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specimens. He also showed a long series of bred Melita;a aurinia 

 from Penarth and Carlisle. — Mr. McArthur, bright and well-marked 

 specimens of Plutella annulateJla from the Orkneys. — Mr. Fremlin, a 

 number of specimens of Lepidoptera and other insects taken during a 

 short trip to Canada in 1900, and read notes. — Mr. Lucas, the species 

 of Odonata taken by Mr. Fremlin at the same time, including species 

 of the genera Sy7upetnim, Libellula, Gomphus, jEschna, and Afirion, — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Apiil 15th, 

 1901. — Mr. R. Wilding in the chair. — Minutes of the preceding meeting 

 were read and confirmed. — Mr. Wilding again thanked the St. Helen's 

 members who had done so much to make the previous meeting a success. 

 He afterwards referred to the death of Mr. Robert Brown, one of the 

 oldest members, who, although his special study was botany, had 

 always taken an interest in the doings of the Society. — The Rev. R. 

 Freeman proposed that the Society adjourn until October. Dr. J. 

 Cotton seconded, but suggested that a field meeting should be held in 

 June at Delamere. The Secretary was deputed to make preliminary 

 arrangements. — Mr. C. E. Stott, of Bolton, communicated a paper by 

 Mr. F. H. Day, of Carlisle, entitled "Notes on the Coleoptera of the 

 Cumberland Mountains," in which he gave accounts of the rarer and 

 more interesting of the beetles which find a home on the slopes of 

 Scawfell and its neighbours. Mr. Wilding, who read the paper, said 

 that the species were identical with those of the Welsh mountains, — 

 that he had taken many of the msects named on the slopes of Snow- 

 don and the hills around Llangollen ; thus affording another proof 

 that when the localities are similar the insect faunas are alike also, 

 though perhaps two hundred miles apart. A discussion on these 

 points was carried on by the Chairman, Messrs. Freeman, Burgess- 

 Sopp, Pierce, Cotton, and Birch, after which the fullowiug exhibits 

 were examined : — Mr. Day's case of specimens illustrating his paper, 

 which included that burnished gem Carabus nitens, an insect made 

 resplendent by its coppery thorax and metallic green elytra ; C. gla- 

 bratus, C. arvensis, PterusUchus cethiops, Aphodms lapponiun, and many 

 other rarities, by Mr. C. E. Stott. Bembidiuni niyricorne and Philonthus 

 qidsquiliarius, the latter new to the Liverpool fauna, by Mr. Wilding. 

 Spongiphorct Iherminleii, a remarkable Orthopterou from Espirito Santo, 

 by Mr. Burgess-Sopp. Phigalia pedaria and Acalla literana, by Mr. A. 

 Tippins. — Frederick Birch, Hoti. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — March 18th, 1901. — Mr. G. 

 T, Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. J. T. Fountain showed 

 a series of Callimorpha hera taken in Jersey last year, also living larvse 

 of the same. He had found a batch of the eggs on a leaf of ivy, and 

 had succeeded in getting some of the larvae thus far through the winter, 

 and they had now become active. He referred to the habits of various 

 hybernators in the spring, and said that he had often seen the larvae of 

 Arctia caia in the early spring on posts, &c., in the sunshine, having 

 apparently come up to sun themselves, and that they went down again 

 as soon as the sun went in ; he had also seen the pupje of Bombijx rubi 

 come up to the top end of their cocoons in sunny weather, also appar- 

 ently to feel the warmth of the sun. — Mr. R. C. Bradley exhibited 



