i893-] THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 147 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



June 7, 1893. — H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. Mr. 

 George Willis Kirkaldy, of St. Abbs, Worple Road, Wimbledon, S.W., was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. Mr. W. C. Boyd exhibited varieties of Fidonia piniaria and 

 Thecla rubi, taken at Bournemouth on May 20th, 1893. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse 

 exhibited certain large galls on oak-leaves from Mexico, one of which was apparently 

 produced by a species of Cynipida. Mr. A. Cowper-Field exhibited varieties of 

 Smerintlius tilia, bred between 1890 and 1893, under various conditions of temperature, 

 those which had been exposed to a lower temperature being much darker than those 

 which had been exposed to a higher. Mr. Merrifield made some observations on 

 the subject, and remarked that, as far as his experience went, no hard and fast rule 

 could be laid down with regard to the production of the lighter or darker colourings, 

 as a high temperature sometimes produced dark forms. Mr. W. M. Christy ex- 

 hibited a series Zygcena trifolii, including very many yellow forms, all, with one 

 exception, taken at one spot during the latter half of May, 1893, and belonging to 

 one colony. Some of the specimens were more or less incomplete, both in structure 

 and colour, and Mr. Barrett stated as his opinion that this was due to their having 

 been forced by the unusually fine weather. Lord Walsingham, Mr. Merrifield, and 

 others took part in the discussion which followed. Canon Fowler exhibited cocoons 

 and specimens of Coniatus suavis var. chrysochlora, Luc, taken by Lord Walsingham 

 in great abundance on the flower-shoots of tamarisk in the West of Italy. Mr. 

 Chitty exhibited black varieties of the following Coleoptera from the slopes of Ben 

 Cruachan, N.B. : — Carabtcs violaceus and arvensis, Pterostichus versicolor, Phyllopertha 

 horticola, and Telephones figuratus, and stated that the latter seemed a permanent race, 

 as it occurred both in 1892 and 1893. The President remarked on the great 

 abundance of Coleophora laricella in Gloucestershire, and stated that they were 

 committing great ravages among young larches. Lord Walsingham stated that he 

 had seen young larches at Carlsbad completely bleached by this moth. It was 

 suggested by several Fellows of the Society that care should be taken to observe 

 the occurrence of second broods of insects during the year. Mons. Wailly exhibited 

 a collection of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and . Orthoptera from New Zealand. A 

 discussion followed, in which Lord Walsingham, Dr. Sharp, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. 

 Durrant and others took part. Mons. Wailly further exhibited cocoons of various 

 silk-producing Lepidoptera, and stated that the larva of Attacus pernyi, whose food- 

 plant is oak, had been reared in Trinidad on Terminalia latifolia. — W. W. Fowler, 

 Hon. Secretary. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Tuesday, 6th June, 1893. — Exhibits. Mr. Clark, a bred specimen of Cevura bicuspis 

 and cocoon of same, a male Pier is brassiccs, with a black central spot on the forewings, 

 some fine confluent forms of Syrichthus alveolus from Abbots Wood, and a bred scries 

 of Eupacilia ambiguana from the New Forest. Mr. Battley, living larva of Anthocharis 

 cardamincs. He remarked that these larvae were very easy to rear, and fed up very 

 rapidly, arriving at their full size in about four weeks. Mr. Tremayne, living larvae 

 of Amphidasys prodromaria and others from the New Forest. Mr. Hollis, Adda viridella, 

 Neiuophora s-wammerdammclla, and a bred series of Ephyra punclaria. Mr. Gregor, 

 Abraxas ulmata. Ligdia adust at a, Asthena blomerana, &c. Mr. Bacot, a bred series of 

 Demas coryli, including one specimen without the dark central band ; also young 



