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a small additional spot, and other Lepidoptera. 

 August 22nd, T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. Owing to the holidays and a heavy 

 thunder-storm, the meeting was unusually small. 

 Mr. South exhibited smoky varieties of Rumia 

 luteolata taken this year near Macclesfield, also 

 series or specimens of Hypermecia cruciana, Tortrix 

 cinnamoneana, Eapithecia venosata, and E. pidchellata 

 from the same locality. Mr. Hall stated that he 

 possessed similar varieties of R. luteolata from 

 Scotland. Mr. Moore, series of the following 

 Arachnidse, from St. Augustine's, Florida, viz. : 

 Nephila clavipes, Atreus americanus, and Gasteracantha 

 cancri/ormis. Mr. West, of Greenwich, specimens 

 of Chrysomela gattingensis, taken this year at 

 Bookham and Box Hill, and remarked that he had 

 never taken the species before. Mr. Turner, 

 specimens of Scodiona belgiaria, from Oxshott and 

 Shirley, and a series of Hadenapisi, bred from larva; 

 obtained at Barnes and showing considerable 

 variation from almost uniform reddish-brown to 

 forms having a deal of greyish-white marking. 

 Several members reported having seen or captured 

 Colias edusa, and one var. helice had been taken in 

 the Isle of Wight. — Hy. J. Turner {Hon. Report Sec.) 

 Accrington Naturalists' Society. — The 

 fortieth annual meeting of this society was held on 

 July 6th, in its rooms at Oak Hill Park. The fol- 

 lowing officers were elected : President, Mr. Henry 

 Miller. Vice-Presidents : Messrs. John Rhodes, 

 F.E.S., R. Wigglesworth, J. Holman, and R. 

 Beagham. Committee : Messrs. Edward Haworth, 

 J. Riley, M. P. Richardson, R. S. Lincoln, A. E. 

 Ball, and F. Sutcliffe. Treasurer, Mr. William 

 Lawson ; Analysts, Messrs. Isaac Stephenson and 

 J. A. Pickup; Librarian, Mr. P. Whalley ; 

 Assistant, Mr. Riley ; Secretary, Mr. Joseph 

 Knowles ; and Assistant Secretary, Mr. Walsh. 

 There was afterwards exhibited by Mr. Isaac 

 Stephenson an example of the hepatic plant or 

 liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha), bearing female 

 reproductive branches or archegoniophores. Mr. 

 P. Worden exhibited a number of flowering plants. 



City of London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society. — At the usual meeting held on 

 July 16th, the exhibits included : Mr. Battley, a 

 female specimen of Saturnia pyri, from North Italy. 

 Young larvse bred from eggs laid by this specimen 

 were at first black with red warts and short 

 bristles, but after the second moult, they became 

 pale-green with yellow warts and long spatulate 

 hairs. Mr. J. A. Clark, showed a pair of pale- 

 spotted Argynnis paphia, from the New Forest. 

 Mr. Bacot, a series of Boarmia repandata, bred from 

 a dark female from South Wales ; all the specimens 

 except one, showed a strong tendency to melanism. 

 Dr. Buckell, a larva of Biston hirtaria, v,hich had 

 been " stung ' ' by an ichneumon while hanging by a 

 thread. The fly, which was also exhibited, 

 managed, after a certain amount of objection on 

 the part of the larva, to deposit two eggs on the 

 skin of the larva, near the head. — Tuesday, August 

 6th, the exhibits were by : Mr. Battley, series of 

 Miana strigilis and M. fasciuncula, from Clapton and 

 neighbourhood, showing gradations in the former, 

 from the ordinary black and white marbled form to 

 var. tzthiops, and both the red and the yellow form 

 of the latter. Mr. S. J. Bell, two cocoons of 

 Saturnia paronia, in which the customary means of 

 exit was wanting ; they were almost spherical in 

 shape, and not so large as usual. Mr. Bate, 

 Orthosia suspecta, from Dulwich Woods. — C. 

 Nicholson, A. W. Battley {Hon. Sees.) 



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