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Melitea, M. chaleedon, a Papilio rutilus, Anthocharis sara forms, 
Colias eriphyle, summer form eurytheme, Brephidiwn exilis, one of 
the smallest butterflies of the world, (Zycena) avalon, only found in 
S. Caterhina Island, 8. California, several Hesperiide, ete., and 
read a communication on the exhibit from Mr. Pearson.—Mr, 
T. H. L. Grosvenor, Papilio glycerion, and its races and allied forms 
from Sikkim and Thibet—Mr. B. 8. Williams, Lycena arion from 
Cornwall.—Messrs. H. Main and A. E. Tonge, photographs of 
items in life-histories of common insects and ova of Lepidoptera 
respectively. 
January 27th.—The President in the chair.—Annual Meeting. — 
There was a large attendance. After the formal business was com- 
pleted, the President, Mr. K. G. Blair, read his address ‘“ Insects in 
Winter,” and votes of thanks were passed. Ordinary Meeting.— 
Mr. Step exhibited a large locust found alive at large in Covent 
Garden with a small crowd of timorous watchers around.—Mr. 
Coppeard, a series of colour forms of the water-plant beetle Donacia 
sericea.—Mr. Turner, a box of Rhopalocera sent from near Port 
Elizabeth, South Africa, including the cosmopolitan Lampides 
beticus, a fine series of the Satyrid Leptonewra clytus and species of 
Pieris, Terias, Teracolus, Mycalesis and Panwphila.~—Mr. Lucas, the 
Neuropteron, Hemerobius stigma, now common on Esher Common. 
—Mr. Leeds, 177 different forms of male Polyommatus icarus named 
from the descriptions given in J. W. Tutt’s ‘ British Lepidoptera.’ 
—Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Editor of Proceedings. 
LaNCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE HNTromoLoGicaL Socrmry.—Meeting 
held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, November 
15th, 1920, the President, Mr. S. P. Doudney, in the Chair.—Mr. 
G. H. E. Hopkins, Shevington Vicarage, near Wigan, and Mr. A. R. 
Davidson, Foster Road, Formby, were elected members of the 
Society.—A paper was read by Mr. 8. Gordon Smith, F.E.S., entitled, 
‘A Year’s Collecting of Macro-Lepidoptera.”’ In this most interest- 
ing paper Mr. Smith related his experiences in pursuit of Lepidoptera 
from the autumn of 1919 until October of the present year. Dela- 
mere Forest came in for a good deal of attention, and by persistent 
hard work Mr. Smith has obtained some lovely sets of variable 
insects; he showed that Nyssa hispidaria, previously considered 
rare in the forest, was quite a common insect, and had further 
established, by counting a large number of moths on the trees, that 
Phigalia pedaria, var. monarcharia, occurred in the proportion of 
about one to three of the type in this locality. A large part of the 
paper was taken up with the results of breeding; large numbers of 
the larvee of the Vanessid@, in particular, passed through the cages 
and yielded some fine varieties. Probably the most interesting 
section of the paper was that dealing with the visitors to electric 
light. The author had installed a 2000 candle-power lamp on the 
balcony of his house overlooking the river Dee and the flat, open 
country beyond. Records of temperature and weather were kept 
and their bearing on the number of insect visitors noted. Zhamno- 
noma brunneata, Acronycta alni and its black variation, Cirrhedia 
xerampelina and Dicranura furcula were among the species that came 
