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large and extensive fir district. Mr. Adkin said that firs were largely used in 

 ornamental gardens, and it was therefore difficult to prove that there were no firs 

 in any one locality, and with regard to the specimen taken at Shoebury, it might 

 have emerged on a vessel laden with firs and then have flown on to the saltings. 

 Mr. Cooper remarked that he had noticed a number of firs in the gardens adjoining 

 the saltings at Shoebury. Mr. Robinson exhibited varieties of Agro Us scgetum and 

 A. exclamationis , from Hunts. Mr. Manger, Coleoptera from Dargeeling, India, and 

 Mr. Billups over forty species of Arachnida, including three rare and local species, 

 Hcliophonus flavipes, Ballus dtprcssus, Pachygnatha degccr. Mr. Tugwell made some 

 remarks on a communication he had received from Mr. Pierce, of Liverpool, as to 

 determining species of Zyganida by an examination of the genital organs. 



March 14th, 1889. — J- T - Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President in the chair. 

 Mr. A. Home, of Aberdeen, was elected a member. Mr. Percy Russ exhibited a 

 large number of species of lepidoptera taken in the neighbourhood of Sligo, including 

 Aporophyla lutidcnta, var. hineburgcnsis, and many other local forms and varieties. 

 Mr. Adye, series of Dasycampa rubiginca and Xanthia flavago, taken in Hampshire. 

 Mr. R. South, a curiously coloured specimen of Zygana ftlipendtila, and what he 

 thought was a variety of Hadcna dentina, both received from Mr. Baxter, of St. Anns- 

 cn-Sea. Mr. R. Adkin, two dwarfed specimens of Lyccena corydon, an underside of 

 the male of L. icarus, with the black central dot of the lower of the two basal spots 

 on the superior wing absent and the outer light ring elongated, also specimens of 

 Endotricha flammcalis, Scopula ferrugalis, and Rhodophcea marmorea, all from the Sussex 

 coast, 1888. The Secretary read a note from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, on Pyractomena 

 corealis, and an aberration of Dermestes fasciatus, having the left elytron grey below 

 the grey band, almost as grey as the band itself, with little black marbling, the 

 right elytron below the band, black with a trace of pale marbling, probably this was 

 due to partial atavism. Mr. Tugwell read a paper " Practical Hints on breeding 

 Macro-lepidoptera." — H. W. Barker, Hon. Secretary. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY. 



March 25th, 1889.— Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., President, in the chair. Mr. A. T. 

 Wootton was proposed for membership. The Hon. Secretary read " Notes on 

 Coleoptera taken during 1888," dealing more particularly with pond work done by 

 him in the Liverpool District. Messrs. C. H. H. Walker and F. N. Pierce (Vice- 

 President) exhibited through the Micro-Lantern, and made remarks upon, some 

 beautifully prepared microscopical slides showing the heads of various insects. Mr. 



A. T. Wootton exhibited a beautiful bred variety of Vanessa atalanta, the scarlet 

 bands on all four wings being replaced by yellow. Mr. Pierce exhibited varieties of 



B. perla and N. xanthographa, the latter from Scotland. Mr. Moore exhibited four 

 drawers of European Lycanida. — R. Wilding, Hon. Secretary. 



