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species from Sierra Leone, which had been recently described by Miss Sharp 

 in the ' Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist.' — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 

 — July 2±th, 1890. J. T. Carrington, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Messrs. R. Augustine Clark, M.A., A. Hewk, and W. G-. Bryant, were 

 elected members. Mr. Turner exhibited Noctua festiva, Hb., from Hamp- 

 stead, and a variety of the larvae of Bistort hirtaria, Leach, the usual brown 

 pigment not having developed. Mr. Joy, Collix sparsata, Hb., from 

 Wicken Fen, and larvae of the same species, which he had fed on knot- 

 grass. Mr. Wellman, a short series of Calymnia affinis, L., bred from 

 larva? taken at Chattenden ; also living larvae of Dianthcecia nana, Rott, 

 D. cucubali, Fues., and D. carpophaga, Bork., from Caterham. Mr. R. 

 Adkin, a bred series of Moma orion, Esp., from the New Forest. Mr. 

 Moore, a dark variety. of Arctia caia, L., the larvae from which it was bred 

 having been taken at Rotherhithe. Mr. West, Apamea ophiogramma, 

 Esp., and remarked that he had found the larvae of this species feeding iu 

 his garden at Streatham on ribbon grass. Mr. Carrington exhibited 

 botanical specimens from Southend, Essex. 



August 14th. — W. H. Tugwell, Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. 

 H. W. Street, was elected a member. Mr. Wellman exhibited Emmelesia 

 unifasciata Haw., bred from larvae obtained at West Norwood in 1888, the 

 species having been two years in pupa. Mr. South, Hypsipetes sordidata, 

 Fb., one being strongly banded with red and having a reddish patch at the 

 base of the primaries, bred from a larva found in Buckinghamshire; in 

 another the same markings were reproduced in a colour almost white ; the 

 larva from which this was bred was found in Devon, and both larvae were 

 fed on sallow. With reference to the first example Mr. South stated that 

 he had had some hundreds of this species through his hands, but had 

 never met with this particular form before. Mr. South also showed an 

 unusually dark form of Larentia didymata, L., from Durham, where it 

 had been exceedingly common. Mr. R. Adkin, Cleora glabraria, Hb., bred, 

 from the New Forest, and Coccyx tadella, Clerck., taken on the occasion 

 of the Society's excursion to Leatherhead. Mr. Moore, two varieties 

 of Abraxas grossulariata, L. Mr. Tugwell, on behalf of Mr. Gr. T. 

 Porritt, larvae of Eupithecia extensaria, on substituted food, Artemisia 

 abrotanum. Mr. Tugwell also exhibited a box of Arctia caia, L., of which 

 he stated he had bred some hundreds this season and only obtained one 

 variety, the wings of which did not expand. Mr. Hawes, living larvae of 

 Argynnis selene, Schiff., and A. euphrosyne, L., which were about to 

 hybernate. Mr. Jenner Weir, living larvae of Psyche vilbsella, Och., and 

 drew attention to the different kind of material from which the cases had 

 been constructed ; one singular case was formed entirely from pieces of rush , 

 each about one quarter of an inch in length, and although he had had this 

 specimen about two months it appeared not to have added to its case ; most 

 of the cases had been commenced with the fragments of grass and heath 

 afterwards used. He also showed one larva from which he had removed 

 the entire case, and had supplied it with strips of coloured paper, from 

 which in a few days it had formed a new habitation ; the coloured paper 

 had also been used by another specimen, which had not been deprived of 

 its case. During the last two mouths most of the specimens had doubled 

 the length of their cases ; the case was always made from the feeding or 

 proximal end, and never from the distal end, from which latter the imago 



