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Christy exhibited a series of Zygcena trifoUi, including very many yellow 

 forms, all, with one exception, taiien at one spot during the latter half of 

 May, 181)3, and belonging to one colony. Some of the specimens were more 

 or less incomplete, both in structure and colour. Lord Walsingham, 

 Mr. Merriheld, and others took part in the discussion which followed. 

 Canon Fowler exhibited cocoons and specimens of Goniatus suavis var. 

 chrysochlora, Luc, taken by Lord Walsingham in great abundance on 

 the flower-shoots of tamarisk in the West of Italy. Mr. C bitty exhibited 

 black varieties of the following Coleoptera from the slopes of Ben 

 Cruachan, N.B.: — Carabus violaceus and arvensis, Pterostlchus versicolor, 

 Phyllopertlia horticola and Telephorus figuratiis, and stated that the latter 

 seemed a permanent race, as it occurred both in 1892 and 1893. The 

 President remarked on the great abundance of Coleophora laricella in 

 Gloucestershire, and stated that they were committing great ravages among 

 young larches. Lord Walsingham stated that he had seen young larches 

 at Carlsbad completely bleached by this moth. It was suggested by several 

 Fellows of the Society that care should be taken to observe the occurrence 

 of second broods of insects during the year. Mens. Wailly exhibited a 

 collection of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Orthoptera from New Zealand. 

 A discussion followed, in which Lord Walsingham, Dr. Sharp, Mr. 

 McLachlan, Mr. Durrant and others took part. Mens. Wailly further 

 exhibited cocoons of various silk-producing Lepidoptera, and stated that 

 the larva of Attacus permji, whose food-plant is oak, had been reared in 

 Trinidad on TerminaLia latifolia. — W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretary. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Thursday, May 25th, 1893. — The President in the chair. Mr. Adkin ex- 

 hibited a bred series of Cidaria suffuinata, Hb., from Forres, with bred 

 series from Dover and Box Hill for comparison ; also a bred series of 

 Lobophora carpinata, Bork. (lobulata, Hb.) from Ptannoch, including one 

 extreme banded form, with southern series for comparison. Mr. Gerrard, 

 a specimen of Syrichthus malvts, L. {alveolus, Hb.), var. fritillum, W. V., 

 from Epping. Mr. C. G. Barrett, a box containing more than twenty 

 species of the Psychidse, from the Continent of Europe, and especially 

 desired to gain further information with regard to these little-known and 

 obscure insects. He stated that the larvae lived in cases, after the manner 

 of the Coleophora, on fir, furze, heath, grass, and the lichen of trees, rocks, 

 and bushes ; and that many entomologists considered them to be Bombyces, 

 not Tineina. Mr. Weir remarked that all the species seemed excessively 

 local, and gave his experience with P. villosella, Och., stating that the 

 female did not leave the case, that the eggs were laid and hatched within 

 this shelter, and that most likely the first meal of the young larvae was the 

 body of their mother. Mr. West, of Streatham, on behalf of Mr. Trenerry, 

 male and female of Pieris daplidice, L., captured by a boy at Plymouth; 

 also a specimen of Smerinthus tilicB, L., in which the rosy tint was very 

 strongly developed, making a very beautiful variety. Mr. Turner, a long 

 series of Hybernia leucopihcearia, Schiff., fiom varieties with but few 

 markings on a light ground, to forms which were very dark with the trans- 

 verse lines obliterated, selected from various localities near south Loudon ; 

 a specimen of Panolis pinijperda, Panz., from Westerham, in which green 

 was the prevailing colour ; also hybernated specimens of Pterophorus 

 tnonodactylus, L., taken on Feb. 18th in this year. Mr. Warne, a nodule 

 of kauri gum from New Zealand, enclosing a large Longicorn beetle. Mr. 



