99, THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
blue males, ab. suffusa, ab. minor, and ab. pallida males, and examples 
near ab. fowleri ; A. grossulariata, several dark Aberdeen forms and ab. 
varleyata ; Angerona prunaria, the results of eighteen years interbreed- 
ing and latterly to colour environment, those under orange environ- 
ment produced deeper orange, those under green became lighter and 
the orange colour absent, those under red produced deep reddish-orange 
males and deep chocolate banded females, and a series of ab. pickettaria, 
the half banded form. 
Tue Lonpon Narurat History Sociery. 
October 5th.—AGrRotips ExHipir—ED.—Mr. A. W. Mera exhibited a 
cabinet drawer of Agrotids. Menpr.ian, etc., rEsuLts.—Mr. L. W. 
Newman, a drawer of Aplecta nebulosa bred from ab. robsoni parents. 
From 400 ova hatched he bred 3850 imagines, which gave 50% ab. 
robsoni, 24% ab. thomsoni, and: 26% type; also representatives of a 
brood of Boarmia repandata bred froma g ab. conversaria and a light 
Hants 9; about 100 specimens were reared all of which were ? ab. 
conversaria. Races or P. patetta.—Mr. G. H. Heath, a long series of 
Plutella dalella, taken on the south border of Durham, in August, 
showing the extensive variation observed in one small wood. Mr. J. 
K. Gardner, a similar series from Epping Forest for comparison. 
RECENT CAPTURES IN ‘‘ OTHER oRDERS.’’—Mr. C. Nicholson, Lampyris 
noctiluca, Phytodecta viintnalis bred from larve, Creophilus mavillosus, 
Ledra aurita, Triecphora vulnerata, Dolycoris baccarum, Tipula gigantea, 
Ptychoptera contaminata, Echinomyia fera, Xylota sylvarum, Limosina 
coenosa aod puparium bred from a nest of Vespa yermanica, with a 
Phora from the same nest, identified provisionally by Mr. J. B. Collins 
as P. subluyubris, Wood, Ammophila campestris, Fanus jaculator, and a 
worker of Vespa vulgaris, which he said was the smallest wasp he had 
ever seen; attention was called to the disproportionately long antenne. 
A. VESTIGALIS AND PARASITE OF wasps.—Mr. Worsley-Wood, a short 
series of Aygrotis vestigialis ab. niyra, Tutt, from Surrey, and specimens 
of Hehinomyia possa, a dipteron parasitic on Dimorpha versicolora and 
Physocephala rufipes, from a wasp’s nest at Boxhill. Caprures ar 
Horstey.—Mr, W. E. King, interesting forms of Callophrys rubi from 
Horsley, and specimens of Hecatera serena, Dianthoecia conspersa, D. 
carpophaga, D. cucubali and D. capsincola from the same locality. 
AGrotips ExHipitED.—Mr. lL. B. Prout, a box of coast Agrotids, mostly 
from the Scotch coast, including one A. obelisca from Stonehaven, a 
new record for this locality. Liycmnm asrerrations.—Mr. C. H. 
Williams, varieties of Ayriades coridon including ab. marginata, ab. 
albina, ab. fowleri, ab. semisynyrapha, and ab. obsoleta. Papsr.—Dr. 
G. B. Longstaff, M.D., F.R.C.P., read a paper on ‘“ Points to observe 
in common insects,” illustrated by a series of lantern-shdes from 
photographs by Mr. Hamm, of Oxford. 
Lancashire AND CHESHIRE E\NToMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
April 19th, 1915.—Parrr.—A paper by Mr. Joseph Collins, Oxford, 
entitled «‘ Notes on the Family Pselaphidae,” was read to the Society. 
‘Mr. Collins reviewed in a very interesting manner the literature of the 
family and showed how his own work, and that of Mr. Dutton, of 
Helsby, had greatly assisted in clearing up many doubtful points in the 
determination of the various species; much of the material leading to 
