7536 Northern Entomological Society. 



Northern Entomological Societv. 



March 16, 1861. — C. S. Gregson, Esq., President, in the chair. 



A vote of thanks to the late President, B. Cooke, Esq., was accorded with great 

 cordiality. 



Exhihitions. 



By Mr. Hagjue. Noctiia ditrapezium, from Conway (see Intel. No. 230). 



By Mr. Harrison. Miana captiuncula, 7>., captured by himself at Warbrick 

 Moor, near Liverpool. 



By Mr. Gregson. Lithosia caniola, from his cabinet ; taken by himself, July 12 

 to August 2, 1856, and 1857, in Cheshire, where it was not scarce. He also exhi- 

 bited specimens of Dianthoecia ? taken by Messrs. Tillman and Nicholson, on 



the coast of Cumberland; a singular variety of Arctia caja; Arctia Menthastri, 

 var. Walkerii, presented to him by Mr. Tiltman ; and a series of varieties of Dian- 

 thoecia carpophaga, from light buflf to reddish brown. 



By Mr. Miller. A singular variety of Chrysophanus Phlseas. 



By Mr. Hodgkinson. Coleophora rauriuipennella, bred near Preston ; a singular 

 variety of Arctia caja ; and a series of Grapholita nisana? fed on while poplar. This 

 insect never varies like the sallow-catkin feeder, but is always a dull greenish drab. 



By Mr. Greening. Pupa of Anthocharis Cardamines, the larva of which bad fed 

 upon LeguminosEE ; a fine series of Leucophasia Sinapis, Lin., and a fine series of 

 L. Sinapis, Haworth (Leptoria Candida, Weslwood ^ Humphreys, plate 6, fig. 11). 



The President also exhibited fine series of these two species of Leucophasia 

 (British), and a number of foreign specimens of ihe same genus, including L. Lathyri, 

 Dup., Erysimi? Bork., Sec, from Switzerland, Bavaria and France, illustrative of a 

 paper he read upon the genus Leucophasia, which paper was further illustrated by a 

 series of lithographic figures he had drawn and printed for distribution amongst the 

 members. 



The President likewise exhibited a box of curious varieties of Abraxas ulmaria, 

 recently added to his collection. One of them, obtained from Mr. J. Blakeley, has 

 cue fore wing dark and unicolorous, the other singularly white. — G. H. W. 



Case of Bulalis incongruella found on Birch. — A case of this species has been 

 sent to me for determination by the Rev. H. Burney, who found it on a birch- 

 tree in Cannock Chase. — H. T. Stainton {in the * Intelligencer') ; April 22, 1861. 



Etachista Larva. — From Professor Fritzsche, of Freibourg, I have just received 

 two packets of Elachista larvae ; those on the Agrostis stolonifera were already in 

 pupa, possibly they may be E. subnigrella; those on Poa compressa with black heads 

 and black marks on the second segment, appear to be E. Gregsoni. It is very 

 pleasant to find that Elachista-hiinters are now at work in Saxony.— /rf. 



