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had been two years in pupse, and were receiTed from tlie Isle of Man. Mr. Nussey, 

 Acronycta myricce, Grn., from Eannoch. Mr. F. Warne, Nemeohius Lucina, L., 

 Macroglossa fuciformis, L., &c., from Horsley. Mr. Robson, a banded variety of 

 Zonosoma punctaria, L. Mr. Tugwell, Nemoria viridata, L., and a prettily-marked 

 male resembling the Eannoch form of Biston hirtaria, Clerck. Mr. E. Adkin, small 

 and brightly marked specimens of Herhula cespitalis, Schiff., from the Land's End, 

 on behalf of Mrs. Hutchinson, also larvse of Larentia ccBsiata, Lang., from the 

 Grampian Hills, feeding on heather, and cases and imagines of Psyche villosella, Och. 

 Mr. E. Adkin further showed nests of a wasp attached to heather, from Bourne- 

 mouth, and from which the imago had just emerged ; Mr. Billups said the species 

 was Eumenes coarctata, one of the solitary wasps, and the only representative of 

 the genus in Britain ; he then described the habits of the insect, and exhibited 

 various parasites belonging to the Families Ichneumonidce, ChrysididcB, Syrphidce, 

 and Staphylinida, insects which the Vespidce were particularly subject to Be 

 attacked by. Mr. Billups also showed nests of solitary wasps from Borneo, with 

 their makers, also a very fine nest of a social wasp, PelopcBus architectus, St. Farg., 

 with the imago, from Kentucky. Mr. Henderson exhibited some abnormally large 

 specimens of Paniscus cephalotes, Holmgr., bred from the larvse of Dicranura 

 vinida. 



June 26th, 1890.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Hawes exhibited larvse of Thecla rw^ijL., feeding upon broom, upon which 

 Mr. Hawes stated he saw the ova deposited. Mr. E. Adkin, a bred series of Epione 

 advenaria, Hb., &e. Mr. Turner, the gracilis form of Tceniocampa stabilis, Yiew. 

 Mr. Fenn, a long series of Sesia sphegiformis, Hb., from Sussex, about half of them 

 having been taken by " assembling," the remainder being bred by him. Mr. Mans- 

 bridge, a fine variety of Ccenonympha Pamphilus, L. Mr. South, a collection of 

 Micro- Lepidoptera, collected by him in Normandy, and commented on the fact that 

 with one or two exceptions the species were the same as occui'red in this country. 

 Mr. C. Fenn, two dark specimens of Eupithecia rectangulata, L., also Tortrices taken 

 and bred by him this year from the south of London, including a fine series of 

 Tortrix Branderiana, St. Mr. Cockerell, a larva of Tceniocampa incerta, Hufn., 

 found feeding on the leaves of mulberry. Mr. Billups, on behalf of Mr. South, 40 

 species of Coleoptera, one of Ichneumonidce, one of Diptera, and one of Homoptera, 

 from Normandy, nearly the whole of which were represented in this country. Mr. 

 Billups' other exhibits were 29 species of Diptera, 23 of Hymenoptera, 5 of Cole- 

 optera, 2 of Hemiptera, and 1 each of Homoptera and Neuroptera, in all 104 insects, 

 representing 10 families, taken at the Society's Excursion to Mickleham on the 2l8t 

 June. Mr. Mansbridge, Leptida hrevipennis. Mils., and in reply to Mr. Billups, 

 said he believed there were some wicker baskets stored where they were captured. 

 Mr. Billups said that the specimens had probably been brought here in these ; some 

 years ago a number of Dutch baskets were stored in the Borough Market, and 

 from these a quantity of the species now exhibited were bred. 



July lOth, 1890.— W. H. Tugwell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Eev. C. Thornwill, Eev. E. C. Dobree-Fox, and Mr. B. A. Bristowe, were 

 elected Members. 



