34 C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President: J. C. Salter, Esq. 



THE (oUowing gave in their names as intending collectors. 

 Samuelson, Jenkins, Martin, H. Moore, R. Bignell, Gatacre, 

 H. C. Dickenson and E. G. Studd. Only two, Moore and 

 Bignell, sent in prize collections : the former's were nicely 

 set, but the number of varieties were small; while Bignell's collection 

 was perhaps the best in some ways that was ever sent in, containing 

 about twenty varieties of Butterflies (including a large Tortoise-shell), 

 and no less than eighty-eight different moths. The feature of the 

 year was the large number of Red Admirals and Humming Bird 

 Hawk moths : also, in places, of Clouded Yellows {Colias Edusa). 



Amongst the Prize collection will be noted — Aphomia Socielia 

 (or Colonelld); this is the only British species. Forewings reddish, 

 white or grey : costa greenish, marked with dark zigzag transverse 

 lines, and dark dots near the middle; hind wings grey ; the cater- 

 pillar lives in wasps' or humble bees' nests, and remains there in the 

 larval state. This specimen was caught at a lamp-post towards the 

 end of August. 



THE PRIZE COLLECTION OF MOTHS & BUTTERFLIES, 



COLLECTED BY BIGNELL. 



(*Means that the specimen was caught near Cheltenham.) 



SPHINGES. 

 "Privet Hawk . . . . . . Sphinx Ligustri. 



•Poplar Hawk .. .. .. Smerinthus populi. 



