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Shevington Vicarage, nr. Wigan, and Mr. A. R. Davidson, Foster 

 Road, Formby, were elected members of tbe Society. 



Paper. —A paper was read by Mr. S. Gordon Smith, F.E.S., 

 entitled " A year's collecting of Macro-Lepidoptera." In this most 

 interesting paper Mr. Smith related his experiences in pursuit of 

 Lepidoptera from the autumn of 1919 until October of last year. 

 Delamere Forest came in for a good deal of attention and by persistent 

 hard work Mr. Smith has obtained some lovely sets of variable 

 insects ; he shewed that Nyssia hispidaria, previously considered rare 

 in the forest, was quite a common insect, and had further established, 

 by counting a large number of moths on the trees, that Phigalia 

 pedaria var. inonacharia occurred in the proportion of about one to 

 three of the type in this locality. A large part of the paper was taken 

 up with the results of breeding ; large numbers of the larva? of the 

 Vanesddae in particular passed through the cages and yielded some 

 fine varieties. Probably the most interesting section of the paper was 

 that dealing with the visitors to electric light. The author had 

 installed a 2000 C.P. lamp on the balcony of his house overlooking 

 the River Dee, and the flat, open country beyond. Records of 

 temperature and weather were kept and their bearing on the number 

 of insects noted. Tharnnonoma brunneata, Acronicta aim and its black 

 aberration, Cirrhoedia aserampelina and Dicraniira furculq were ampng 

 the species that came to light. A discussion ensued in which 

 Professor Newstead, the Rev. F. M. B. Carr, and Mr. Wm. Mansbridge 

 took part. A vote of thanks was carried by acclamation. 



Aberrations of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. Carr exhibited a 

 variable series of Peridromia saucia, also of Xanthia ferritf/inea, 

 Calocampa exoleta and C. vetusta, all taken in his garden at Alvanley 

 on sugar and rotten fruit, and from Prince's Risboro' a series of 

 Thera juniperata. 



December 20th. — Annual Meeting.— -Address. — The President read 

 an address entitled " The Lepidoptera of Wicken Fen " ; he also 

 exhibited series of insects in illustration. Other exhibits of Fen 

 insects were made by Messrs. Wm. Mansbridge, C. P. Rimmer, and 

 S. Gordon Smith. . 



New Member. — Mr. J. B. Garner-Richards, the Liverpool Collegiate 

 School, Shaw Street, Liverpool, was elected a member of the Society. 



The South London Entomological Society. 



December 9th. — New Members. — Mr. J. J. Joicey, F.E.S., The Hill, 

 Witley, Mr. G. Talbot, F.E.S., The Hill Museum, Witley, Mr. A. J. 

 Wightman, 35, Talbot Terrace, Lewes, and Mr. L. Ford, Park Hill, 

 Bexley, were elected members. 



Mr. Sperring exhibited a Cassid, Aspidomorpha sp., from Central 

 Uganda. 



Mr. Main made a series of remarks on the keeping of ants in 

 artificial formicaria. 



Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone, further series of dwarf At/Hades coridon 

 from Surrey and a second brood of Euphyia pricata. 



Mr. Bowman, aberrations of Polyonunatus icarus from Folkestone. 



Mr. B. S. Williams, Bithys tjitercus ab. major from Cornwall and an 

 asymmetrical Coenonytnpha panvphilus. 



Mr. Goodman, a pupa of Hyles euphorbiae from a Courmayeur larva. 



