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Harrison, Main, and L. W. Newman, liybrids of Biston hirtaria and 

 Nyssia zonaria. It was stated that females had not yet been obtained 

 in the cross B. hirtaria male and A'', zonaria female. Mr. Adkin read 

 detailed notes on the characteristics of the hybrid specimens shown 

 by him. — Mr. Gough, specimens of the arete form of Aphantopus 

 hyperanthus from Kent and Surrey, together with intermediate and 

 type forms.— Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living female scorpion just 

 received from the West Indies ; it had two young on its back where, 

 it was stated, the parent deposited them and where they usually 

 remained two or three weeks. — Mr. W. West (Greenwich) called at- 

 tention to the Society's collection of Coleoptera, which had now been 

 completely reset and cleaned, and to which Messrs. Ashby and 

 Ashdown had recently made numerous additions. — Mr. H. Moore, 

 some Coleoptera received alive from the Orange Free State. — Mr. E. 

 Adkin, a bred series of Nyssia zonaria reared from Wallasey, and 

 called attention to the laying over of numerous pupae for two 

 winters, and to the much paler general coloration of a number of 

 the specimens. — Mr. Blenkarn, the coleopteron Myrmedonia fnnesta 

 and the ant it cohabited with, Formica fuliginosus, from Sandown. — 

 Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Secretary. 



The Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society. — Entomological Section (late Birmingham Entomological 

 Society).— /a7i. 16^/i, 1911.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President of 

 the Section, in the chair. — The President referred to the great loss to 

 entomological science by the death of Mr. J. W. Tutt. A vote of 

 condolence with his family was passed, all members standing in their 

 places. — Lepidoptera from Wicken Fen : Mr. Lloyd Chadwick exhibi- 

 ted G. qnercifolia, N. ziczac, N. dictcea, M. arundinis, M. flamviea, 

 G. phrarjmitellus, L. impiidens, L. straminea, L. pallens ab. rufescens, 

 C. senex, A. gemina ab. remissa, H. cribralis, T. hellmanni, H. auror- 

 aria, H. costcestrigalis, G. sparsata, C. lemnalis, N. cilialis, A. advejia, 

 P. festuccR. — Lepidoptera from Cornwall and Devon : Dr. Beckworth 

 'Whitehoiiseexhihited Polianigrocincta,Diant}iosciabarrettii,Heliothis 

 peltigera, Epunda lichenea, E. nigra, Ghariclea umbra. — Lepidoptera 

 from Henley-in-Arden : Mr. G. B. Manly exhibited Trochiliuni 

 bembeciforviis, Drepana hamula, Xylophasia sublustris, Apamea ophio- 

 gramma, Hepialus sylvamis, Hybernia defoliaria, Himcra p)^nnaria, 

 Trichiura cratcegi, Notodonta dromedarius, Girrhcedia xerampelina, 

 Gymatophora ditplaris, Orthosia suspecta, Ep)unda lutulenta, Aplecta 

 lierbida, TryphcBna fimbria. — Teratological specimens : Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune-Baker exhibited the following : Erebia melampus with left 

 hind wing short; Melitcza athalia with right hind wing short; Erebia 

 adyte with right hind wing about half size ; Erebia ceto without a 

 head — the specimen was swept off a flower and possibly the head had 

 been seized by a spider ; the insect fluttered quite briskly nine hours 

 afterwards. — Mr. G. T. Fountain exhibited Gheimatobia boreata taken 

 under leaves during frost, November 20th, 1910. — Mr. H. Willoughby 

 Ellis, specimens of the scarce beetle Gathormiocerus socius from the 

 Isle of Wight, May, 1910. 



Feb. 30^/i.— Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President of the Section, 

 in the chair. — Mr. W. Bowater exhibited hybrids Zonaria x hirtaria 

 bred from Yorkshire larvae sent by Mr. J. W. H. Harrison. Those 



