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with great care, but he did not consider that they belonged to a new species. 

 He was unable to distinguish them from Tortrix viburnana. Mons. A. 

 Wailly exhibited preserved larvae, in various stages, of Citheronia regalis, 

 which he had bred from ova received from Iowa, United States. He said 

 that the natives called this larva the Hickory Horned Devil, and that the 

 specimens exhibited were the first that had been bred in this country. 

 Mons. Wailly further exhibited three female specimens of Anther ma yama- 

 mai bred from cocoons received from Japan ; also a nest of cocoons of 

 Bombyx radama, received from the west coast of Madagascar. Prof. J. B. 

 Smith, of the United States, and Col. Swinhoe took part in a discussion on 

 the habits of the larvse of atheroma regalis, and as to the period at which 

 they dropped their spines prior to pupating. Dr. Sharp exhibited several 

 specimens of a weevil, Ectopsisfer rug alls, the ends of the elytra of which 

 bore a close resemblance to the section of a twig cut with a sharp knife. 

 He said he had received the specimens from Mr. G. V. Hudson, of 

 Wellington, New Zealand, who stated that they were found resting in large 

 numbers on dead trunks and branches of Panax arborea in the forests. 

 Mr. G. C. Champion stated that the species of ForficulidcB, captured by 

 Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., in Tasmania, and exhibited by himself at the 

 meeting of the Society in April last, was, he believed, referable ioAnisolabis 

 tasmanica, Bormans, described in the ' Comptes Rendus ' of the Ent. Soc. 

 Belgique, 1880, p. Ixviii. The Rev. A. E. Eaton made some remarks on 

 the synonymy of the Psychodidce, and stated that since August, 1890, he 

 had identified all of the British species in Mr. Verrall's list, except Sycorax 

 silacea. Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., communicated a paper entitled 

 " The Effect of Change of Chmate upon the Emergence of certain species 

 of Lepidoptera." A discussion followed, in which Mr. Stainton, Mr. Barrett, 

 Dr. Sharp, and Mr. M'Lachlan took part. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Sept. 24th, 1891, W. H. Tugwell, Esq., Ph.C, President, in the chair. 

 Mr. South referred to Mr. Weir's remarks, at the previous meeting, on 

 specimens of Arctia cala, L., with black antennae, and exhibited two speci- 

 mens from Mr. Leach's collection, — one English, the other from Japan, 

 both having blackish antennae. Mr. Tugwell also exhibited two examples 

 from his series. Mr. C. G. Barrett pointed out that in none of the speci- 

 mens did he consider the antennae could be described as black. Mr. D. J. 

 H. Carpenter exhibited very blue female forms of Lycana icarus, Rott., from 

 Sussex. Mr. Barker, a specimen of Leucania albipuncta, H., taken at 

 Folkestone during August. Mr. Jenuer Weir, a specimen of Bombyx mori, 

 L., bred from a cocoon found by him on a mulberry tree in his garden at 

 Beckenham, and stated that, although he had made every possible enquiry, 

 he could not learn that anyone in the neighbourhood had been rearing the 

 species. Mr. Tugwell and Mr. South both remarked on the wings of the 

 specimen being fully developed, Mr. South adding that in Japan there 

 were two forms of the species, a domestic one and a wild one, and it was 

 possible that some one might have been rearing this wild form. Mr. 

 Tugwell, specimens of Epinephile tUhomis, L., with three distinct ocelli 

 on each of the superior wings. Mr. Tutt remarked that he had recently 

 recorded this form. Mr. Frohawk had noticed it at Chattenden, Mr. 

 Carrington in Essex, Mr. Hawes had received it from Devon and Norfolk, 

 Mr. Briggs had taken it at Wandsworth and Wimbledon. Mr, C. J. Barrett 

 said that although he had examined large numbers of the species m 



