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stages, in support of those shown by the superficial imaginal charac- 

 ters, and those of the ancillary appendages in H. nictitayis, H. jxilu- 

 dis, and H. lucens, but more particularly to detect, if possible, diffe- 

 rentiating characters in tlie early stages of the two species H. lucens 

 and H. crina?iensis, the genitalic characters of which are so entirely 

 different in both sexes and yet whose facial characters so far appear 

 practically indistinguishable. Excellent photographs of the genital 

 organs of the four British species (both sexes), made by Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce, were handed round for examination. — The Eev. C. E. N. 

 Burrows, to whose research the discovex^y of H. crinanensis is really 

 due, stated that he had little to add to what Mr, Tutt had said ; 

 it seemed to him amazing that two species showing so much diffe- 

 rence as H. lucens and H. crinanensis in their genitalia, should 

 present no definitely marked superficial character in the imago. — Dr. 

 Karl Jordan considered that the four species, as proved by the diffe- 

 rences in the genitalic structures, were abundantly distinct, and 

 brought forward a parallel case among the Attacids. — Mr. J. C. 

 Kershaw contributed a paper on " The Oothecae of an Asilid {Pro- 

 mackus, sp.)." — Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., read a paper 

 entitled " Xanthandriis comtus, Namr., a Correction." — H. Kowland- 

 Brown, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — il/arc/i 2nd, 1910.— Mr. .A. Sich, E.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. Mr. Sich exhibited specimens of Coleopkora troglody- 

 tella bred from larvae fed on Achillea, millefolium, and also larvuB 

 feeding on mignonette seeds, probably those of Borkhausenia pseudo- 

 sprctella. — Mr. K. Adkin, series of Tceniocampa gothica var. gothicina, 

 selected from a large number of bred and captured specimens. — 

 Captain Cardew, a bred series of Pachnobia leucograplia, very dark in 

 colour; a series of typical T. gothica, bred from var. gothicina 

 parents; and specimens of Phigalia j^daria from Wimbledon, one 

 taken on January 2nd, worn ; two on March 18th, in good condition. 

 — Mr. P. Barrett reported Brephos partheyiias and Gonepteryx rhamni 

 in woods near London. 



March 10^/?.- Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair.— 

 — Mr. West exhibited two cabinet drawers of the Society's collection 

 of Coleoptera which he had just remounted and arranged. — Mr. 

 Barrett, specimens of Nyssia hispidaria, Phygalia p)cdaria, and 

 Hybcrfiia Icucophcearia, from Eichmond Park, and noted that he took 

 the first-named species in the same locality forty years ago, and that 

 quite one-third of the last species seen were more or less crippled. — 

 Mr. Lucas, the photogi'aph of a very rare earwig, 0. lewisi, from a 

 specimen obtained in the Liverpool Docks (see p. 129). — Mr. Bonham, 

 two bi-ed, intensely black, females of Nyssia hispidaria. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, an interesting series of Anthrocera species from Bristol, 

 taken by Messrs. Smallcombe, including A. hippocrepidis var. chry- 

 santhemi, a yellow form, a fine pink form, and a red form with yellow 

 spots, with a confluent form of A. lonicerce. He also showed a con- 

 fluent specimen of A. meliloti, and reported that pupae of a second 

 brood of Abraxas grossulariata kept out of doors were still alive. 

 The remainder of the evenin" was devoted to the exhibition of 



