SEPl^EMBKN 22>i(f, 1904. 



Mr. Hu(.n Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Ernest C. Joy, of Stoke Newington, was elected a 

 member. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a H\ing specimen of the cricket 

 {Gryllus caiiipestris) found outside his house in Lower Road, 

 Deptford, no doubt having been attracted by the electric light. 

 He also showed a number of species taken during the Society's 

 Field Meeting at Epping on September loth, including nice 

 series of the Diptera Hclophiliis pemiiilus and Sericomyia 

 borcalis, specimens of the ^ras?,hopY)ei-, SieiiobotJints paralleliis, 

 and of the Ichneumon, /. liicicitoniis ; also, from Tasmania, a 

 short scries of males and females of the beautiful metallic 

 Lauiprima aurata, a Lucanid beetle, showing considerable 

 sexual dimorphism as well as poljinorphism of the male. 



Mr. A. Harrison and Mr. H. Main exhibited a nice series 

 of Carsia pahidata, taken at Simonswood Moss, near Liver- 

 pool, at the end of July, 1904, and a bred series of Cinlurdia 

 xerampelina, from larvae taken near Llangollen. 



Mr. Edwards brought for exhibition short series of both 

 males and females of Goiicpteryx rhcvnni and G. cleopatra 

 with reference to the remarks on the species at the previous 

 meeting. Mr. Tutt said that he felt quite sure they were 

 distinct as species, from his experience with them in the 

 field, .\lthough they flew together in some places, yet on 

 the wing the}- could readily be distinguished by one who 

 was familiar with them. Again, the latter species was very 

 restricted in its area of distribution, and its usual food-plant 

 {Rlictiiimis al(itenius) was by no means generally distributed. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a male specimen of .-Eschua 

 isosceles, one of eleven he had taken in the Norfolk Broads 

 in June last, also a specimen of Orthetnun cancellaiuni from 

 the same localit}'. He stated that the former species had 

 been taken many years ago in the Fens by Mr. C. G. Barrett, 

 but that up to now there had been no subsequent captures. 

 It was only obtained by netting it from a boat. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited male and female specimens of the 

 grasshopper, Goiitpliocenis nifiis, from Bookham Conmion. 

 It is a somewhat local species in this country, and easil\' 

 recognised b)- its knobbed antennae, which are conspicuously 

 white at the tip. 



Mr. Turner exhibited specimens of the larv:e of PJiorodesnm 



