72 ' [August, 1388. 



Mr. Jager, two specimens of Arctia villica, L., with dark hind-wings, forms of 

 JEupithecia rectangulata, L., and the larva of Callimorpha Hera, L. Mr. R. Adkin, 

 Eupithecia togata, Hb., bred from Perthshire larvae, which varied much as to coloiir. 

 Mr. Dobson, Asphalia ridens, Fb., and Notodonta chaonia, Hb., bred from larvae 

 beaten in the New Forest. Mr. Turner, a variety of Vanessa cardui, L. Mr. West, 

 of Greenwich, examples of Colymbetes notatus, Berg., Cercyon aquaticus, Mull., 

 Heterocerus obsoletus, Curt., taken on the Salt Marshes, Milton, near Gravesend. 

 The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, a sketch of a Thomisid 

 spider on flower of Ligusticum montanum, Benth and Hook, observed by him in 

 Custer County, Colorado, and read notes on the deceptive likeness of the spider to the 

 flower. Mr. Weir said it was not at all unusual ; in England there were several 

 species of spiders closely resembling the flowers on which they were in the habit of 

 sitting for the purpose of obtaining their food. — H. W. Baekee, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: July 4th, 1888. — Dr, D. Shaep, F.L.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Hon. Lionel Walter de Rothschild, of Tring Park, Tring, Hertfordshire, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Enock exhibited male and female specimens of a spider received from 

 Colonel Le Grice, R.A., who had captured them at Folkestone on the 27th May last. 

 They had been submitted to the Eev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, F.R.S., who identified 

 them as Pellenes tripunctatus, a species new to Britain. Mr. Enock also exhibited 

 specimens of Merisus destructor (Riley), an American parasite of the Hessian Fly, 

 bred from British specimens of that insect. 



Mr. Wallis Kew exhibited a number of larvae of Adimonia tanaceti, Fab., found 

 in Lincolnshire, feeding on Scabious. 



Mr. Porritt exhibited a number of variable specimens of Arctia mendica, bred 

 from a batch of eggs found last year on a species of Rumex, at Huddersfield. Mr. 

 Porritt said that this species, in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, was often more 

 spotted than the typical form, but he had never before seen anything approaching in 

 extent the variation exhibited in these bred specimens. Out of forty-four specimens 

 (twenty-five males and nineteen females) not more than eight were like the ordinary 

 type of the species. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a quantity of Palingenia longicauda (in alcohol) from 

 Holland — the largest of the European JEphemeridce (Mayflies), and at the same time 

 one of the most local. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited the following species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from 

 Africa and Madagascar, recently described by him in the " Transactions " of the 

 Society, viz. : — Lema laticollis, Cladocera nigripennis, CEdionychis madagascariensis, 

 Blepharida intermedia, B. nigromaculata, Chrysomela madagascariensis, Sagra 

 opaca, Blepharida ornaticollis, B. laterimaculata, Mesodonta siibmetallic'a, 

 Schematizella viridis, Spilocephalus viridipennis, Apophylia smaragdipennis, 

 JEthonea variabilis. 



Mons. Alfred Wailly exhibited a large number of species of Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera, recently received by him from Assam, from the West Coast of Africa, 

 and from South Africa. He also exhibited eggs and living larvae of Bombyx Cythercea, 

 and made remarks on the life-history of the species. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



