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galii, had been occurring very freely at Deal, and some remarks were made 

 by other members with reference thereto. An interesting, discussion took 

 place on the probable influence of humidity in causing variation among lepi- 

 doptera. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



[The Annual Exhibition of this flourishing Society will be held on 17th 

 and 18th October, as per announcement on cover. — Ed.] 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Entomological Conversazione in Liverpool.-— The second annual 

 conversazione of this Society took place in the Royal Institute, Colquitt Street, 

 on September 24th. Despite somewhat unfavourable atmospheric conditions, 

 there was a numerous attendance of members and friends, whose manifesta- 

 tions of enthusiasm in the society's proceedings augured well for the future 

 of the Society. Two commodious rooms of the institution upstairs were 

 replete with a very large and beautiful array of entomological specimens and 

 water-colour drawings illustrative of the same. The exhibits in the first-named 

 class were those of Mr. S. J. Capper, the genial president, and may be said 

 to be the result of his life-work in entomological research. The collection 

 consists of some fifty to sixty drawers or cases of lepidoptera. The other 

 collection represents the artistic industry of Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Huddeis- 

 field, who has faithfully portrayed British and foreign butterflies, &c, in 

 upwards of 1,000 sketches. The respective collections of both Mr. Capper 

 and Mr. Mosley were very much admired. These collections were also en- 

 riched by the exhibits of other contributors, which included preserved larva, 

 and preserving apparatus by Mr. Pierce, the vice-president ; a collection of 

 British coleoptera by Mr. R. Wilding, the hon. secretary ; a specimen of 

 Morpho ganymede, by Mr. C. H. Walker ; apparatus used in collecting and 

 preserving insects by Mr. Cooke ; a new design in breeding cages by Mr. 

 Young, of Rotherham ; and microscopes by Messrs. Isaac Thompson, J. Wall, 

 Pierce, Harker, and Webb. 



The President, in his opening remarks, stated that the society had been in 

 existence twelve years. Commencing with only about a dozen members, it 

 now numbered fifty and sixty. One of the objects of the present entertainment 

 was to attract new members, and he hoped that during the evening many 

 now present would give their names to the Secretary (Mr. Wilding), to be 

 proposed as members. After briefly explaining the privileges attached to 

 membership, he said he should like to make a few remarks respecting the 

 description of his own exhibit on the programme distributed, which pro- 

 nounced it " one of the finest collections of British lepidoptera in the country." 

 Whilst this might be truly said of it, he should be sorry for anyone to go 



