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J. Wainwriglit each showed boxes taken from their collections containing the 

 TachinidcE. Mr. P. W. Abbott showed single specimens of Leucania ohsoleta and 

 Senta maritima from near Ely. — Colbban J. WAiNWEiaHT, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : April 9th, 1894, 

 the last Meeting of the winter session.— Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — " Lepidoptera of Prescot," by the Eev. R. 

 Freeman ; " A Note on Aculeate Hymenoptera and Diurnal Lepidoptera during 

 March, 1894," by Mr. Willoughby G-ardner, F.R.Q-.S. ; and " Ammophila lutaria" 

 by Mr. C. E. Stott. The papers were all illustrated by specimens. Eeports of the 

 additions to the lists of the Insect Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire for the years 

 1891-2-3 were read, as follows: — Coleoptera and SemipteraSeteroptera, hj M.r. 

 W. E. Sharp ; Hymenoptera, by Mr. Willoughby Grardner ; and Lepidoptera by 

 Messrs. Capper and Pierce. The lists showed that many important additions had 

 been made to these lists, and that steady work was being done in the neglected 

 Orders. Mr. Jones exhibited a number of Tcsniocampa taken at sallows from 

 Llangollen. Mr. Crabtree, Callimorpha Hera and light varieties of Zygcena filipen- 

 dulce. Miss Tomlin, of Chester, a number of Hymenoptera from Madras. The Kev. 

 E. Freeman, Shopalocera from North- West India. Mr. Sharp, a collection of local 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera. — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Secretary, 7, The Elms, Dingle, 

 Liverpool. 



The South London Entomological and Natxteal History Society: 

 March 22nd, 1894.— E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. J. E. Tarbat, The Common, Weybridge, was elected a Member. 



Mr. South exhibited a long bred series of Tceniocampa gothica, L., including 

 many var. gothicina, which he had received from Mr. Eose, of Barnsley. The whole 

 were large, and of a deep red shade ; also buds of Arundo phragmites, L., from 

 Hampshire, which were infested by a large Dipterous larva. Mr. Turner, a long 

 series of Hybernia leucophearia, Schiff., taken this year, including a considerable 

 number of melanic forms. Mr. Adkin, a series of the same species from the New 

 Forest, the common form among them being the white banded one. Mr. Auld, a 

 very large recently bred specimen of Ocneria dispar, L. Mr. Sauze, a locust 

 {(Edipoda tartarica) captured at Brixton among vegetables imported from Italy. 

 Several members noted that Tceniocampa munda, Esp., Asphalia flavicornis, L., 

 Diurnea fagella, Fb., and Semioscopus avellanella, Hb., were out. 



April \2th, 1894.— The President in the Chair. 



The President referred to the great loss the Society had sustained by the death 

 of Mr. J. Jenner Weir, who had always taken such an active interest in its meetings, 

 and a resolution was unanimously adopted that a letter of condolence and sympathy 

 should be sent to Mrs. Weir. Mr. Carpenter exhibited long series of Hyhernia 

 leucophearia, Schiff., from Coombe Wood, West Wickliam, and the New Forest, 

 showing the typical forms in each place, also ova of Trachea piniperda, Panz. 

 Mr. Adkin, for Mr. Billupe, the following rare Diptera : Meigenia majuscula, from 



