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report on the condition of the Hbrary of ihe Society at an early date. 



A paper on Organic Evohition, with lime-light views, was communi- 

 cated by Mr. William Hewett, President of the York and District 

 Naturalists' Society, who, whilst dealing very ably with the subject in 

 general, also made special allusion to many points of peculiar interest 

 to entomologists,moreparticnlarly with respect to varieties intheLepido- 

 ptera. An interesting discussion followed, on the melanism of Amphi- 

 dasys betularia var. doubled ay aria and other moths, in which the chair- 

 man, Mr. J. Ray Hardy, of Owens College, Dr. J. Cottou, Messrs. F. N. 

 Pierce, B. H. Crabtree, G. 0. Day, and others took part. On the motion 

 of Mr. Pierce, seconded by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, a hearty vote of thanks 

 was accorded the lecturer for his paper. The fine display of exhibits 

 included, amongst others, the drawing of an extraordinary abnor- 

 mality in Priomis califoridais, which was double in every limb ; and a 

 series of cases of Coleoptera by Mr. Ray Hardy ; TriplKEua iuterjecta, 

 Noctua (jlareosa, X. hrunnea, &c., by Mr. R. Newstead, on behalf of Miss 

 Steele Perkins, of Rhyl; bone variety oi Arctia plantaginis Siud var. 

 hospita, by Mr. Harold Milne ; Orgijia pudihunda, by Dr. J. Cotton and 

 Mr. F. C. Thompson ; varieties of Abraxas (jrosaulariata, Epliyra, &c., by 

 Mr. B. H. Crabtree ; two rare Dutch volumes with coloured plates by 

 Sepp, and Lepidoptera varieties by Mr. G. 0. Day ; varieties of Arctia 

 caia, by Mr. C. F. Johnson ; Arctia lubiicipedn, A. urtica, &c., by Mr. 

 Herbert Massey ; Diantlmcia conspersa by Mr. F. N. Pierce ; Perth- 

 shire Coleoptera, and Ccelioxys mandibular is, a hymenopteron new to 

 the British list, by Mr. F. Birch ; Hemiptera from Bolton, by Mr. Oscar 

 Whittaker ; Anechura bipimctata, an Armenian earwig, with the 

 Caucasian variety orientalis, by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp. — E. J. Burgess 

 Sopp, Hon. Secretary. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March 11th. — Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited 

 a few Lepidoptera taken in Wyre Forest, including a pair of Apamea 

 testacea, which had been taken in cop. at 3 p.m. ; Sesia ichneumoni- 

 formis, Myelois cribrella [cribriini), Euchluris pastulata {bajidaria), and 

 Hemithea striyata (thyniiaria). — Mr. J. T. Fountain, a series of Lasio- 

 campa qnerciis, including local bred females from young larvae taken in 

 the spring and bred same summer ; the specimens running from very light 

 ones to quite dark ones ; also some males taken " semblmg " at Sutton, 

 with wide light lines approaching var. calhma. In answer to questions, 

 he said that he had also taken full-fed larvae of the same species at 

 Sutton in the autumn. — Mr. A. D. Imms, Lepisma saccharina, taken 

 in a kitchen at West Bromwich ; it is one of our four British species 

 of Thysanura. — Mr. C. J. Wainwright, photos of insects and parts of 

 insects taken by Mr. Mearns, of Aberdeen. — Mr. G. T. Bethune- 

 Baker, a drawerful of Lycsenidae of the group Amblypodia, chiefly 

 the genus Arhopala, and gave an account of the same, explaining his 

 theories of the origin of the various forms. He believes all were 

 originally brown, and the more blue there is, the more recent the 

 species, roughly speaking. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



