THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



£19 



Capper must be congratulated on his shrewdness in picking it out among the 

 " odds and ends " of a collector's duplicates. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



October 3rd, 1888,— Dr. D. Shaep, E.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. E. P. Pascoe exhibited a number of new species of Longicornia from 

 Sumatra, Madagascar, and South Africa. 



Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited, for Mr. Harris, a specimen of Charocampa 

 Nerii, recently captured at Burton-on-Trent. 



Mr. S. Stephens exhibited a specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, which he caught 

 in the Isle of Wight in August last. Mr. Stephens asked whether Mr. 

 Poulton or any one else present could inform him why, in British specimens 

 of this species, the border of the wings was almost invariably a pale straw- 

 colour. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. E. D. Godman, Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 Mr. Kirby, and Dr. Mason took part. 



Mr. E. B. Poulton exhibited a living larva of Smerinthus ocellatus in the 

 last stage, fourteen larvse of Boarmia roboraria and some cocoons of Rumia 

 cratcegata. The object of the exhibition was to show the influence of special 

 food-plants and surroundings on the colour of the larvae and cocoons. 



Mr. M. Jacoby exhibited a varied series of Titubcea sangninipennis, Lac, 

 from Central America. He stated that many of the varieties exhibited had 

 been described as distinct species. 



Mr. Billups exhibited specimens of Br aeon brevicomis, Wesm., bred from 

 larvse of Ephestia Kuhniella. He remarked that this rare species had only 

 been recorded as bred on two or three occasions — viz., by the Rev. T. A. 

 Marshall, Mr. W. E. Kirby, Herr Brischke, and Mr. Sidney Webb. 



Mr. W. Warren exhibited ssecimens of Anlitkesia ustulanta and A. full- 

 gana ; also bred series of the following species : — Eupcecilia Legreyana, 

 Stigmonota pallifrontana, Caccecia decretana, and Gelechia peliella. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited specimens of several species of the genus 

 Cryptopkasa belonging to the family Cryptolechida of the Tineina, some of 

 the most remarkable being males and female of Zitua balteata, Walker, bred 

 by Mr. Sidney Olliff from pupse found in January last, at Newcastle, New 

 South Wales, in burrows in branches of a species of Acacia. Lord Walsing- 

 ham also exhibited a male of Zelotyphia stacyi, received from Mr. Olliff. 



Mr. E. D. Godman exhibited a larva of a Cicada, from Mexico, having a 

 fungoid growth on the head. 



Captain Elwes exhibited a large number of Butterflies, representing about 



