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brod from larva) obtained in Norfolk. Mr. E. Adkin, a fine series of Aphalia ridens, 

 Fb., bred from pupa) received from the New Forest ; the specimens showed a con- 

 siderable amount of variation, some of the females being very white. Mr. T. R. 

 Billups, specimens of Bracon brevicornis, Wsm., parasitic on Ephestia Kuhniella ; 

 he remarked that Mr. Marshall once reared the females from the galls of Andricus 

 terminates, Fab. ; Mr. W. F. Kirby had bred six males and one female from Ephestia 

 elutella, Hub. ; Herr Brischke obtained a male from Dioryctria abietella ; while 

 Mr. S. Webb, of Dover, had bred a male from Myelois ceratonia, Zell. Mr. Fenn 

 read a paper on " British Land and Freshwater Mollusca." 



June \Uh, 1888.— J. T. Caeeington, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited ringed forms of the larva of Trichiura eratcegi, L., from 

 Monkswood, and asked whether it was a common variety of the larva. Mr. Tugwell 

 said he had never met with this particular form, although in his experience the larva 

 of this species varied considerably. Mr. Lowrey, a male Tceniocampa stabilis,Yiew., 

 taken in copula with a female T. gothica, L. ; ova were obtained, of which only a 

 few hatched, the larvae eventually died. Mr. West, Streatham, a moth reared from 

 a larva found in Switzerland, and which was thought to be Acronycta leporina, L. ; 

 also a larva found on breaking up some tea chests from China, with pieces of the 

 wood showing the ravages — possibly a species of Buprestidce. Mr. B. Adkin, speci- 

 mens of Cnephasia musculana, Hb., Eriopsela fractifasciana, Haw., Phoxopteryx 

 comptana, Fr5l., Euposcilia ciliella, Hb., taken at the Society's Excursion to Horsley 

 on May 26th, and remarked, that in his experience, the present season was even 

 later than in 1887. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell on dichroisni 

 in the bands and marking of Sesia, Zygcena, Arctia, &c, referring to a note by Mr. 

 Frohawk in the " Field " (1887, p. 828) as to his having taken a " white-banded " 

 example of Sesia culiciformis at West Wickham. Mr. Tutt read an article by Mr. 

 Cockerell from the " Canadian Entomologist " for May, " On the nature of seasonal 

 dimorphism in Bhopalocera." 



Mr. J. T. Williams mentioned that in the neighbourhood of Foot's Cray, Kent, 

 the larvae of Bombyx neustria, L., were unusually abundant ; also that he had 

 noticed a number of hibernated specimens of Vanessa cardui, L. Mr. Carrington 

 and Mr. Tutt also recorded the appearance of specimens of V. cardui, and referred 

 to the large number of. hibernated specimens of Plusia gamma noticed in different 

 districts. — H. W. Babkee, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London : June 6th, 1888. — Dr. D. Shaep, F.L.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Q eorge Meyer Darcis, of 32, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Pascoe brought for exhibition a book of fine plates of Mantidce drawn by 

 Prof. Westwood, which it had been hoped would have been published by the Bay 

 Society. 



Mr. E. Saunders exhibited a species of Hemiptera, Monanthia angustata, H.-S., 

 new to Britain, which he had captured by sweeping, near Cisbury, Worthing. The 

 insect is rather closely allied to the common Monanthia cardui, L. 



