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darter and duller colours with heat and paler and brighter colours with cold ; Mr. 

 Bradley had, however, taken some very light forms in September and October, and 

 they must, therefore, have been bred during hot months. Mr. Bradley also showed 

 five species of Biptera all new to the British list, namely, Dactylolahis gracilipes, 

 Lw., Gonomyia jecunda, Lw., Ephelia varinervis, Ztt., Clinocera lamellata, Lw., 

 and Didea fasciata, Macq. Mr. Gr. T. Bethune-Baker showed Cramhus furcatellus, 

 C. ericellus, and Psodos coracina, all from Eannoch. Mr. Q-. H. Kenrick showed a 

 box full of insects taken by himself in Sutherlandshire this autumn, including 

 Calocampa solidaginis, C. vetusta (common), C. exoleta, E2^unda nigra, Noctua 

 umbrosa, Agrotis suffusa, &c. ; he said that the specimens of C. solidaginis, of 

 which he took a nice series, were lighter and greyer than the Cannock forms. Mr. 

 W. Harrison showed three boxes of Hymenoptera taken during the year, and in- 

 cluding Andrena Trimmerana from a spot in Edgbaston, where he had seen it for 

 several years ; this year, for the first time, he has seen and taken the parasite, 

 Nomada alternata, and it was commoner than its host ; there were also in the boxes 

 Halictus Smeathmanellus, 3Iimesa DaMbomii, Crahro unicolor, Ccelioxys vectis, Osmia 

 iicolor, &c. Mr. A. H. Martineau showed also a box of Hymenoptera taken this 

 year, including Crahro interruptus taken at Middleton Woods, Mimesa DaMbomii 

 from Wyre Forest, and Agenia variegata from Selsby, Grloucester. Mr. Wainwright 

 showed three boxes from his collection, containing the Family SyrpJiidas. Mr. Q-. 

 W. Wynn showed a box of Lepidoptera taken this year, including Notodonta chaonia, 

 Hadena genistcB, Thecla rubi, &c., from Wyre Forest. Mr. H. J. Sands showed 

 some fine specimens of Vespa crahro from Alvechurch, where it has been unusually 

 abundant ; also a series of Demas coryli from the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, Botys 

 hyalinalis from Wyre, &c. Mr. E. C. Eossiter showed Folia cki, Melanippe hastata, 

 ChcBrocampa porcellus, Aspilates strigillaria, Cerigo matura, &c., all from Wyre 

 Forest, also Calymnia affinis from Clent. — Colbean J. Wainweight, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashieb and Cheshiee Entomological Society. — Annual Meeting-: 

 January 8th,, 1894.— Mr. S. J. Cappee, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following officers were appointed : President, Mr. S. J. Capper ; Vice- 

 President, Dr. J. W. Ellis ; Secretary, Mr. F. N. Pierce ; Treasurer, Mr. C. E. 

 Stott ; and Librarian, Mr. H. Lock. The President, in the course of a short address, 

 thanked the Members for the honour they had bestowed upon him in re-electing him 

 as President. This was the seventeenth time he had acted in such a capacity. He 

 congratulated the Society on its continued success. They were now entering on 

 their seventeenth year, and it was most gratifying to state that they had never been 

 in a more prosperous condition than at present. The sudden death, a few months 

 ago, of the Rev. H. H. Higgins, deprived them of one of their most prominent 

 Members. The retiring Vice-President, Mr. W. E. Sharp, delivered the annual 

 address ; the subject was, " The New Entomology," and the writer after briefly 

 sketching the origin and historical development of entomology, drew attention to the 

 manner in which this study had been influenced by the modern methods of scientific 

 enquiry. In the course of the evening a number of exhibits were displayed. — 

 F. N. Pieece, Hon. Sea., 7, The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool. 



