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slides, made mainly from his own photographs.—Mr. Step, a photo- 
graph by Mr. West (Ashtead), of the ‘‘ furniture mite” Glyciphagus 
cursor. 
January 22nd, 1914.—Annual Meeting.—Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.5., 
President, in the chair.— The Balance Sheet and Report of the 
Council were received and adopted, and the Officers and Council for 
the coming year were declared elected.—The President read his 
Annual Address, and after giving an account of the present status 
of the Society, dealt at considerable length with some phases of 
his special study of the ova of Lepidoptera, particularly wild-laid 
ova.—The usual votes of thanks were accorded, and the new Presi- 
dent, Mr. B. H. Smith, took the chair.—Mr. Newman exhibited a 
small specimen of Leucania pallens, taken at sugar at Newark, with 
three well-developed antennze, of which one was much thicker than 
usual, and towards the tip was bifid.— Hy. J. Turner, Hon. 
fiep. Secretary. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL Society.—Annual 
Meeting of the Society held at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, 
Liverpool, December 15th, 1913, the President, Mr. F. N. Pierce, in 
the chair—Mr. John M. Wilding, 52a, Orrell Lane, Liverpool, was 
elected a member of the Society.—The following members were 
elected Officers and Council for next year, vzz.:—President, R. Wild- 
ing; Vice-Presidents, F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., R. Newstead, F.R.S., 
M.8c., J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S., H. R. Sweeting, M.A.; Hon. 
Treasurer, J. Cotton; Librarian, F. N. Pierce; Hon. Secretary, 
Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S.; Council, L. West, H. 8. Leigh, F.E.S., 
A. EK. Gibbs, F.L.8., F.H.S.; A. W. Boyd, M.A., F.E.S., C. E. Stott, 
P. F. Tinne, M.A., §. P. Doudney, Wm. Webster, R. S. Bagnall, 
H.L.S., F.E.S.—Mr. F. N. Pierce delivered the Presidential Address, 
taking for his subject ‘‘ The Hairs and Scales of Lepidoptera.” The 
President described in detail his original observations upon this 
branch of insect morphology, and illustrated the same by many 
drawings and microscopic preparations. In the course of his remarks 
he described a difference he had found between certain scales in 
Tephrosia crepuscularia and biundularia for exhibition, and stated 
that this was the only difference of a structural character he had been 
able to discover in these two species.—Mr. R. Wilding brought a 
specimen of Hubolia bipunctaria for exhibition, and stated that it 
was taken by himself so long ago as July, 1880, but he had never 
before recorded it. Captured at West Kirby, this is the second 
record of this unlikely moth for our two counties.—Dr. J. Cotton 
showed a number of colour photographs of Lepidoptera by the Paget 
process, and pointed out the advantages of these plates over the 
older processes.—Wwm. Manssrinag, Hon. Sec. 
THE MaAncuEesteR EnromonoeicaL Sociery.— Meetings held in 
the Manchester Museum.—October 1st, 1913.—The following exhibits 
were made :—Mr. R. Tait, Junr.: a long series of Abraxas grossu- 
lariata varieties bred during 1913, including var. varleyata; a fine 
series of the melanic variety of Boarmia repandata from Penmaen- 
mawr, bred in 1913; a series of Geometra papilionaria bred from 
