274 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



i 



Entomological Society of London. 



June 6th, 1894. — Henry John Elwes, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Dr. K. Jordan, of " The Museum," Tring, and the Hon. Nathaniel C. 

 Rothschild, of Tring Park, Tring, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited a series of eleven male specimens of 

 Bhina barbirost?is from British Honduras, of which the largest and smallest 

 examples measure respectively 60 and 17 mm. The difference in bulk, 

 supposing the proportions to be identical, is as 43 to 1. He remarked 

 that this variation of the size is especially common in the Brenthidcs, 

 Cossonidce, and other wood-boring Coleoptera. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens of Cardiophorus equiseti taken 

 near Braunton, on the north coast of Devon, in May, 1891. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited for Mr. J. W. Douglas male specimens of a 

 Coccid (Lecanium prunastri), bred from scales attached to shoots of blackthorn 

 (Primus spinosa) received from Herr Karel Sulc, of Prague, and stated that 

 the species was common on blackthorn in France and Germany, and should 

 be found in Britain. 



Lord Walsiugham exhibited a series of Cacoecia podana, Scop., reared 

 from larvae feeding on Lapageria and palms in Messrs. Veitch's conser- 

 vatories, Chelsea, including some melanic varieties. The Honble. Walter 

 Rothschild stated that he had taken the species on lime. 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited a series of Selenia lunaria, bred from one batch 

 of eggs, which included both the spring and summer forms; and also 

 two unforced specimens, which emerged in November. He observed that 

 the variation between the two emergences, viz., spring and summer, is 

 considerable, and also the range of variation inter se, especially in the 

 spring form ; but it is remarkable that the summer form has one or two 

 representatives among those of the spring emergence. The parent female 

 was taken at Bexley in May, 1893. 



Mr. F. Lovell Keays exhibited a variety of L.alexis (female), having the 

 marginal ocelli on the hind wings without the usual orange-coloured lunules. 

 The specimen was captured at Caterham on May 22nd, 1894, and was the 

 first example of the species observed by the captor this season. 



Mr. J. H. Durrant exhibited a series of Steganoptycha pygmaana, Hb., 

 taken at Merton, Norfolk, between the 25 th March and the middle of April 

 last. 



Mr. H. Goss read an extract from a report from Mr. J. R. Preece, 

 H.M. Consul at Ispahan, to the Foreign Office, on the subject of damage 

 caused to the wheat crop in the district of Rafsinjan by an insect which 

 was called " Sen " by the natives, and which he described as " like a flying 

 bug, reddish olive in colour, with heavy broad shoulders." Dr. Sharp said 

 that in the absence of a specimen it was impossible to express an opinion as 

 to the species. 



