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members. On the chair being taken, Mr. Rd. Wilding, Vice-President, 

 extended a very cordial welcome to the visiting society, and expressed 

 the hope that the gathering of the two societies would become an 

 annual occurrence. Dr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., D.Sc, President of the 

 Manchester Society, in replying, heartily endorsed Mr. Wilding's 

 suggestion. — A communication was read from Mr. Rd. Hancock, 

 Handsworth, suggesting that a cabinet of entomological micro-slides 

 should be formed. It was unanimously resolved to adopt the sugges- 

 tion, and to accept with thanks the valuable series of fifty slides 

 accompanying his letter, to serve as a nucleus of the collection. — It 

 was announced that the next meeting would be held in the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, on November 21st. — This concluding the business, 

 refreshments were served, after which the following amongst other 

 exhibits were examined: — Agrotis oshworthii, A. a/iathina, including 

 some beautiful red forms, and Ejmnda lichevea — all bred from Welsh 

 larvfe ; Aplecta advena, Mamestrn anceps, Xylophasia hepatica, Thecla 

 pnini, Phorodesma bajnhrin, &c., from Monkswood, Hunts, by Mr. 

 R. Tait, Jun. Bred series of Ajp-otis askworthii, A. Incernea, Epunda 

 lichenea, and Boarmia repandata from larvse taken during the spring in 

 North Wales ; bred series of Odontopera bidentata ab. m'ura from 

 Manchester larvse ; variable bred series of Hypsipete^i ehitata (sallow 

 form) from Windermere, &c., by Mr. B. H. Crabtree. Melanargia 

 galatea from Northants and Dartmoor, and Cidaria testata from Epping 

 and Dartmoor, &c., arranged to show the unusual size of the Dartmoor 

 insects ; the blue form of Poiyommatas (nyon from Painton, by Mr. 

 H. R. Sweeting, M.A. Noctua castanea and the var. neylecta bred from 

 Warrington larvae, Ayrotls a/iathina from Delamere larvse, Mamestra 

 abjecta, and Cryptoblahes bistriyn, a pyralid moth which has only been 

 recorded five times from Lancashire and Cheshire, by Mr. J. Collins. 

 Series of Acidalia contiyuaria and Larentia ccBsiata from North Wales, 

 Taniocampa opiina from Wallasey, Ijeucania putrescens from South 

 Devon, by Mr. 0. F. Johnson. Ayrotis ashtvorthii, A. contiyuaria, and 

 ZyycBiia niinos — one black form and also intermediate ones — by Mr. 

 Wm. Buckley. A long series of the rare coleopteron Anifiotoma dubia 

 from Crosby (1904), by Mr. R. Wilding. A series of the Central and 

 South European earwig Apteryyida media (albipeimis, Meg.), of which our 

 only former British record is by Westwood, captured near Paversham, 

 and exhibited by Mr. A. J. Chitty ; Leucophma surinamensis, an exotic 

 cockroach which has been found breeding amongst turfs at Fallowfield, 

 Manchester, exhibited by the Secretary on behalf of Dr. Hoyle and 

 Mr. J. Ray Hardy. Panchlora virescens and Periplanetu americana, 

 captured at Leyland by, and exhibited on behalf of, Mr. J. R. Charnley, 

 F.Z.S. P. austral asi(B from Buxton, by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor. Labi- 

 dura riparia from Branksome (Major Robertson), and Boscombe (Mr. 

 J. R. le B. Tomlin), Apteryyida arachidishom Bow, London (Mr. C. E. 

 Bedwell), Locusta viridissima from Swanage (Mr. Tomlin), and Ilfra- 

 combe (Mr. W. A. Tyerman), and Xiphidium dorsale from the Isle of 

 Sheppey (Mr. Tomlin), &c., were exhibited by Mr. Sopp, who also 

 placed on view the series of very beautiful entomological micro- slides 

 executed by Mr. Richard Hancock. — E. J. B. Sopp and J. R. le B. 

 Tomlin, Hon. Sees. 



