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Vanessa urtica fixed to the under side of a small leaf towards the 

 summit of a nettle-stem. The cryptic resemblance of the eggs to their 

 environment was very remarkable. He also read a note on the court- 

 ship and pairing of the species. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited two 

 very interesting Erebias caught by the President on the Guadarrama 

 (near Madrid, Spain) on July 25th, 1902, at an elevation of probably 

 about 6000 feet. Though taken together, and very much alike they 

 proved to be of two species, viz. E. evias and E. stygne, both males. 

 Dr. Chapman remarked that the same two species wliich he found 

 last year in Spain, associated together and closely resembled each 

 other, which is not their habit in Switzerland. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited several species of the lepidopterous genus Coleophora, 

 and contributed notes on C. laricella, C. albitarsella, C. bicolorella, 

 C lineolea, C. vliiiinetella, C. niijricella, C. discordella, and C. ochrea. 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper on " Tropical 

 African Geometrid^ in the National Collection." — Mr. W. L. Distant 

 communicated a paper entitled " Additions to a Knowledge of the 

 Family Cicadid^." — The President communicated a paper by Mr. G. F. 

 Leigh, entitled " Synepigonic series of Fapilio cenea (1902-3) and of 

 Hypnlimnas misippus (1904), together with Observations on the Life- 

 history of the former," and exhibited specimens to illustrate the same. 

 — Mr. Edward Saunders, F.R.S., communicated a paper on " Hymeno- 

 ptera Aculeata from Majorca (1901) and Spain (1901-2)." — H. Row- 

 land-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March 21st, 1904. — Mr. G. 

 T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Piev. J. Harvey Bloom, 

 Whitchurch Rectory, Stratford-on-Avon, was elected a member of the 

 Society. — Mr. J. T. Fountain showed a series of Agrutis fimbria, bred 

 from larvae found at Marston Green in 1903 ; also Plwialia pedaria 

 from Highbury, where he found four on one lamp, and none others. — 

 Mr. Gilbert Smith, an aberration of Arctia cain bred some years ago ; 

 the two sides were unequal in size, and quite different in pattern. — 

 Mr. W. H. Flint gave an account of the genus Exipithecia, its structure, 

 allies, habits, and mode of capture, &c., with a detailed account of the 

 species. He exhibited his collection of the same, amongst which the 

 most interesting were insij/nata {condgnata), of which he took seven 

 specimens at Kingswood, Warwickshire, some years ago. 



April 18f/t.— The President in the chair.— Mr. W. H. Flint exhibited 

 a collection of the genus Diantlmda and some of its allies. Amongst 

 the more noteworthy species were D. compta, from East Ireland; 

 D. c(£da, from the Isle of Man ; D. albimacula, from Folkestone ; 

 D. irregularis, from Cambridge ; Cali/innla pgralina, from Kingswood; 

 C. diffinis, from Marston Green ; and a specimen of Valeria olcagina 

 from an old collection. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Ho7i. Sec. 



