92 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Fphruani ith. — Annual Meeting. — Mr. S. T. Bethune-Baker, Vice- 

 President, in the cbair. The annual reports of the Council, the 

 Treasurer, and the Librarian, were presented ; and the officers for the 

 ensuing year were elected as follows : — President, Mr. G. H. Kenrick, 

 F.E.S.;' Vice-President, Mr. S. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.E.S. ; 

 Treasurer, Mr. E. C. Bradley; Librarian, Mr. A. H. Martineau ; 

 Secretary, Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, 147, Hall Road, Handsworth, 

 Birmingham ; and other members of the Council, Messrs. P. W. 

 Abbott and W. Harrison. Mr. P. W. Abbott exhibited Vanessa poh/- 

 chloros, bred specimens, one of which was unusually pale, the border 

 showing a good deal of yellow, and several unusual yellow blotches on 

 the disk. — Colbran J. Wainavright, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — January lith, 

 1895.— Annual Meetinq.—Mx. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. The election of Officers resulted in the re-election of Mr. 

 Capper, President ; Mr. Stott, Treasurer ; and Mr. Locke, Librarian. 

 Mr. W. E. Sharp was elected Vice-President, and the Rev. R. Freeman, 

 Dr. Ellis, and Messrs. Jones, Gardner, and Wilding were elected for 

 the Council. Mr. Locke was elected Secretary, but on. his declining 

 the office, Mr. Pierce agreed to continue acting pro tern. The Presi- 

 dent, in thanking the members for his re-election, spoke of the pros- 

 perous state the Society was in, and alluded to the death of one of the 

 earliest helpers of the Society, Dr. Buchanan White. The balance- 

 sheet showed, for the first time for a number of years, a balance on 

 the right side, there being dEl 12s. Id. in hand. Dr. Forbes, Curator 

 of the Derby Museum, Liverpool, was elected an honorary member of 

 the Society. Mr. J. W. Tutt, of London, read a paper entitled 

 " Some Random Notes on the Romanes Lecture of 1894, entitled 

 ' The Effect of External Influences upon Development,' " in which he 

 criticised the remarks of Professor Weismann on the resting state of 

 insects as exhibited in the phenomena of hybernation and aestivation, 

 and showed the points in which he differed from the Professor. The 

 second part of the paper treated of the colour-variation of insects 

 considered biologically. The President exhibited a number of Scotch 

 Zygana exulans and southern forms of Polyommatus phJceas. Mr. Tutt, 

 a number of Zygsenas from the Alps and other localities. Mr. Rox- 

 burg, PoUa nigrocincta from the Isle of Man. 



Felruary 11th. — The President in the chair. Messrs. D. Walker, 

 Herbert Massey, and Harold Milne were elected members. Dr. H. H. 

 Corbett, of Doncaster, read " Remarks on some Varieties of Noctuina 

 from Doncaster," in which he described a number of local forms 

 occurring at Doncaster, illustrated by specimens, conspicuous among 

 which were a fine series of melanic Calocampa exoleta, and a fine 

 variety of AsphaJia flavicornis, in which the dark transverse lines were 

 very strongly marked. Mr. Mason exhibited a long series of Caradrina 

 amhigua from Freshwater, a gynandromorphous specimen of Argynnis 

 paphia, and a striking variety of Agrotis agathina, having the ground 

 colour' rosy. Mr. Sharp, a number of European Silphidae, calling 

 attention to the forms briinnea and subrotundata of Silpha atrata. — 

 F. N. Pierce & A. B, Jones, Hon, Sees, 



