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BiKMINGHAM ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Nov. \St7l, 1889. — Ml'. H. TrNALEY, 



Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. C. Tje showed Ilimera pennaria and other insects taken at light near 

 Yardley. Mr. H. M. Lee sliowed Dasycampa ruhiginea from Sutton, Surrey. The 

 evening was devoted to entering up records of captures of Butterflies by Members, 

 in the Midlands, in a book provided for the purpose. 



December 2nd, 1889. — Mr. W. Qr. Blatch, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. Tunaley showed Cidaria truncata and C. immanata, pointing out that 

 a distinguishing mark lay in the shape of the bars on the underwings, which, in 

 immanata formed an acute angle, and in iru.cata were rounded. He also showed 

 Agrotis agathina from Sutton. Mr. C. J. Wainwright showed Boarmia repandata 

 var. conversaria from Wyre Forest. Mr. W. Gr. Blatch read a paper on the Coleoptera 

 taken on a small mossy bank near Knowle. lie described all the natural features 

 of the place, and gave the list of species, now numbering 412. Most of these species 

 lived on the spot all the year round, and casual visitors had not been taken. — 

 COLBBAN J. Wainweight, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society oe London: December 4:th,lBiSQ. — The Eight Hon. 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Prof. Franz Klapalek, of the Zoological Department, Eoyal Museum, Prague, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Lionel de Nieeville, a branch of 

 a walnut tree, on which was a mass of eggs laid by a butterfly belonging to the 

 LyccenidcB. He also exhibited two specimens of this butterfly which Mr. de Niceville 

 had referred to a new genus, and described as CTiatoprocta odata. The species was 

 said to occur only in the mountainous districts of North-West India, at elevations 

 of 5000 to 10,000 feet above the sea level. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited the eggs of Piezosternum subulatum, Thunb., a bug from 

 South America. These eggs were taken from the interior of a specimen which had 

 been allowed to putrify before being mounted. Although the body of the parent 

 had completely rotted away, the eggs were in a perfect state of preservation, and the 

 cellular condition of the yelk was very conspicuous. Dr. Sharp also exhibited a 

 specimen of Poeeilochroma Lewisii, Dist., a Pentatomid bug from Japan of a dull 

 green colour, which, when damped with water, became almost instantly of a metallic 

 copper colour. 



Mr. J. H. Leech exhibited a large number of Lepidoptera recently collected for 

 him by Mr. Pratt in the neighbourhood of Ichang, Central China. The collection 

 included about fifty-six rew species of butterflies and forty new species of moths. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes observed that he noticed only two genera in this collection 



