22-1 ' August. 



Mr. Welliiiaii exhibited a valuable series of 100 examples of Eupithecia rectan- 

 gulata, L., taken at Streatham Hill, Dianthaecia cncuhali, Fues., Liverpool, D. carpo- 

 phaga, Bork., var. capsophila, Dup., from Isle of Man and South Scotland, D. nana, 

 Kott., from Surrey and Ireland. Mr. Jager, altio D. carpophaga from South Wales,' 

 and the variety capsophUa from the Isle of Man, and D. ccBsia, Bork., from the 

 same locality. Mr. R. Adkin, Coremia designata, Huf., from Surrey, varying in 

 width and density of coloration of central band, also Eupithecia nanata, Hb., from 

 Hants and Surrey, and called attention to the extreme variability of the species. 

 Some observations were made on the latter exhibit of Mr. Adkin, in the course of 

 which Mr. C. Gr. Barrett and Mr. Tutt expressed opinions that Curzoni was only 

 an extreme form of E. safyrata. Mr. Grerrard showed Emgdia crihriim, L., and 

 case of Pxyche villosella, Och., from the New Forest. Mr. Mansbi'idge, Xylophasia 

 rurea, Fb., var. comhusta, Dup. Mr. Dennis, a pale specimen of Argynnis Euphro- 

 syne, L., from Dorking. Mr. Croker, Nola cucullatella, L., from Kent. Mr. E. 

 Joy, Meliana Jlammea, Curt., and Naxcia cilialis, Hb., from Wicken Fen. Mr. 

 Howard Vaughan, 'Melitaa Aurinia, Kott., CcBnonympha Typhon, Rott., Nemeophila 

 russula, L., Crambus sylveUus, Hb., Scoparia amhigualis, Tr., and \&v.atomaHs, from 

 North Knapdale, iS. amhigualis, var. atomalis, Hypsipetes trifasciata, Bork., and 

 Coremia designata, &c., from Kilmartin Parish, Argyleshire, dark forms of Larentia 

 viridaria, Fb., and two S Procris, which differed considerably from P. statices, upon 

 the identity of which the Members did not hazard an opinion. Mr. Vaughan re- 

 marked that they appeared to him to be intermediate between statices and globularicB. 



Adverting to Colonel Blathwayt's communication to the Ent. Mo. Mag. for the 

 month of April last (p. 109), Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited the two forms of Volucella 

 bombylans which mimicked Bombus lapidarius aud B. terrestris respectively, stating 

 that he fully concurred with the Colonel in considering that this remarkable dimor- 

 phic condition of the Volucella assisted it to become parasitic upon two species of 

 Bombus differing both in colour and markings. He also exhibited a specimen of the 

 Volucella which he had recently taken at Bournemouth, in which the mimicry was 

 imperfect, inasmuch, as the arrangement of the colour resembled that of Bombus 

 lapidarius, but instead of the hairs at the end of the abdomen being red, they were 

 of a yellowish colour as in the mimic of B. terrestris. He showed also a specimen 

 of the large worker of Formica rufa, to the antennge of which was attached by the 

 closed jaws the head and part of the thorax of another ant, with which no doubt it 

 had fought and destroyed the abdomen and most of the thorax of its adversary, but 

 could not detach the head, which on death had firmly gripped its conqueror. — H. 

 W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



Entomological Society of London: July 2nd, 1890. — Prof. J. O. West- 

 wood, M.A., F.L.S., Hon. Life-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, of Ashton-on Ribble, Preston, Lancashire, and Mrs. 

 Bazett, of Springfield, Reading, were ek-cted Fellows. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited some rare Micro- Lepidoptera collected by himself 

 at Cannes, including Eudemis helichrysana, Couchyli.i ruhricana, Milliere ; a new 

 Depressari'i from Opoponax chcironium, n hit-li is ;iboul to be de;'iTit)ed by M. A. 



