0354 Northern Entomological Society. 



Northern Entomological Society. 



December 18, 1858. — B. Cooke, Esq., in the chair. 



This being the Anniversary Meeting, the Secretary read a report of progress during 

 the year, which was most satisfactory. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited a box full of beautifully-set Hemiptera, principally taken 

 last season. 



Mr. Langcake exhibited a box of recent captures for identification, containing 

 many interesting species; amongst them was one Depressaria unknown to the mem- 

 bers present, and an extraordinary variety of Phibalapteryx gemmaria. 



Mr. Marrot exhibited the box of the evening, an undoubted case of partheno- 

 genesis in Lasiocampa Quercus, and said he took only one larva during the season ; it 

 was left in the box it was collected in, spun up at once, came out, and was pinned alive 

 into a pocket box, which box was never opened afterwards until the moth had laid its 

 eggs, died, the eggs hatched, and the young larvae perished for want of food ! There 

 were about twenty-eight egg-shells and twenty-five dead larva; in the box. 



Mr. Gregson exhibited a box recently received from Mr. Dale: in it were many 

 interesting species, especially Phloxopteryx upupana and some Peroneas, of which here- 

 after. He then exhibited a box from Mr. Allis ; in it were Gelechia nigra, G. Hubneri, 

 Coleophora troglodytella, Anesychnia langrella, &c, and an apple- feeding Ypono- 

 meuta ; it is expected this will one day be proved a good species. He then exhibited 

 a very long series of Tephrosia crepuscularia, from Kent, London district, Black 

 Park, Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Cumberland and Scotland ; 

 the latter supplied by Mr. Chapman, of Glasgow ; one specimen from Delamere 

 Forest, as near white as possible, and another from the same place, very nearly black, 

 with every gradation of colour between them ; the southern specimens, perhaps, 

 a little yellower in the ground-colour than the generality of others, yet not 

 to be separated from some of the northern specimens, proving to the satisfaction of the 

 Meeting that Tephrosia crepuscularia and T. laricaria are one and the same species, the 

 first name standing. He then exhibited some beautiful specimens of Botys decrepit- 

 alis, kindly sent by Mr. Chapman, and a number of Cheimatobia autumnaria ? taken 

 by Mr. Mawson, of Coekermouth, at the foot of Basenthwaite Water, during the last 

 week in October: this year they are like Oporabia filigrammaria, but as that species 

 would pass away in September, at the very latest, they confirm what has been advanced 

 at these Meetings before, namely, that there is a good species allied to O. filigrammaria. 

 A discussion ensued which led to some amusing remarks, it being conceded that 

 no man could confound the specimen before the Meeting with O. dilutaria. He then 

 exhibited a Geometra variety, which he thought Melanippe propugnaria, from 

 Cumberland, and the new Tinea, lately bred, which was brought before the last 

 Meeting, as likely to become British, having been imported in skins from Honduras, 

 observing that it had reproduced itself in a cold room. 



Mr. Brockholes observed he had not yet bred it, but expected to do so shortly, 

 when it was asked by a Member, Would the ladies of England thank a bachelor for 



