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gave notes on the nomenclature of the species. Several forms and varieties were 

 exhibited by the members, and a discussion ensued — ^Messrs. South, Fenn, Tugvvell, 

 Adkin, and others, taking part. Mr. Cockerell showed, and read a note on, Helix 

 tridentata, Say., type from Fayette Co., Indiana, *and var. now fiisctda, D. B. Cockerell 

 (M.S.,) Toronta, Canada, collected by Mr. D. B. Cockerell. 



i2th March, i8gi. — The President in the chair. Air. F. E. Elton, of Wokinham, 

 was elected a member. 



The Secretary read the report of a Committee which had been appointed to 

 enquire into the numerical and financial position of the Society, from which i 

 appeared that since the year 1885 the number of members has increased yearly and 

 as a consequence the finances of the Society. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Padisca solandriana, bred from larv^ feeding in shoots of 

 Birch from Aberdeen, and on behalf of Mr. Smith sundry Tortrices and Crambites 

 from Paisley, including a white and dark blotched variety of P. solandriana, and an 

 unusually white form of Cranihus pratellus. Mr. R. South Vanessa urtic.?, L., to show 

 the geographical distribution and local variation. 3,Ir. Adye, varieties of Abraxas 

 grossidariata, L. IMr. Robinson, specimens of a Pyg.?ra which he stated had been 

 supposed to be P. curtula, they were bought cheap in 1S76. Air. Tugwell stated it 

 was diffiurt to say what the species was if it was not curtula, he had seen the form 

 before. Mr. Tutt remarked that he had seen the form in the Doubleday collection. 

 Mr. Carrington exhibited, and made remarks upon some plants collected by him at 

 Toulon. Mr. Cockerell read some notes on the variation of Pliasianella pullus, L., and 

 Littorina rudis. Mat., in South Wales, and on the minute shells obtained from the 

 drift, collected by Mr. C. G. Barrett, in Pembrokeshire. 



Mr. Billings read a paper on the Hymenopterous and Dipterous parasites, bred by 

 members of the Society during the year 1889-go ; the paper was illustrated by the 

 exhibition of the various species mentioned in the paper, and in many cases by the 

 host from which the parasites had been bred. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



March ^th, 1891. — Mr. Alilton exhibited Hyhernia nipicapraria, leucophearia and 

 E. aiitumnaria, and in Coleoptera, Dytisciis punctatatus, D. circumjlexus, Pocadius fevrng- 

 ineiis, Salpinus castaneus, Hypoyhaus hicolor, and Mycetophagus ^-pustutahis. Mr. Heasler, 

 Tetratoma fungorum, and a specimen of Domis parallelopipedus taken on the 21st Feb- 

 ruary, the usual time of appearance being June. Mr. Clark exhibited yai-ious 

 British Bees and Wasps, aud Mr. Battley to illustrate his paper, a glass case con- 

 taining living bees, with their queen. 



Mr. Battley read a paper on "The Honey Bee and modern Bee keeping." He 

 remarked on the antiquity of Bee keeping, and the wasteful system practised of old. 

 He described the various races of bees domesticated in Britain — the black bee (A pis 

 mellifica) being taken as the type, and the Ligurian, Syrian, and Carniolian bees 



