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pupae received from Cambridge ; Nemeobius lucina, L., bred from ova ; and 

 Eupithecia venosata, Fb., wbicb had been two years in pupae, and were 

 received from the Isle of Man. Mr. Nussey, Acronycta myricce, Gn., from 

 Eannoch. Mr. F. Warne, Nemeobius lucina, L., Macro glossa fuciformis, L., 

 &c, from Horsley. Mr. Robson, a banded variety of Zonosoma punctaria, 

 L. Mr. Tugwell, Nemoria viridata, L., and a prettily marked male 

 resembling the Rannoch form of Biston hirtaria, Clerck. Mr. R. Adkin, 

 small and brightly marked specimens of Herbula cespitalis, Schiff., from 

 the Land's End, on behalf of Mrs. Hutchinson ; also larvae of Larentia 

 ccesiata, Lang, from the Grampian Hills, feeding on heather ; and cases and 

 imagines of Psyche villosella, Och. Mr. R. Adkin further showed nests of 

 a species of wasp attached to heather from Bournemouth, and from which 

 the imago had just emerged. Mr. Billups said the species was Eumenes 

 coarctata, L., one of the solitary wasps, and the only representative of the 

 genus in Britain : he then described the habits of the insect, and exhibited 

 various parasites belonging to the families Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae, 

 Syrphidae, and Staphylinidae, to the attacks of which insects the Vespidae 

 are particularly subject. Mr. Billups also exhibited nests of solitary wasps 

 from Borneo, with their maker ; also a very fine nest of a social wasp, 

 Palopceus architectus, St. Farg, with imago from Kentucky. Mr. 

 Henderson, some abnormally large specimens of Paniscus cephalotes, 

 Holmgr., bred from larvae of Dicranura vinula. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — May 19th, 1890. — Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley in the chair. Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Trachea piniperda and 

 Eupithecia abbreviata from Sutton Park. Mr. G. W. Wynn showed Trachea 

 piniperda from Marston Green, from which place it had not hitherto been 

 recorded. A number of local captures of Lepidoptera were reported for 

 entry in the book provided for the purpose of recording them. 



June 2nd, 1890.— The President, Mr. W. G. Blatch, in the chair. Mr. 

 G. W. Wynn showed Bombyx rubi from Sutton Park. Mr. H. M. Lee 

 showed a small wasp, which was taken carrying off a large Tipula. Mr. 

 R. C. Bradley showed a box of Tortrices. Mr. W. G. Blatch showed 

 Coleoptera from Ludlow, new to the Midland list, as follows : — Trechus 

 longicornis, Perileptus areolatus, Homalota fragilis, H. longula, H. deli- 

 catula, H. subtilissima, Acobius signaticornis, Lathrobium angusticolle, 

 Medon ripicola, Thinobius linearis, T. longipennis, Acrulia inflata, 

 Trichonyx markelii, and a species of Scopceus, which may be new. Mr. 

 Blatch also showed Homalota fallaciosa, Acidota crenata, and Mycetoporus 

 angulatus, from Sutton Park, the last being new to the Midland list. Mr. 

 H. Stone showed galls on yew, also some on a species of Abies, the latter 

 being apparently produced by a number of minute Acari, seated at the base 

 of the leaves and causing the stem to swell. — C. J. Wainwright, Hon. Sec. 



Penarth Entomological Society. — This Society, formed in 1888, 

 held its second Annual Exhibition and Conversazione on April 10th, in 

 the Public Hall, Penarth. C. T. Vachell, M.D., of Cardiff, presided. 

 The growing importance of the Society was manifested by the large 

 gathering of scientists from the surrounding districts. The locality of 

 Penarth is particularly rich in its Fauna and Flora ; this, and the fact of 

 there being no entomological section in the Cardiff Naturalists' Association, 

 has contributed to the rapid growth of this Society, so as to render its re- 

 organization on a larger basis desirable. Several gentlemen of position and 



