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the members, and he expressed a wish that all members would assist him by adding 

 to the list all parasites that they might breed during the coming season. 



January 10th, 1889. — President in the chair. Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Noctua 

 glareosa, from Kent, Barnsley, York, Perth, Forres, and Shetland. The Shetland 

 specimens, and one of those from Perth approaching a melanic form, the others 

 being of the pale grey or slightly of the rosy type. Mr. J. A. Clarke, dark varieties 

 of Cidaria suffumata, black and suffused form of Melanthia bicolorata, and a fine variety 

 of Oporabia dilutata. Mr. Tugwell, a series of Boletobia fuliginaria, with an empty 

 pupa case and sketches of the larvas at rest and feeding, and contributed notes, in 

 which he stated that in his opinion, the insect was a true Geometer rather than a 

 Noctua. Mr. White, coloured drawing of a variety of Catocala nupta, having the 

 inferior wings blue, taken by Dr. Laver, at Colchester. Mr. E. Joy, bred specimens 

 of Pygara reclusa (pigva Hufn.), from Wicken Fen. Mr. Chittenden, very black 

 forms of Audalia inorata, taken at Ashford, Kent. Mr. Jenner Weir, exhibited with 

 other species a female specimen of A nosia plexippus, which he had received from 

 Mr. Cockerell, Custer Co., Colerado, and stated that although in this specimen the 

 inner edge of the wing was quite as black as those received by him from Canada 

 and Hudson's Bay.; it yet differed in the colour of the spots in the fore-wings being 

 all white, whereas, in the northern specimens the four large central spots were of a 

 fulvous brown, little inferior in richness to that of the disc of the wing. At the same 

 time he shewed a water-colour which had been made from the specimen taken at Lind- 

 field, 1876, from which it appeared that the example then captured resembled the more 

 northern form of the species. Male and female specimens of Pirns olemcea were 

 also exhibited by Mr. Weir, who said he had also contended this species was not 

 identical with P. napi ; and he received a communication from Mr. Scudder, who 

 wrote that he had now been able to make the comparison wished, and could report 

 the two species were distinguishable from each other in the caterpillar and chrysalis 

 stages, as surely and readily as P. napi and P. vapce could be distinguished in the 

 same stages. Mr. T. R. Billups, exhibited types of eighty species of parasitic 

 Hymenoptera with cocoons, from which many had emerged, aud in some cases the 

 larvae from which they were reared. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Secretary. 



A Contribution towards the Beetle-Fauna of 

 Llangollen. 



By Dr. JOHN W. ELLIS, F.E.S. 



During a three days' holiday spent with Mr. Wilding last Whit- 

 suntide (May 19th to 2 1 st) in this delightful part of North Wales, I 

 met with so many species of coleopterous insects not hitherto recorded 

 from that district, that I have appended my list of captures on that 

 occasion, as recorded in my diary, in the hope that it may be of service 



