7452 Entomological Society. 



Eoyal Agricullural Society of England,' Vol. xxi. Part 2; by the Society. 'The 

 Journal of the Society of Aris ' for February ; by the Society. ' The Athenreum ' for 

 February ; by the Editor. The ' Zoologist' for March ; by the Editor. ' The Ento- 

 mologist's Weekly Inlelligencer,' No.s. 227 to 230 inclusive; by H. T. Staint(ui, Esq. 

 ' Stettiner Enlomologische Zcitung,' Vol. xxii. Nos. 1 — 3 ; by the Entomological So- 

 ciety of Stettin. 



Elections. 

 George Sharp Saunders, Esq., of Hill Field, Reigate, was elected a Member of 

 the Society ; and Alfred Haward, Esq., of Gloucester Eoad, Croydon, was elected a 

 Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhihitions. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited two beautiful specimens of Xylina conformis, taken near 

 Cardiff, on ivy-blossoms, in Octuber, 1859. The species had not hitherto been cap- 

 tured in Britain. 



Dr. Wallace exhibited fine dark varieties of Hemerophila abruptaria, taken near 

 London; and a Lasiociimi)a bred from the larva found in the Isle of Wight, which he 

 considered closely resembled the species or variety fiom the North of England, called 

 CalluuGB. 



Mr. Mitford exhibited a beautiful brown variety of Biston prodromarius, and a 

 produced hybrid from Phigalia pilosaria and Nyssia hispidaria, respecting which he 

 furnished the following notes : — 



" On the 5th of March, 1859, I enclosed a female of Nyssia hispidaria, which 

 had recently emerged from the pupa, in a gauze-covered chip-box, and also intro- 

 duced a male of Phigalia pilosaria. They copulated, and on the 7th of that month 

 the female deposited her eggs, which hatched the first week in April, and the larvte 

 assumed the pupa state about a mouth afterwards. The following March three per- 

 fect and three crippled males ;ind one female made their appearance. Tn size the 

 males resemble N. hispidaria, but in colnur have the lighter and greener tint and 

 transparency of wing of P. pilosaria ; the legs and antennae of the female also are 

 annulated as in the females of the latter species. I should add that but for an acci- 

 dent, which destroyed the greater part of my pupae, I should probably have bred forty 

 or fifty more." 



Mr. Mitford also exhibited the following species of Psyche, with notes on their 

 economy : — 



" P.fmca. Larva of this species abundant in the neighbourhood of Hampstead ; 

 it feeds early and late in the season, chiefly on bramble ; in the summer months, on 

 various trees and plants, more particularly huckihorn, oak and mountuin ash. The 

 larvEE are hatched in August, and the moths appear the following June twelvemonths; 

 thus they are two years in arriving at the perfect state. The female pupa-cases are 

 found spun up on leaves in an upright position ; that of the male is generally pen- 

 dant from branches or main stems. 



" P. radiella. The perfect insect frequents moist places on Ilampslead Heath, 

 in June. I have never found the larva-cases. 



" P. salicolella. The larva-cases of this species were discovered by Mr. Tompkins 

 on buckthorn, and afterwards by myself on birch, at Hampstead : they are a facsimile 

 of a small P. fusca case. 



