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eluded Thyatira hatis, T. derasa, Cymatophora duplaris, C. fluctuosa 

 (one), C. or, and C. ocularis (one), Acronycta Jeporina, Xyluphasia 

 hepatica, Mamestra sordida, Agrotis exclamationis (fine vars.), A. cinerea, 

 Aplecta herbida, A. tincta, Hadena contigna, Tephrosia luridata {exter- 

 xaria). Of these, C. duplaris, T. extcrsaria, H. coiitiguti, and A. tincta 

 were common, the last-named being a perfect nuisance ; of A. cinerea 

 he took one female, which in his experience was much rarer than the 

 male, and he had never seen it at sugar before. — Mr. C. J. Wain- 

 wright, a specimen of Protoparce convolvuli, which had been sent to him 

 from Wiltshire. — Mr. H. W. Ellis, the following Coleoptera : — Silpha 

 sinuata, from Bewdley ; Galervcella tenella, Hydroehus elongates, and 

 Bagoxis cylindrus, all from Bedfordshire, the latter species in some 

 numbers. — Mr. J. T. Fountain, Pieris daplidirc from Jersey in August 

 last ; bred series of Selenia huuiria, both spring and summer broods, for 

 comparison; and a series of Ennomos angularia, bred from a Brock- 

 enhurst female. — Mr. A. D. Innes, the thysanuran Machilis maritima, 

 from Port Erin, Isle of Man; they were common on the rocks and 

 cliff-faces, and also came in to light at the biological station, and 

 were common all over the house. Anurida maritima, also from Port 

 Erin, August, 1901, a species of Collembola from rock-pools, &c., 

 below high-water mark. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a drawerful of 

 Ccenonympha from many localities, including C. davus var. rothliebi 

 from Witherslack and Chartley Moss, and pale Continental forms. He 

 said that though Barrett figures and describes the pale form of this 

 species as a mountain form, yet in his experience it was the usual 

 form on the Continent. — Mr. W. H. Flint read a very interesting 

 paper upon the digestive tract in Lepidoptera, He gave an account of 

 his own researches, illustrating them upon the blackboard, describing 

 the form, functions, and variations, &c., of the digestive organs. 

 Among other things, he mentioned that this spring he had a large 

 brood of FJndromis versicolor, which died without eating'; upon dis- 

 section he found that the mesenteren and gnostodeum had never joined 

 up, consequently there Avas no passage through. — Colbran J. Wain- 

 WRiGHT, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The first 

 meeting of the Winter Session was held on October 14th, in the Royal 

 Institution, Colquitt Street, with the Vice-President, Mr. R. Wilding, 

 in the chair. — Dr. G. W. Chaster exhibited a collection of Sovithport 

 Coleoptera, including at least forty species which have not yet been 

 found in the Liverpool district. Amongst these may be mentioned, 

 Carabus glabratus (probably introduced), Hydrmia nigrita, Phlceopora 

 corticalis (both very rare), Animtoma picea (hitherto only known from 

 Scotland), Anthcrophagux silaceus, Ammceciux brcvis, Anthicus biniaciilatus 

 (up to the time of capture of this species by Dr. Chaster and Mr. 

 Tomlin, at Southport, only two specimens were known — see Dr. Ellis's 

 Liverpool List), OrtlwchcEtes setiger, Ceuthorrhynchidius daicsoni, and PJiin- 

 onchusgramineus. Mr. Wilding heartily congratulated Dr. Chaster on the 

 addition of such rarities to the Lancashire fauna. — Mr. F. Birch, Scarites 

 gigas, from West Africa ; he also read a letter from Mr, E. J. B. Sopp, on 

 the distribution of one of the rarer cockroaches, Periplaneta australasicB, 

 specimens of which were exhibited. — Mr. Oulton Harrison, a living 

 larva of Lampyris noctiluca from Delamere Forest. — Mr. Crabtree. a 



