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read a paper entitled " On Inflation in Insects," samining up the 

 results of more than thirty years' observation and experiment. In the 

 discussions which followed, Mr. Tutt pointed out that the problem 

 was as yet unsolved, why C. arcania and other species characteristic 

 of very adjacent Continental areas were absolutely non-British. — 

 Hy. J. Turner [Hon. Rep. Sec). 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — September 15th, 1902. — 

 Mr. E. 0. Bradley in tlie cliair. — Mr. G. W. Wynn showed various 

 Lepidoptera, including Protoparre convnlvuU, taken at Hampton-in- 

 Arden, September 28th, 1901 ; series of Cijnuitophora duplaris from Wyre 

 Forest, Sutton, and Hay Woods, near Knowle ; those from Wyre (a 

 long series) were typical, with well-marked transverse markings and 

 quite pale median bands ; whilst those from Sutton and Hay Woods 

 were all dark, and approaching a unicolorous character, the pale 

 markings practically gone and the dark ones indistinct, one dark band 

 beyond the middle being fairly distinct, and the others quite faint. He 

 said others he had from Tamworth were also of this dark form, and 

 suggested that it might be due to the neighbourhood of Birmingham 

 to these three localities ; also a fine variety of Xanthia lutea Strom. 

 {silago, Hb.), from Hamptoa-in-Arden, which showed a broad intensified 

 median band and an intensified costal spot near the base of the wings, 

 and practically no other markings, tlie small spots being absent ; also 

 CifiiiiHophoraoctogesima and other insects from Wyre Forest. — Mr. A. H. 

 Martineau, Volucella inanis from Littleham, South Devon, where it was 

 taken oa rubus dowers on August 6tli, 1902. — Mr. J. T. Fountain, 

 Chmrocampa elpennr bred from larvae found near Sliirley in 1901 ; also 

 a series of Spilosoma mentluistrl bred from a nearly unicolorous one ; a 

 few resembled the parent, and these, he said, appeared first. — Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley, Aculeata from Barmouth, 1902 : Ayenia variegata, a good 

 series of both sexes, taken in June and August; and Sapijga 5-punctat(i, 

 a series with one male only, taken in June ; both must have been com- 

 mon, but hard to take. — Mr. Colbran J. Wainwright, rare Tachinidse: 

 Parexonista fimbriata from Tan-y-bwlch, North Wales, 1901 ; and 

 Phytomyptera nitidiventris from Bournemouth, 1901 ; both taken by 

 Mr. R. C. Bradley.— Mr. W. H. Flint exhibited the following Lepido- 

 ptera : — Drymonia chaonia, a fine bred one from the Forest of Dean 

 district; Notodonta trepida, found at Kingswood, just emerged; Larentia 

 cucuUUa (sinuata) and Acidalla rubiyinata (rubricata), one of each, from 

 South Devon, between Marychurch and Newton Abbott; also three very 

 fine varieties oi Larentia so rdidata {elutata) from the Forest of Dean, which 

 showed a broad pale median band, with a broad dark hind marginal 

 band, and a broad dark band before the median one ; also Sesia chrysi- 

 diformis and S. ichnewnoniformis from the Forest of Dean district ; of 

 the latter he showed a fine series, and said he had traced it to its 

 headquarters, where he found it commonly flying over trefoils and other 

 low-growing flowers ; he could have taken two dozen a day easily ; also 

 a fine specimen of Lycmna senuaryus (acis), which he took himself at 

 Wolvey, in Warwickshire, in 1896. He did not recognize it till he got 

 it home, but it is in fine condition and unmistakable ; also a specimen of 

 Augiades comma, said to have been taken in Warwickshire, near Stone- 

 leigh, but needing confirmation. 



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