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pairs of the South American genera Melincea and Heliconius, found 

 flying together and assimilating to each other in colour. — Com- 

 mander Gwatkin-Williams, aberrations of British Lepidoptera from 

 Ireland, including Epinephele jurtina, with banded hind wings, 

 females ; several Gidaria, which possibly may be C. concinnata, 

 Xanthorho'e montanata, with band obsolete, confluent Anthrocera 

 trifolii, EucJilo'd cardamines, females with ochreous hind wings, &c. — 

 Mr. Chas. Oldham, two collections of small chalk stones that he had 

 collected within a small radius of the openings of two wasps' nests, 

 and which the wasps had been unable to carry to a greater distance. 

 — Mr. A. W. Buckstone, for Mr. Archer, a bleached form of Ancjerona 

 primaria, male, from Oxshott ; an almost black Lithosia helvola 

 (deplana) from Wimbledon; and an Acidalia which was supposed to 

 be a very aberrant form of A. subsericeata. — Mr. H. Worsley-Wood, 

 numerous forms of Mellinia ocellaris, including ab. lineago, ab. inter- 

 media, with M. gilvago for comparison ; yellow Brephos parthenias 

 from Wimbledon, and lead-coloured males of Agriades thetis from 

 Corfe. — Eev. J. Tarbat, black suffused forms of Brenthis euphrosyiie 

 ab. nigro-sparsata of Abraxas grossulariata, and a Gidaria truncata 

 with a broad-banded fore wing. — Mr. Haynes, a series of hybrid 

 Selenia tetrahmaria males and S. bihmaria females, with a large 

 preponderance of gynandromorphous specimens ; melanic and 

 ochreous varieties of Ennomos quercinaria, &c. — Mr. H. J. Turner, 

 a series of Erebia stygne from the Continent to show the extreme 

 local variation in the Alps and Pyrenees. — Messrs. Sharp & C. W. 

 Colthrup, many Golias edusa from the south-eastern district, re- 

 presentative of the species in 1913. — H. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — October 

 20th, 1913. — Meeting held at the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Street, 

 Liverpool. — The President, Mr. F. N. Pierce, P.B.S., in the chair.— 

 Exhibitions were as follows: — Mr. W. Mansbridge brought a long- 

 bred series of Hadena glauca from Burnley, some of which showed a 

 strong melanic tendency ; also from Burnley the melanic variation 

 ' oi Eynaturga atomaria, Hyriaviuricata, purple form, and Goanonympha 

 typihon var. rothliebii from Witherslack ; Nyssia zonaria from the 

 Crosby Sandhills, and the insects captured on the occasion of the 

 Society's field meeting at Mold on June 7th, 1913, including Lobo- 

 phora viretata, Gnephasia muscidana, Gapua favillaceana, Argyrolepia 

 hartmanniana, and Agriopis aprilina (larva). — Mr. E. Tait showed a 

 long and variable series of the beautiful melanic form of Boarmia 

 repandata from Penmaenmawr, also bred Agrotis lucernea from the 

 same district; varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, including ab. 

 varleyata, bred from various localities in 1913 ; Aplecta nebulosa var. 

 robsoni and Geometra papilionaria from Delamere ; Hecatera serena 

 and Galligenia viiniata from Sussex. Mr. Tait also gave an account 

 of his collecting holiday in Sussex, from which it appeared that 

 Lepidoptera had been as difficult to obtain in the South of England 

 as in the North during the past summer. — Mr. Johnson exhibited a 

 long and fine series of G. typhon, including some very dark forms, 

 from Witherslack ; also Acidalia fumata, Nissoniades tages, and 

 Lycana astrarche from the same place. — Dr. P. F. Tinne, various 



