284 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — May 9th. — A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. J. E. Gardner, of Upper Clapton, was elected a member. — Mr. Jiiger 

 exhibited, for Miss Edwards, a series of Hyhernia leucophcBaria from 

 East Grinstead, with which a large percentage of var. marmorinaria 

 had occurred this year. — Mr. R. Adkin, specimens of Dianthcecia 

 luteago, and read notes on the two varietal forms barrettii &ndficklini. 

 — Mr. R. Adkin then read a paper entitled " Labelling Entomological 

 Specimens," after which a considerable discussion took place. 



June 27th.— Mv. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. 

 Sothern Dekter, of Lee, was elected a member. — Mr. Gahan exhibited 

 some sycamore leaves showing the mines of the larvaB of the sawi3y 

 Phyllotoina aceris, and the remarkable cases, in the form of little 

 circular discs, constructed by the larvae. These cases become detached 

 and move on the ground by little hops, somewhat like the Mexican 

 jumping bean. — Mr. A. Sich, specimens of the rare Micro-Lepido- 

 pteron Coleophora agramella, from Hailsham. — Mr. R. x\dkin, a short 

 series of Biston hirtaria bred from Aviemore larvee, which fed up in 

 1908. The imagines exhibited emerged in March and April of this 

 year. — Mr. Edwards, a pair of the beautiful Lycaenid Eumceus 

 debora, from Mexico, and a fine specimen of the rare Epiphele 

 eriopsis, from Bogota. — Mr. Gowham, a fine regular variety of 

 Abraxas grossulariata taken in his garden ; the usual yellow 

 markings were almost absent, and the black markings were of 

 smaller area and very symmetrical. — Mr. Dods, a cocoon of Flaty- 

 somia cecropia, from which the imago had emerged by the wrong 

 end. — Mr. Goff, somewhat heavily marked specimens of Brcnthis 

 euphrosijne from Kent and Surrey. — Mr. H. Moore, a huge tick taken 

 from a tortoise from North Africa. — Mr. Step read the Report of the 

 Delegates to the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies held at Folkestone in June. — Hy. J. Turner {Hon. Bep. 

 Sec). 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — March Qth. — Mr. 

 J. H. Watson exhibited a drawer of the varieties of Parnassius 

 mnemosyne, notably vars. haltares, hartmanni, and melaina. He 

 also showed a larva of the hybrid between Cricula anclrei and 

 C. trifenestrata. — Mr. A. E. Salmon showed examples of West 

 African insects found in a Manchester rubber-works. — Mr. A. W. 

 Boyd showed Golias edusa taken in Cheshire in 1912, a blue 

 female Lyccena icarus from Killarney, and a blotched Boarmia 

 gemmaria from Altrincham, Cheshire. — Mr. H. S. Leigh read a paper 

 on the " Life-history of the Leaf-Insect Pulchriphyllium critri- 

 folium and Mantis Spodromantis guttata." He gave the results of 

 his valuable personal observations of the life-history and habits of 

 these two insects. — A. W. Boyd, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



