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&c., including fine series of Zegris euphevie var. meridionalis, Thais 

 Tumina var. canteneri var. viedicicasti, and ab. honoratii, Araschnia 

 levana var. prorsa and var. 2^orima^ &c. — Mr. Frisby, nearly all the 

 species of British bees in the genera Andrena and Gilissa. — Mr. W. J. 

 Kaye, a drawer of species of Syntomidae he had taken at flowers in 

 S. Brazil, and gave notes on their habits. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. 

 Beport. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 

 held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, November 

 20th, 1911.— Dr. John Cotton in the chair.— Dr. P. F. Tinne read a 

 paper on " The Application of the Lumi6re Process of Colour Photo- 

 graphy to Entomology," and in the course of a most interesting 

 address exhibited a number of colour portraits of Lepidoptera in their 

 native haunts, as well as pictures of places he had visited when in 

 the pursuit of insects. It is quite evident that there is a great future 

 for this class of work as soon as coloured prints can be taken direct 

 from the negatives. — Mr. Robert Tait, Jr., exhibited a fine lot of 

 insects from Braemar, the results of his summer holiday which was 

 spent in that locality. These included a very fine series of Plusia 

 interrogationis, Dasydia obfuscaria, Ccenonympha tiphon, Zygana 

 exulans, Nemeophila plantaginis, and var. hospita, the last being 

 obtained as a partial second brood in October. Varied but smaller 

 series of the following were also shown : — Cidaria populata, C. im- 

 vianata, Goremia munitata, Larentia casiata, and Halia brunneata ; 

 Mr. Tait further contributed an interesting account of his holiday 

 with remarks upon the variation, &c., of the insects captured. — 

 Mr. Wm. Mansbridge exhibited a series of Polia chi, taken in the 

 Huddersfield district on August Bank Holiday, comprising the melanic 

 forms for which that neighbourhood is famous. — Oscar Whittaker 

 and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Sees. 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — The first meeting 

 of the 1911-12 Session was held in the Manchester Museum, Owens 

 College, on Wednesday, October 4th, Mr. B. H. Crabtree in the 

 chair. The following exhibits were made : — Mr. R. Tait, Jr., a long 

 series of varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, all bred from some two 

 or three hundred larvae from the Huddersfield district ; beautiful 

 series of Boarmia repandata — a black form from North Wales, var. 

 conversaria and the type from South Wales ; series of Diacrisia sanio 

 {russula), Drepana falcataria, Perconia strigillaria, Geometra papili- 

 onaria, Cybosia mesomella, from Wyre Forest, June, 1911 ; Apdecta 

 advena from Monkswood, A. tincta from Wyre Forest, Boarmia 

 roboraria from Monkswood, &c. — Mr. B. H. Crabtree, bred series of 

 Boarmia repandata from Delamere and Cornwall, Ennomos autum- 

 naria from Southend stock, Agrotis ashwortliii from North Wales, 

 Mamestra dissimilis from Manchester ; also a series of Ccenonympha 

 typhon from North Lancashire, Erebia epiphron and Parasemia 

 pilantaginis (with var. hospita) from the mountains near Helvellyn. 

 — Mr. W. P. Stocks, a large number of species taken at Silverdale and 

 Witherslack during June. These included, from Witherslack, series 

 of Ccenonympha typhon, Diacrisia sanio, Acronycta vienyanthidis, 

 Acidalia fumata, Perconia strigillaria, &c. From Silverdale were 



