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Corymbites quercus, var. ochropterus, Steph., taken at Armagh by the Rev. W. F. 

 Johnson ; also galls on Lamium purpureum, L., and Torymus abdominalis , Boh., the 

 parasite bred from the same. 



July llth, 1889.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Weir exhibited a specimen of Pararge Egeria, L., taken by Dr. Percy 

 Rendall at Puerto Ventura, one of the Canaries ; it was apparently the variety 

 Xiphia, Fab. Mr. West, of Streatham, specimens of Cidaria dotata, L., with dark 

 banded var., taken in his own garden. Mr. J. A. Clark, specimens of Retinia resi- 

 nella, L., and Mr. Tugwell made remarks upon its curious habit of feeding and 

 making its cocoon in resinous matter. Mr. Turner, a remarkable albino decoloration 

 of Melanippe fluctuate*, L. Mr. Adkin, Spilosoma mendica, Clerck, var. rustica, 

 Hb., bred from selected parents ; the offspring largely following their parents. Mr. 

 N. E. Warne, Caenonympha Davus, Fb., from Cumberland ; it was remarked that, 

 like most English specimens, it differed on the under-side from the unicolorous 

 Scotch forms. Mr. Weir, leaves of TJrtica dioica, L., with a number of dead flies 

 attached, surrounded by a fungus. Mr. Billups, clusters of Anthrax ibis, L., with 

 parasites of the genus Uncyrtus ; Orgilus obscurator, Ns., bred from larvae feeding 

 on sallow ; also Apanteles ruficrus, Hal., in cocoon with remains of its host, Diloba 

 cceruleocephala, L. Mr. Tugwell exhibited stems of Salix repens, L., with what 

 appeared to be galls closely resembling in appearance the berries of Vaccinium. 



July 25th, 1889.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a fawn-coloured variety of Argynnis Adippe, L. ; also 

 two varieties of Argynnis Euphrosyne, L. Mr. West, Apamea ophiogramma, Esp., 

 taken in bis garden at Streatham. Mr. R. Adkin, examples of Selenia lunaria, Schiff., 

 Amphidasys betularia, L., Odontop>era bidentata, Clerck., and Bupalus piniaria, L., 

 bred from larvae or pupse received from Forres. Mr. Frohawk, living larva? of 

 Nemeobius Lucina, L. Mr. Wellman, bred series of Sesia tipuliformis, Clerck., S. 

 niyopiformis, Bork., S. formic If ormis, Esp., and S. niuscif ormis, Lasp., the last from 

 Isle of Man. Mr. Auld, three specimens of Callimorpha Hera, L., var. lutescens, 

 Staud., bred from ova of the same variety, taken in Devon, 1888. Mr. T. R. Billups, 

 six out of the seven species of social wasps indigenous to this country, and read 

 notes thereon. Remarks were made by several members on the failure this season 

 of sugar to attract moths, and a discussion as to the cause of this ensued. 



August 8th, 1889. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Dawson exhibited a specimen of Deilephila livornica, Esp., taken near 

 Plymouth in 1888; a melanic form of Tceniocampa incerta, Hufn., taken at Plum- 

 stead ; two varieties of Polyommatus Phlceas, L., taken at Plumstead. Mr. Dennis 

 showed forms of Bryophila perla, H., including yellow specimens, and one having 

 the superior wings almost suffused with black. Mr. R. Adkin, a specimen of Chcero- 

 campa porcellus, L., bred from a larva found last year, and which was put into a 

 box without any earth, and had spun a cocoon some way from the bottom of the 

 box, within which it pupated. Mr. Joy, a variety of Epinephele hyperatithas, L., 

 having the spots on the under-side unusually large. Mr. Billups, a female of 

 Bracon Roberta, Wesm., taken in his garden at Peckham ; also series of Ascog aster 

 varipes, Wesm. (both sexes), and A. instabilis, Wesm., and read notes; also galls on 

 Salix herbacea, and their maker, Nematus herbacece, Cam., from Aberdeen. A com- 

 munication was read from Mr. Cockerell, on " Bees and Poppy-flowers." — H. W. 

 Barker, Hon. Sec. 



