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Whatever deficiency the females have in this respect is more than made up 

 by the ample wings of the males. For example, C. brumata has so small a 

 body that its large wings seem out of all proportion, and more than is needed 

 for flight, but when it is known that it carries its partner from tree to tree 

 when disturbed, and perhaps without being disturbed, the advantage of the 

 large wings becomes apparent, and he is able to carry her with a quick and 

 steady flight. I have seen all four species in copula, and the male is very 

 much more wary and shy then, than when alone. As you approach to box 

 or net them they fly off before you are within ten yards of them, and fly up 

 and up till quite out of reach. At other times you can box a single male off 

 a tree trunk as easily as you may box a noctua off sugar. I believe the 

 reason the females have no wings is because they occur at a season of the 

 year when high winds prevail, and all sorts of bad weather, and if they flew 

 much they might be blown from shelter and destroyed. As to malformation, 

 I have had apterous males, as well as females, of many different species, both 

 from larvse reared in confinement, and from pupa collected out of doors. 

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REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



September 1, 1886. — Robert M'Lachlan, Esq., E.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Eellows : — The Rev. Professor 

 Dickson, D.D., of Glasgow University; Mr. P. Cowell, of Liverpool; Mr. 

 A.. O. Walker, of Colwyn Bay, North Wales ; and Mr. Lyddon Surrage, of 

 Hertford College, Oxford. 



The President remarked vpith regard to the gnats from the Kent Water- 

 works, exhibited at the last meeting, that Professor West wood had since in- 

 formed Mr. Douglas that they were only Culex pipiens. 



Mr. Slater exhibited certain parasites found on the body of a larva of 

 Smerinthus Mlia, which Mr. Waterhouse believed to be Uropoda vegetans, a 

 species of Acari. % 



Mr. W. Warren exhibited the following Lepidoptera, viz. : — Eupithecia 

 fraxinata> caught in Regent's Park ; E. innotata (Hub.), bred from Artemesia 

 maritima ; a variety of Eupithecia satyraia ; a GelecMa, caught in Wick en 

 Fen twenty years ago by Mr. Bond, and believed to be a new species ; G. 

 famatella (Dgl.) or celerella (Stn.) from Hay ling Island ; G. vilella (Zell.), 

 bred from larvae collected on the Essex coast on mallow ; Llthocolletis scabi* 



