November 9 th, 1896.'] Proceedings. 



xxi. 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section.] 



Ordinary Meeting, November gth, 1896. 



Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., President of the Section, 



in the Chair. 



A paper by Mr. Peter Cameron on " Hymenoptera 

 Orientalia, or Contributions to a knowledge of the 

 Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region," 



Part V., was read, and is published in full in the Society's 

 Memoirs. 



Mr. J. C. Melvill exhibited a (European) specimen of 

 Calophasia platyptera Esper, one individual of which species 

 has been captured for the first time in this country by Mr. 

 John T. Carrington, and the full record of this discovery 

 has been given by him in the November number of Science 

 Gossip for this current year (p. 141). It was found last 

 summer flying out of a rough hedge surrounding a brickfield 

 and other waste ground, on the south side of the old Shore- 

 ham Road, three miles from Brighton, and not far from 

 Portslade Station, Sussex. 



It is allied to the Shark Moths, Cucullia, of which Great 

 Britain possesses several species, and may be known from 

 any of that genus by its smaller size, the wings expanding 

 only 1 in. to ijin.,the ashy grey forewings having a brownish 

 patch running across the inner margin to the tip, and there 

 being a few black transverse streaks in the marginal area. 

 No stigmata, as usual in the Noctuina, and which are present 

 in C. lunula, are perceptible ; the hindwings are greyish 

 brown, paler towards the base of the wings. 



Staudinger, in his Catalogue des Lepidopteves d' Europe, p. 

 121, gives eight species of Calophasia ; the majority of them 

 are very local and barely known species from Beyrout, 

 Armenia, Bithynia, and Castille, leaving, besides the subject 

 of the present notice, only C. casta Bork. ( = opalina Esper), a 



