6190 Northern Entomological Society. 



Part 8 of the current volume of the Society's * Transactions ' was on the table. 



NoRTiiEtiN Entomological Society. 

 June 26, 1858. — B. Cooke, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Exhihilions. 



The Secretary exhibited a box of Lepidoptera kindlj furnished by Mr. Machin, of 

 London ; in the box there were bred specimens of Retinia Turionana and a short 

 series of Eupithecia pusillata, which Mr. Machin has recently discovered near West 

 Wickham, not at the New Forest, as was represented last }ear. 



Mr. Consiantine sent a box of Coleoptera, a present to the Society ; in it were 

 Stomis pumicatus, Bembidium monticolum, &c. — all interesting* species. 



Mr. Pugh exhibited an hermaphrodite Polyommatus Alexis, taken by himself on 

 the coast; the male character being on the left side of the body; the female side is 

 remarkably well-developed, the red spots being very large upon both wings. 



Mr. Hodgkinson exhibited a supposed new Cemiostoma from Genista tinctoria. 



The President exhibited a box in which were representatives of all orders except 

 Orthoptera ; the contents were the result of one day at Rivington, and gave abundant 

 evidence of the richness of the district and the perseverance of the collector: amongst 

 them were some very rare Diptera and a beautiful unrecognised Stegoptera. 



A Member exhibited a box of recent captures, from which the Meeting at once 

 learned what were on the wing at New Brighton. 



Mr. Cooke then exhibited a number of small Cynips and parasites, bred from oak- 

 galls, and beautifully set on cards ; the setting was much admired. 



Mr. Gregson exhibited a box of minute Coleoptera collected near Witherslack, in 

 Westmoreland, and a box of Bembidia, collected near Preston and in North Wales ; 

 also a box of Eupitheciae containing bred specimens of E. assimilata, E. absynthiata 

 DoubL, E. ■ ? n. s., bred from larvae taken in company with E. castigata 



larvae on Lychnis dioica, but differing from that larva in having the marks on the 

 back lozenge-shaped, observing that he has seen this species in cabinets among casti- 

 gata, but could never reconcile it with that soft woolly-looking species ; the specimen 

 before the Meeting being a well-marked insect, the markings fine, but hard ; also 

 specimens of E. satyrata bred from heath, and several other species of Eupithecia, in- 

 cluding a fine series of E. constrictata and E. succenturiata ; also a box in which were 

 specimens of a supposed new Eudurea taken on Engleborough Hill, near Engleton, a 

 few weeks ago, about five hundred yards from the top (it is a dull-coloured fine spe- 

 cies), and a fine series of Peronea potentillana bred from strawberry leaves early in 

 June ; also a plume which he cannot reconcile with any species in our present list: he 

 also exhibited a lot of cases of a Coleophora upon small sallow (Salix fiisca); it seems 

 to prefer the variety which grows among the grass to the variety which forms 

 clumps, though he had found a few larvae on the larger variety ; it belongs to the 

 Anatipenuella group, but wants the neck which is so conspicuous in all the known 

 species in this group, in other words it is a pistol-shaped case without the barrel ; it is 



