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which had been questioned by Mr. W. H. Edwards, was fully established by these 

 specimens. 



Professor Poulton gave an account of the changes he had recently made at 

 Oxford in the arrangement of the Hope Collections in the Department of Zoology, 

 and as to the rooms now available for students working at these collections. 



Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker communicated a paper, entitled "Descriptions of the 

 Pyralidae, Crambidse, and Phycidae, collected by Mr. T. Vernon Woilaston in 

 Madeira." — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The opening meeting of the winter session was held on October 8th, 1894. 

 Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S,, F.E.S., in the chair. 



Mr. C. S. Gregson stated that Orgyia fasceUna, which he supposed had been 

 exterminated from the sandhills, was in profusion at Formby in the larval state. 



Mr. Percy Bright, F.E.S., of Bournemouth, made some interesting remarks on a 

 case of Lepidoptera, which he had collected from the North of Scotland and brought 

 with him for exhibition, including a series of a smoke form of Spilosoma menthastri from 

 the North of Scotland, fine series of Zygazna exulans and Crambus furcatellns taken 

 by himself this year at Braemar, Sesia scoliaforis from Rannoch, Crambus myelins, 

 dark forms of Lepans monaoia, from the New Forest, and Tortrix piceana, from the 

 same locality, a dark strongly marked specimen of Noam glareosa, from Montrose, 

 and a chalky variety of Syrichthus alveolus from the New Forest. 



Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. read a short note respecting the genitalia of two specimens of 

 Bombyx quercus. During the evening the President exhibited a fine series of Calymnia 

 trapezina. 



' Mr. Gregson specimens of Lithosia serica, taken by himself this year, Melanz'ope 

 Jiastata var. hastu^a, Hb., from Sutherlandshire, and varieties of Arctic caja, bred by 

 himself this year. 



Mr. C. E. Stott, on behalf of Mr. H. S. Clark, of the Isle of Man, two specimens of 

 Spliinx pinastri — J. N. Pierce, Hon. Secretary. 



HERTFORD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The annual Fungus Foray of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society was held on 

 Saturday, October 13th, in the neighbourhood of Aldbury. The members, who 

 numbered more than at any previous fungus foray of the Society, assembled at Tring 

 Station at half-past ten, and walked through the village of Aldbury and up the slopes of 

 Moneybury Hill to the Bridgewater Monument, commencing the collection of fungi in 

 the village, on an old tree near the pond ; and being busily at work all the way. Some 

 then walked to Little Gaddesden for lunch, others who had brought it with them partook 

 of it by the monument, and while the most enthusiastic fungologists prosecuted their 

 investigations in the immediate neighbourhood, others went farther afield, walking through 

 the Avenue, about two miles in length, to Ashridge House, and returning by a more 

 circuitous route through the park and over the common, searching for fungi all the way. 

 With the exception of one member, who had to leave by an earlier train than the rest, 

 for Luton, by way of Leighton. all had tea together at the Greyhound, in Aldbury, and 

 then walked to Tring Station for the 4.51 train for Watford, St. Albans, and other 

 places. The meeting was under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson. and the fungi which were 

 collected were determined by Mr. George Massee, of Kew, Mr. Saunders, of Luton, 

 recording the Mycetozoa. About 180 species were found, being the largest number 

 hitherto met with at a fungus foray, and including many new to the county. One species, 

 found by Miss Daisy Weall, of Watford, has only once before been detected in Britain. 



