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Abebbation of Aplecta nebulosa, etc. — Mr. W. Mansbridge, Aj^lecta 

 nehulosa, and its black aberration robsoni, bred from ova deposited by 

 a wild black female ; a long series of Macaria litnrata and var. nigro- 

 fulvata, both from Delamere; a series of Cahera pusaria var. rotnndaria 

 from Knowsley ; a series of Rumia luteolata from Allerton, showing 

 seasonal variation between the spring and autumn broods. Coleopteea 

 FBOM Doncasteb. — Dr. Corbett, beetles from the Doncaster district, 

 including the very rare Carpophilus sexpustiilatus, recently taken in an 

 isolated locality, and undoubtedly indigenous British specimens. 

 Oekney coleopteea, etc. — Messrs. J. Dutton and Geo. Ellison, 

 interesting aberrations of Cicindela campestris, Ar/abus nebulosns, 

 Coelambus novemlineatm, Otiorhynchus blandus, and many others from 

 the Orkney islands, collected during a visit last summer to that 

 locality. Fleas pabasitic on Micbotus obcadensis. — Mr. Geo. Ellison 

 also exhibited two specimens of the Orkney vole, Microtus orcadensis, 

 a rare British mammal, together with its parasitic fleas, C pemcilliger, 

 C. gallinae and T. agyrtes, and stated that all these parasites were 

 well-known to occur on the domestic fowl. 



City of London Entomological Society. — October 2nd, 1906. — 

 Exhibits. — Polyommatus icabus from Witherslack, with fringes black- 

 spotted, as in P. hellargus, Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor. Phobodesma 

 SMABAGDABiA, a Specimen without the transverse white lines (ab. alinea, 

 Burrows), Mr. A Harrison. Cucullia astebis, bred from larvae found 

 on sea-aster, on the Essex marshes, Mr. A. W. Mera, Papilio 

 MACHAON, with red coloration in all the lunules on hindwings, 

 Mr. L. W. Newman. Acidalia subsebiceata and A. mabginepunctata, 

 melanic specimens from North Cornwall, Mr. L. B. Prout for 

 Mr. G. B. Oliver. Scoeia dealbata, a series from Wye Downs, 

 June, 1906 ; Phbyxus livobnica, taken at Torquay, June 2nd, 

 1906, and Choetodes moeeisii (bondii), Folkestone, July 10th, 1906, 

 Mr. V. E. Shaw. October 16th, 1906. — Pteeophobus beachydactylus, 

 a series, bred 1906, from the egg, the parents having been taken as 

 larvae in Switzerland, in May, 1905, Dr. T. A. Chapman. Noctua 

 XANTHOGBAPHA, melanic specimens from Dalnaird Bridge, Mr. J. A. 

 Clark. Ccenonympha typhon, the type from Aberdeen, and var. 

 EOTHLiEBii from Witherslack, and Penryth, Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor. 

 Anchocelis lunosa, varying from dark brown to sand colour, from 

 Sandown, Isle of Wight, Mr. G. H. Heath. Euchloe cabdamines, ^ , 

 with the orange tip broken up into alternate strips of orange and 

 yellow. Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson. Laphygma exigua, a picked series of 

 specimens, taken at Sandown, Isle of Wight, September 8th to 16th, 

 exhibiting the range of variation, Mr. L. W. Newman. Polia xantho- 

 MisTA, taken at Bude, Mr. L. B. Prout. Heliothis peltigeba, a 

 specimen bred from the egg, laid by female taken in Dorsetshire, the 

 imago emerged from the pupa within 42 days of hatching, Mr. Alfred 

 Sich. Laphygma exigua, a specimen taken at Pinner, Mr. H. E. 

 Tautz. Teyph^na ianthina, melanic, bred from ova from the New 

 Forest, Mr. A. J. Willsdon. Mr. L. B. Prout stated that larvjB of 

 Laphygma exigua had pupated in a warm room twenty days after 

 emergence from the egg. 



The South London Entomological and Natubal Histoey Society. 

 — October 11th, 1906. — Deaconia eusina. — Mr. Kaye, a specimen of 



