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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — December 7, 1892. — Mr. 

 Frederick Ducane Godrnan, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. The 

 President announced the death, on the 2nd December, of Mr. Henry T. 

 Stainton, F.R.S., an ex-President of the Society. A vote of condolence 

 with Mrs. Stainton was passed by the Meeting. Mr. Frank Bouskell, of 

 11, Lansdovvne Road, Stoneygate, Leicester; Mr. George C. Dennis, of 

 Tower Street, York ; Mr. Charles B. Headley, of Stoneygate Road, 

 Leicester : Mr. William Mansbridge, of Luther Place, Horsforth, near 

 Leeds ; and the Rev. George W. Taylor, of St. Birnabas, Victoria, British 

 Columbia, were elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited 

 a species of Acraea from Sierra Leone, which Mr. Roland Trimen, who had 

 examined the specimen, considered to be a remarkable variety of Telchinia 

 encedon, Linn. It was a very close mimic of Limnas alcippus, the usual 

 West African form of Limnas chrysippus. The upper wings of the 

 specimen were rufous and the lower white, as in the model, and the resem- 

 blance in other respects was heightened by the almost total suppression of 

 the black spots in the disc of the upper wings, characteristic of the usual 

 markings of T. encedon. Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited a remarkable variety 

 of LyccBna adonis, caught in Kent this year, with only one large spot on the 

 under side of each upper wing, and the spots on the lower wings entirely 

 replaced by suffused white patches. He also exhibited two specimens of 

 Noctua xanthographa of a remarkably pale brownish grey colour, ap- 

 proaching a dirty white, obtained in Essex in 1891 ; and a variety of 

 Acronycta rumicis, also taken in Essex, with a beautiful dark hind margin 

 to the fore wings. Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a living specimen of a species 

 of Conocephalus, a genus of Locustidse, several species of which, Mr. C. O. 

 Waterhouse and Mr. McLachlan stated, had been found alive in hothouses 

 in this country. Dr. T, A. Chapman exhibited immature specimens of 

 Taniocampa gracilis, T. gothica, T. populeti, T. munda, T. instabilis, and 

 T. leucographa, which had been taken out of their cocoons in the autumn, 

 with the object of showing the then state of development of the imagos. 

 Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a living specimen of the larva of Cartero- 

 cephalus palamon {Hesperia paniscus), hybernating on a species of grass 

 which he believed to be Bromus asper. The Rev. Canon Fowler and Mr. 

 H. Goss expressed their interest at seeing the larva of this local species, 

 the imagos of which they had respectively collected in certain woods in 

 Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. Mr. Goss stated that the food-plants 

 of the species were supposed to be Pla^itago major and Cynosurus cristatus, 

 but that the larva might possibly feed on Bromus asper. Mr. C. G. Barrett 

 exhibited a long series of remarkable melanic and other varieties of Boarmia 

 repandata, bred by Mr. A. E. Hall from larvae collected near Sheffield. 

 Mr. W. Farren exhibited, and commented on, four varieties of Papilio 

 machaon from Wicken Fen ; also a series of two or three species of 

 Nepticulce pinned on pith with the " minutien Nadeln," for the purpose of 

 showing these pins. Canon Fowler exhibited specimens of Xyleborus 

 perj'orans, Woll., which had been devastating the sugar-canes in the West 

 Indies. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that the larvae had done great 

 damage to beer-casks in India. Mr. E. B. Poulton showed, by means of 

 the oxy-hydrogen lantern, a number of slides of various larvae and pupae. 



