120 THE entomologist's record. 



A Surrey race of V. lo, Dwarf A. Coridon. — Mr. A. W. Buckstone, 

 bred series of Vanessa to from Surrey, including ab. cyanosticta, and 

 referred to various minor aberrations and variations in tbeir markings. 

 He also showed drawings, by the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows, of the 

 genitalia of the dwaif and other races of Agriades coridon, recently 

 discussed, and read the comments received with the sketches. 



C. NiGRiGELLA IN ITS CASE. — Mr. Bunnett, details of the life-history 

 of Coleophora nignceUa, and read notes on the mode of progression of 

 the case- bearing larva, with a series of photographs in illustration. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



December IQth, 1918. — Annual Meeting. — The reports of the 

 Council, the Hon. Treasurer, and the Hon. Librarian were presented 

 and adopted by the Meeting. 



Election of Officers and Council. — The following were then 

 elected as Officers and Council for the ensuing year, viz.: — President, 

 Richard Wilding; Vice-Presidents, Wm. Webster, F.R.S.A.I., S. P. 

 Doudney, Dr. G. B. Longstaff, M.A., F.E.S. ; Hon. Treasurer, Dr. 

 John Cotton ; lion. Librarian, F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. ; Hon. Sec, Wm. 

 Mansbridge, F.E.S.; Council, Dr. P. F. Tinne, M.A., J. W. Griffin,, 

 H. F. Carter, F.E.S., Dr. E. A. Cockayne, M.A., F.L.S., W. A. 

 Tyerman, Wm. Buckley, Prof. R. Newstead, M.Sc, F.R.S., G. F. 

 Mathew, P.L.S., Leonard West, Capfc. A. W. Boyd, M.C., F.E.S., 

 Dr. A. Randell Jackson, and W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



Annual Address. — The President read an address in which he 

 dealt with the folklore of insects and other creeping things. Many 

 interesting superstitions and tales were discussed. The address will 

 be printed in the Society's Report, and together with the same author's , 

 paper in the 1903 report, will form a very full account of this- 

 interesting subject. 



January 20th, 1919.^Paper. — Wr. W. A. Tyerman read a paper 

 dealing with his captures of Micro-lepidoptera during 1917 and 1918 

 in the Liverpool district. This interesting paper enumerated 211 

 species many of them not having been recorded for S. W. Lanes, since 

 the publication of the " Ellis List " in 1890 ; this good result is 

 probably owing to much of the author's collecting having been done in 

 places seldom visited by others. Anacampsis albipalpella, a single 

 specimen taken at Formby, is an addition to the Lane, and Ches. 

 fauna. Mr. Tyerman exhibited the collection, and was heartily 

 congratulated upon the very useful work he had accomplished. 



Paper. — Mr. W. Mansbridge then read a paper detailing his results 

 in breeding Aplecta nebulosa and its varieties ; he showed the different 

 families obtained as the progeny of selected parents, and suggested 

 how the black forms of the moth might arise in nature ; he also 

 stated that the percentage of black forms bred from wild larvse 

 obtained from a certain selected area had sensibly diminished in the 

 last four years, while so far as known, there was no increase in any 

 other part of Delamere Forest. Observations extending over the last 

 fifteen years were embodied in the paper. 



Exhibitions. — Mr. Leonard West had a collection of larval cases of 

 the caddis fly, some very curious forms of these little-known larval 

 habitations being represented. 



