SOCIETIES. AT 
pairs of the South American genera Melinea and Heliconius, found 
flying together and assimilating to each other in colour.—Com- 
mander Gwatkin- Williams, aberrations of British Lepidoptera from 
Treland, including Epinephele jurtina, with banded hind wings, 
females; several Czdaria, which possibly may be C. concinnata, 
Xanthorhoé montanata, with band obsolete, confluent Anthrocera 
trifolit, Huchloé cardanunes, females with ochreous hind wings, &c.— 
Mr. Chas. Oldham, two collections of small chalk stones that he had 
collected within a small radius of the openings of two wasps’ nests, 
and which the wasps had been unable to carry to a greater distance. 
—Mr. A. W. Buckstone, for Mr. Archer, a bleached form of Angerona 
prunaria, male, from Oxshott; an almost black Lithosia helvola 
(deplana) from Wimbledcn; and an Acidalia which was supposed to 
be a very aberrant form of A. subsericeata.—Mr. H. Worsley- Wood, 
numerous forms of Mellinia ocellaris, including ab. lineago, ab. inter- 
media, with M. gilvago for comparison; yellow Brephos parthenias 
from Wimbledon, and lead-coloured males of Agriades thetis from 
Corfe.—Rev. J. Tarbat, black suffused forms of Brenthis ewphrosyne 
ab. nigro-sparsata of Abraxas grossulariata, and a Cidaria truncata 
with a broad-banded fore wing.—Mr. Haynes, a series of hybrid 
Selenia tetralunaria males and S. bilunaria females, with a large 
preponderance of gynandromorphous specimens; melanic and 
ochreous varieties of Hnnomos quercinaria, &c.—Mr. H. J. Turner, 
a series of Hrebia stygne from the Continent to show the extreme 
local variation in the Alps and Pyrenees.—Messrs. Sharp & C. W. 
Colthrup, many Colias edusa from the south-eastern district, re- 
presentative of the species in 1913.—H. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENToMOLOGICAL SocteTy.—October 
20th, 1913.—Meeting held at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, 
Liverpool.—The President, Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., in the chair.— 
Exhibitions were as follows:—Mr. W. Mansbridge brought a long- 
bred series of Hadena glauca from Burnley, some of which showed a 
strong melanic tendency; also from Burnley the melanic variation 
of Hmaturga atomaria, Hyria muricata, purple form, and Canonympha 
typhon var. rothliebiz from Witherslack; Nyssia zonaria from the 
Crosby Sandhills, and the insects captured on the occasion of the 
Society’s field meeting at Mold on June 7th, 1913, including Lobo- 
phora viretata, Cnephasia musculana, Capua favillaceana, Argyrolepia 
hartmanmana, and Agriopis aprilina (larva).—Mr. R. Tait showed a 
long and variable series of the beautiful melanic form of Boarmia 
repandata from Penmaenmawr, also bred Agrotis lucernea from the 
same district; varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, including ab. 
varleyata, bred from various localities in 1913; Aplecta nebulosa var. 
robsoni and Geometra papilionaria from Delamere; Hecatera serena 
and Calligenia miniata from Sussex. Mr. Tait also gave an account 
of his collecting holiday in Sussex, from which it appeared that 
Lepidoptera had been as difficult to obtain in the South of England 
as in the North during the past summer.—Mr. Johnson exhibited a 
long and fine series of C. typhon, including some very dark forms, 
from Witherslack; also Acizdalia fwmata, Nissoniades tages, and 
Lycena astrarche from the same place.—Dr. P. F. Tinne, various 
