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March 18th.— Mr. W. Mansbridge, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — The members heard with regret of the death of Mr. John 

 Robson, of Hartlepool, an honorary member of the Society, and one 

 who had taken considerable interest in its welfare. — Dr. W. Bell, J. P., 

 gave a most interesting demonstration of his methods of larva-pre- 

 serving, and exhibited numerous beautiful examples of the art ; some 

 species being mounted upon preserved plants, others upon artificial 

 foliage, many of the larvas being accompanied by their respective 

 imagines set in their characteristic resting attitudes. Dr. Bell also 

 exhibited a specimen of Phtsia aurifera, one of three captured in Corn- 

 wall by Mr. Moore. The insects remained unrecognized until recently. 

 There are only two other records of this rare insect in Britain, viz. one 

 now in the British Museum collection, and another in a Liverpool 

 collection formed by the late Mr. Robertson, of Limehouse, which is 

 still in the possession of his family. — Other exhibits were : — Mr. 

 B. H. Crabtree, fine varieties of Arctia caia : (1) with yellow hind 

 wings; (2) a chocolate form with nearly unicolorous fore wings; 

 (3) with all the dark markings of a dull ochreous buff colour ; (4) a 

 specimen with white fringes to the fore wings, and reduced dark 

 markings. Mr. Sopp, the cockroach Phoraspis leucogramma, Perty, 

 taken in the Liverpool Docks, this being a Brazilian species not pre- 

 viously recorded as having occurred' in Europe. Mr. W. A. Tyerman, 

 a long and variable series of Tceniocampa opima bred from Wallasey 

 ova ; some very dark forms were included. Mr. W. Mansbridge, a 

 short series of Zygana minos from Argyllshire, together with the Welsh 

 form for comparison. — A paper by Mr. Robert Newstead, F.E.S., on 

 the genus Glossina (tsetse flies) and Stomopys was announced for the 

 next meeting on April 15th. — H. R. Sweeting and Wm. Mansbridge, 

 Hon. Sees. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — February 18th, 1907. — 

 Annual Meeting. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. 

 — The usual formal business of Reports, Election of Officers, Council, 

 &c, having been concluded, Mr. J. T. Fountain showed living Pieris 

 rapa, L., and Larentia multistrigaria, Haw., the former having been 

 taken on the wing on Feb. 15th, the latter having been bred. — Mr. 

 H. Willoughby Ellis, the following Coleoptera : — Barynotus schdnherri, 

 Zett., from Knowle, a species not previously taken in the Midlands. 

 Anchomenus puellus, Dr., taken in winter in frozen reeds near Birming- 

 ham. Oluthopus rotundatus, Pk., a variety taken at Bewdley, with 

 much narrower thorax than the type. The insect was altogether more 

 slender, but the thorax was narrower in proportion ; it made it look 

 like a new species. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a boxful of the brightest 

 coloured moths, as brightly coloured and beautiful as any butterflies. 

 They were all from New Guinea, and chiefly consisted of the genus 

 Milionea (Geometers) and various Agaristidae, and included various 

 new species. — Colbran J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological Society. — February 5th, 1907. — 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited bred specimens of Hastula hyerana. 

 Fifteen examples emerging between November and January were 

 decidedly darker than any of four hundred specimens emerging at the 

 normal time, viz. between August and October. It was suggested that 

 the low temperature rather than the prolonged pupal period was the 



