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is not without interest to Entomologists, and I hope that some 

 information, in addition to that now given, may be elicited 

 from members of the Society — principally, whether they have 

 noticed a fondness or otherwise of yellow insects for pink 

 flowers, and whether the insects seemed aware of the difference 

 between these two colours." 



SEPTEMBER lyh, 1888. 

 J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 Mr. J. H. Keys was elected a member. 



Mr. H. A. Auld exhibited a large number of Dicycla 00, L., 

 taken at sugar, near Hayes, Kent, on the loth August last. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a melanic specimen of Boarmia 

 gemmaria, Brahm, taken at Ashdown Forest. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited fine series of the following Tortrices : 

 Argyrolepia ceneana, Hb., A. zephyrana, Tr., Etcpoecilia atri- 

 capitana, St., E. ainandana, H.-S., Retinia turionana, Hb., 

 Catoptria jidiana, Curt., Phoxopteryx derasana, Hb., Ephippi- 

 phora trigeniinana, St., and Cm^pocapsa pomonella, L., the last 

 named bred from berries of the white beam tree {Pyrus aria, 

 Sm.), also the following Tineae, Nematois fasciellus, Fb., 

 Cerostonia horridella, Tr., C. alpella, Schiff., ColeopJiora therinella, 

 Tgstr., and Gelechia seinidecandriella,T\iX^\{2\\, the last-named 

 bred from Cerastutni tetrandrum, Curt. 



Mr. VVellman exhibited bred examples of Noctua sobrina, 

 Gn., from Penh ; DianthcBcia irregidaris, Hufn., from Cam- 

 bridge. 



Mr. R. South exhibited Lyccena icarus, Rott , from Durham 

 and Rannoch, and read the following notes : — 



" The short series of Lycaina icarus from the county of 

 Durham which I exhibit this evening, shows not only the 

 ordinary forms of the species, but some which, so far as my 

 experience of icarus will warrant an opinion, are by no 

 means common forms, but on the contrary, most interesting 

 aberrations. As a whole the series, limited in number as it is, 

 may be regarded^as a fair sample of Lyccena icarus occurring in 

 the neighbourhood of Bishop Auckland and Castle Eden. The 

 most notable examples perhaps are the fourth B.A., $ and 

 the third B.A., and fourth C.E., ? 's in row i. The male 

 referred to has very distinct patches of black in the fringes. 



