60 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Nisoniades tages, from Cartmel, Lanes. Mr. S. P. Doudney, Di-yas 

 paphia, and var. valesina, also a xanthic male with bleached hindwings 

 and a female with one hindwing much smaller than the other, 

 Limenitis sibilla, Zygaena meliloti, Gnoplios obscuraria, and Hyria 

 muricata, all from the New Forest ; Brenthis euphrosyne, Niuneria 

 pulveraria, Hemerophila ahruptaria, and Notodonta trepida, from Burnt 

 Wood, also a very dark aberration of Arctia caia bred from a larva 

 found at" Huyton. Mr. J. W. Griffin, nice series of the following :— 

 Bombyx riibi, Taeniocampa opima, and Orthosia iqjsilon, from Wallasey; 

 Sphinx ligustri, Mimas tiliae, Arctia villica, Psilura nionacha, and 

 Catocala nupta, from various localities. The Kev. F. M. B. Carr 

 brought Polygonia c-albam from the Mold district, Taeniocampa opima 

 from Frodsham, and the following from Delamere; — Abraxas sylvata 

 (ulmata) a long series, and Eupithecia coronata; he also showed Plusia 

 moneta and stdited that this year he had found the larva in his garden at 

 Alvanley. Mr. W. Mansbridge showed the following from N. Staffs:—^ 

 Hesperia malvae, Nola confusalis, Bomolocha fontis, Tephrosia hiundralaria 

 var. delamerensis, T. luridata, Boarmia repandata, very dark forms, 

 Eurymene dolobraria, Lobophora halterata, and var. zonata, and 

 Eupithecia debiliata, from W. Yorks, Odontopora bidentata, some very 

 yellow specimens, also Boarmia repayidata var. nigra, from Knowsley, 

 and Platyptilia ochrodaetyla from Co. Durham. Mr. H. B. Prince, 

 several boxes of Lepidoptera from localities adjacent to Liverpool. 

 Mr. Leonard West had on view some beautifully drawn plates of various 

 aquatic larvae. 



November 18th, 1918. — New members. — Messrs. Edward Whitley, 

 Ashleigh, (jreenbank Drive, Liverpool ; S. Gordon Smith, Brant wood. 

 Dee Banks, Chester ; and Alfred Newstead, Grosvenor Museum, 

 Chester. 



Aberrations of P. hastiana. — Mr. W. Mansbridge brought his 

 series of Peronea hastiana, comprising most of the named forms and 

 some unnamed ; he also showed the varieties bred this season, these 

 included vars. mayrana, leucopheana, radiana, divisiana, centro-vittana, 

 and autumnana, and stated that mayrana was the most frequent, the 

 others being only of rare occurrence. 



MiCRO-LEPiDOPTERA. — Mr. W. ,A. Tyerman showed bred series of 

 Hyponomeuta euonymelliis and captured Semioscopus phryganella from 

 localities in the Liverpool district. 



Local Races. — Mr. S. P. Doudney, Odontojjora bidentata from 

 Rainhill and Delamere, also the local race of Euproctis [Liparis) 

 similis with brown anal tuft from Huyton. 



The birch Hemipteron. — Mr. H. M. Hallett exhibited the 

 Pentatomid bug, Acanthosoma haem,orrhoidalis, usually coiasidered to 

 be attached to birch, but these had been captured a long way from the 

 nearest birch. 



CoLEOPTERA LOCALLY NEW. — Mr. R. Wilding had a large number of 

 Coleoptera from Cartmel, and called attention to the following as 

 being new to the Lancashire and Cheshire list, viz. : — Philonrhus lucens, 

 Silpha niijrita, and Scaphidium i-maculatum ; he further included in 

 his exhibit a very fine series of varieties of Rhaglum bifasciatum, from 

 the same locality. 



