Mr. Rd. Wilding, Vice-President, 

 extended a very cordial welcome to the visiting society, and expressed 

 the hope that tlie gathering of the two societies would become an 

 annual occurrence. Dr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., D.Sc, President of the 

 Manchester Society, in replying, heartily endorsed Mr. Wilding's 

 suggestion. — A communication was read from Mr. Rd. Hancock, 

 Handsworth, suggesting that a cabinet of entomological micro-slides 

 should be formed. It was unanimously resolved to adopt the sugges- 

 tion, and to accept with thanks the valuable series of fifty slides 

 accompanying his letter, to serve as a nucleus of the collection. — It 

 was announced that the next meeting would be held in the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, on November 21st. — This concluding the business, 

 refreshments were served, after which the following amongst other 

 exhibits were examined: — A;irotis ashicorthii, A. cuiathina, including 

 some beautiful red forms, and Epunda lichenea — all bred from Welsh 

 larvae ; Aplecta advena, Mamestra anceps, Xylophasia kepatica, Thecla 

 pruni, Phorodesma bajularia, &c., from Monkswood, Hunts, by Mr. 

 R. Tait, Jun. Bred series of At/rotis ashworthit, A. lucemea, Epunda 

 lichenea, and Boariiiia repandata from larvre taken during the spring in 

 North Wales ; bred series of Odontopera bidentata ab. w/V/ra from 

 Manchester larvae ; variable bred series of Hypsipetes elutata (sallow 

 form) from Windermere, &c., by Mr. B. H. Crabtree. Melananjia 

 yalatea from Northants and Dartmoor, and Cidaria testata from Epping 

 and Dartmoor, &c., arranged to show the unusual size of the Dartmoor 

 insects ; the blue form of Poiijoiitinatns (eijoii from Painton, by Mr. 

 H. R. Sweeting, M.A. Noctna castanea and the var. neijlecta bred from 

 Warrington larvae, Agrotis ayathina from Delamere larvae, Mamestra 

 abjecta, and Cri/ptoblabes bistriija, a pyralid moth which has only been 

 recorded five times from Lancashire and Cheshire, by Mr. J. Collins. 

 Series of Acidalia cuntiyuaria and Larentia ccesiata from North Wales, 

 Taniocampa opima from Wallasey, Leucania putrescens from South 

 Devon, by Mr. C. F. Johnson. Ayrotis aahivorthii, A. contiguaria, and 

 Zijgaina minos — one black form and also intermediate ones — by Mr. 

 Wm. Buckley. A long series of the rare coleopterou Animtoma duhia 

 from Crosby (1904), by Mr. R. Wilding. A series of the Central and 

 South European earwig Apterijgida media [albipennis, Meg. ), of which our 

 only former Britisli record is by Westwood, captured near Faversham, 

 and exhibited by Mr. A. J. Chitty ; LeucophiBa surinamensis, an exotic 

 cockroach which has been found breeding amongst turfs at Fallowfield, 

 Manchester, exhibited by the Secretary on behalf of Dr. Hoyle and 

 Mr. J. Ray Hardy. Fanchlora virescens and PeripUineta mnericana, 

 captured at Leyland by, and exhibited on behalf of, Mr. J. R. Charnley, 

 F.Z.S. P. anstndasice from Buxton, by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor. Labi- 

 dura riparia from Branksome (Major Robertson), and Boscombe (Mr. 

 J. R. le B. Tomlin), Apterggida arachidis horn. Bow, London (Mr. C. E. 

 Bedwell), Lncusta viridissima from Swanage (Mr. Tomlin), and Ilfra- 

 combe (Mr. W. A. Tyerman), and Xiphidium. dorsnie from the Isle of 

 Sheppey (Mr. Tomlin), &c., were exhibited by Mr. Sopp, who also 

 placed on view the series of very beautiful entomological micro-slides 

 executed by Mr. Richard Hancock. — E. J. B. Sopp and J. R. le B. 

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