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be found abundantly. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, the two Ithomiines, Methona 

 confusa and Thyridia pddii, from British Guiana, and remarked on the 

 wonderful agreement iu colour between these two distinct species, both 

 there and in Paraguay. — Mr. Adkin, a very dark example of Amorpha 

 (SmerinthHs) populi bred from a larva taken at Bexley. It was con- 

 siderably darker than a Sutherland example in both the olive-grey of 

 the fore wings and the red patch of the hind wings. — Dr. Chapman, 

 specimens of Laaioptera rahi, a Cecidomyid that makes swellings in the 

 stems of bramble.. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a large number of species of 

 various orders of insects, collected at Amersham, Bucks, during a 

 week's holiday spent there at the end of June, 1902, and gave notes 

 on the fauna and flora of the district. — Hy. J. Turner {Hon. Rep. Sec). 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The Annual 

 Meeting of the above Society was held in the Royal Institution on 

 Monday, January 19th, when, in the unadvoidable absence of the 

 President, Mr. S. J. Capper, F.E.S., Dr. J. W. Ellis presided over a 

 large attendance of members. Mr. J. Hidson Taylor, of Buxton, was 

 unanimously elected a member of the Society. — The following officers 

 were elected to serve during 1903 : — President, Mr. S. J. Capper, 

 P.E.S. ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. W. Webster, F.R.S.A.I., R. Tait, 

 Jun., and P. C. Thompson; Hon. Treasurer, Dr. J. Cotton, F.E.S. ; 

 Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., F. Birch, and 

 H. Tonkin ; Hon. Librarian, Mr. R. Wilding ; Council, Dr. G. W. 

 Chaster, Messrs. J. R. le B. Tomlin, F.E.S. , F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., 

 John Lea, W. A. Tyerman, W. D.Harrison, and A. Tippins. — Mr. 

 R. Newstead read a paper on the life-history of the following species 

 of Coccidfe : Eviopeltis festucm, Lichtensia vihurni, Vinsonia stellifera, 

 Pseudococcus iilicis ; and also some important observations on the male 

 of Lecaniam hesperidnm, which he has discovered undergoes a complete 

 metamorphosis, as in the males of other species of the Coccidae. Mr. 

 Newstead also dealt with the formation of the curious test of waxy 

 covering in Ceroplastes, and some important observations on the secre- 

 tion of honeydew in Palvinaria vitis var. ribesia, a full account of 

 which will appear iu the second volume of his work on the Coccidae of 

 the British Isles, shortly to be published by the Ray Society. — The 

 following exhibits were examined: — A pair of Chrysophanus dispar from 

 Yaxley (1848), forming a portion of probably the last catch of the 

 large copper in Britain, and a beautiful series of Lycccna avion from 

 S. Devon, taken in 1902 by Mr. J. R. Charnley, who also exhibited, 

 on behalf of Mr. T. Dewhirst, most excellent slides of Centra vinula 

 and Pieris rapa; ; the genus Oporabia, showing hybrid forms between 

 O. fdiyrammaria and 0. autumnaria, by Mr. Pierce ; nymphs and 

 imagines of the exotic earwig, Ghelioches mono, from Sandakan and the 

 Dammar Islands, by Mr. Sopp ; Lycana acis, by Mr. Collins ; series of 

 Erebia blandina, &c., by Mr. Prince ; and an almost black Abraxas 

 gronsulariata, by Mr. A. Tippins. 



The second ordinary meeting was held in the Royal Institution, 

 Liverpool, on Monday, the President, Mr. S. J. Capper, presiding over a 

 large attendance of members. The minutes having been confirmed, 

 the Secretary announced donations to the library from Dr. J. Harold 

 Bailey (Port Erin), and Mr. H. St. John K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S. 



