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accomplished by such diligent investigators as Dr. Joy, Mr. H. St. J. K. 

 Donisthorpe, and others, among the rarer or least-known Coleoptera 

 occurring m Great Britain. A vote of thanks to the author was pro- 

 posed by Mr. Wilding and seconded by Mr. E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., 

 and it was resolved to print the paper in the Society's Proceedings. — 

 The following exhibits were made by the members : — Dr. Cotton, a 

 long series of C. typhon var. rothleibii from Witherslack ; a series of 

 Lycama astrarche var. sabnacis from North Lancashire ; and a series of 

 Noctua glareosa from Delamere. Mr. H. R. Sweeting, a number of 

 Cynthia cardui from Eastbourne ; a specimen of the rare moth Deile- 

 phila livomica taken at li^'ht in Knowsley Park last June ; Macaria 

 liturata and its var. nigrofulvata from Delamere ; and Lyccena icarus 

 and L. corydon from Eastbourne. Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., a box of 

 Lepidoptera from India. Mr. J. J. Richardson brought moths collected 

 in the neighbourhood of Bidston, Cheshire, at ivy-bloom — a series of 

 Hnnera pennaria, Cerastis vaccinii, Luperina testacea, the last from 

 Wallasey, and Hybemia defoliaria from Sefton Park, Liverpool. Mr. 

 W. Mansbridge, Carpocapsa nimbana and Sciaphila communana from 

 the London district, received from Mr. A. Thurnall, of Croydon; these 

 two rare species attracted a good deal of attention. — The Honorary 

 Treasurer's report showed the Society to be in a very satisfactory 

 position, a fact which the Council hope to make full use of in the pre- 

 paration of the annual account of the Society's work — H. B. Sweeting 

 and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Sees. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — November 19th, 1906. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. L. Doncaster, 

 The University, Birmingham, and Mr. Hubert Langley, Narborough 

 House, Leamington, were elected members of the Society. — Mr. E. C. 

 Rossiter exhibited a box full of Lepidoptera taken by himself at Brad- 

 ing, Isle of Wight, last August. The most interesting species was 

 Pyrausta pZavalis, Schiff., which occurred in hundreds ; there were also 

 Acontia luctuosa, Esp., Agrotis vestigialis, Rott., Selidosema ericetaria, 

 Vill., Acidalia maryinepunctata Goze, &c. — Mr. G. T. Fountain showed 

 a nice series of Lyccena anon, L., from Cornwall. — Mr. S. H. Kenrick 

 exhibited four species of New Guinean Erycenidae, and pointed out the 

 great difference in general appearance between them and the western 

 species. — Mr. W. Harrison showed various Noctua3 bred from dug 

 pupa3, including Agrotis plecta, L., which species he said had emerged 

 in February without any forcing. — Mr. W. E. Collinge showed living 

 unnamed hynienopterous parasites from larvae of Agrotis segetum, Schiff., 

 and from the ova of Smerintkus ocellata, L. — Mr. A. H. Martineau 

 showed galls of the gall-fly from Potentilla reptans = Xestophanes 

 potentillce, which he found in abundance in Devonshire, the only county 

 whence it has been obtained at present. — Mr. Hubert Langley showed 

 Chrysoclista linneella, CI., from Leamington, where he had found it on 

 the limes in the greatest abundance. So numerous was it that, on 

 one occasion, he counted fifty-seven on one tree-trunk. He also 

 showed Zyymna lonicerce, Scheven, which he found commonly at 

 Southam, near Warwick. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



