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On Monday morning Messrs. Bacot and Quail were out early, but 

 did not take anything of note except a fine specimen of Acronycta 

 leporina. After breakfast the party set out to spend the day at Stubby 

 Copse, capturing on the way some fresh specimens of Tanaf/ra atrata 

 and two Nemeohins lucina. Larva-beating produced about half a dozen 

 PitcUocampa populi, two or three Astcroscoims sphinx, one TJtecIn qnercus, 

 and many other commoner species. Mr. Nicholson found a larva of 

 Limevitis sihijUa suspended from a grass-stem, ready to pupate ; and 

 Mr. Harvey found another A. leporina at rest on a fir-trmik. The 

 party then adjourned to New Copse Cottage for milk, and afterwards 

 wended its way back to Lynwood for tea, returning home the same 

 evening. — Lawrence J. Tremayne, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June ISth, 1895.— Mr. T. W. Hall, F.E.S., President, in'the chair. 

 Mr. Frohawk exhibited a dark leaden-blue var. of Lycccna helUtryus, 

 Eott., taken at "Weymouth in 1892. Mr. Perks, a Juhis taken among 

 bananas in Covent Garden. Remarks were made by several members 

 on the season, and a few records were made of the appearance of 

 Culiiis edusa, 



June 2,7th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Jjiger, a series of 

 Arctia luhricipeda, Esp., bred from r^Jm^r parents. Among them were 

 both var. radiata and var. fasciata, as well as some almost normal 

 types. Mr. Turner, eggs of the lace-wing fly. Mr. Dennis, a larva 

 of Catocala nupta, L. ; a pupa of Lyccrna argiolus, L. ; and a pale 

 specimen of Aryynnis selene, Schiff. Mr. West (Greenwich), speci- 

 mens of Cryptocephalus nitididus, Gyll. ; G. aureohis, Suf. ; and Elater 

 elonr/atulus, 01., all taken in Headley Lane on June 3rd. — Hy. J. Turner, 

 Hon. Report Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — June 17th, 1895. — Mr. R. 0. 

 Bradley in the chair. Exhibits : — By Mr. A. H. Martineau, Sino- 

 dendron cylindricnm, male, from Solihull ; Criorrhina asilica from 

 Trench Woods ; and some unusually fine specimens of Andrena rosce 

 var. trimmercma from Clifton Downs, By Mr. Abbott, a number of 

 Lepidoptera taken during a three days' trip to Wicken at the end of 

 May ; amongst others were Arsilonche albovenosa, Meliana flatnmea, 

 Kascia ciUalis, Acontia luctuosa, Myelophila cribrum, Earias chlorana, 

 Lithosteye yriseata, Hi/drelia uncula, Bapta taminata, and Phihdlapteryx 

 iiyuata. By Mr. C. J. Wainwright, fine series of Asthena hiteata and Eupi- 

 sieria hepurata from Cannock Chase. By Mr. Pi. C. Bradley, a number 

 of grassheads from Sutton Park covered with great numbers of Melcaio- 

 stnma scalare, which had been killed by a fungus. He found great 

 numbers, but only in a spot a few yards square ; and all were on the 

 grass flowerlieads only. There was only the one species too ; they had 

 evidently been attacked by the fungus and had then gathered together 

 at the one spot to die. While he was watching they continued to arrive 

 and remained to die. He also showed an ichneumon, the thorax of 

 which, when taken, was covered with bright red parasites of large size; 

 it made the insect look, when caught, as if it had a very large bright- 

 red thorax. The parasites seemed like beetle larva3. He also showed 

 a specimen of Crahro palnu^jes, with a cluster of eggs at the base 



