1898.] 89 



Both sexes of the same colour — analis, terminata, &c. 



Females with yellow collars — trilineata, muscaria, &c. 

 This was my father's favourite genus, and he took all the recorded species at 

 Q-lanvilles Wootton, except dives and Falleni. — C. W. Dale, G-lanvilles Wootton : 

 January 5th, 1898. 



Injury to cloth hy Sirex juvencus. — I was told the other day by a tweed mer- 

 chant that he had had some cloth destroyed by a new insect pest, so voracious as to 

 eat the very boards on which the cloth was rolled. I called at the warehouse and 

 was shown about six yards of cloth pierced with two parallel rows of round holes. 

 I did not see the flies at the time, but have had two sent me since. An examination 

 of the board, which is of fir an<l much worm eaten, shows that they have emerged 

 from the board, and that the destruction of the cloth is merely the result of their en- 

 deavour to escape, in accomplishing which the smaller fly had pierced twelve and 

 the other no less than fifteen plies, or more than an inch in thickness of solid cloth. 

 — W. G-EANT Guthrie, 6, Lockhart Place, Hawick, N.B. : February, 1898. 



[The two flies are males of Sirex juvencus, one of them of remarkably small 

 size. — Eds.]. 



BiBMiNGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY : February 7tk, 1898. — Annual 

 Meeting. — Mr. Gr. T. Bethtjnb-Baker, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Eeports of the Council, Treasurer, and Librarian were received, 

 and the Officers and Council elected. Mr. G-. T. Bethune-Baker being re-elected 

 President ; Mr. P. W. Abbott, Vice-President ; Mr. R. C. Bradley, Treasurer ; Mr. 

 A. H. Martineau, Librarian ; and Mr. C. J. Wainwright, Hon. Secretary. 



Mr. P. W. Abbott showed Eemerophila abruptaria, one of the ordinary pale 

 form, from Sutton, and a short series from North London, all more or less dark ; 

 one of these latter was caught on the door of a coal cellar, and was very dark, quite 

 evenly sufEused with dark umber, with the black transverse lines distinct, and some 

 of the pale lines showing, also the thorax remained pale ; the remainder were bred 

 by Mr. W. A. Southey, and one of them was quite as dark as the caught one, the 

 rest showing the usual arrangement of colours and markings, but the ground-colour 

 was throughout darker. Mr. R. C. Bradley showed Diodontus tristis (1 $ and 2 $ ) ; 

 1 Pemphredon lethifer, $ ; 1 Psen pallipes, $ ; and 1 Sphecodes pilifrons, S ; all 

 from Sutton, 1897. — Colbean J. Wainweight, Ron. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 January IZth, 1897. — Mr. R. Adkin, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a photograph of an ash and an elm tree, taken in 

 winter, to show the destructive character of their branching. Mr. Adkin, minor 

 varieties of Pararge Megcera, and contributed notes thereon. Mr. W. G. Pearce 

 brought a series of very dark Eemerophila abruptaria, bred from ova laid by a 

 female captured in north London. The Secretary read a paper communicated by 



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