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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The meeting of the above society was held on Monday, loth February, in the Free 

 Library (the President), Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., in the chair; Dr. J. W. Ellis, of 

 Stoke-on-Trent, for many years secretary of the society was unanimously elected an 

 honorary member. 



Mr. E. Sharp read a paper, entitled — "Contributions to the Local Coleopterous 

 fauna," in which he enumerated 8 species of beetles which had added to the local 

 list since the publication of Dr. Ellis's " Coleoptera of the district." 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Robert Newstead, of the Grosvenor 

 Museum, Chester, in which he stated that he had added 7 new species of Coleoptera 

 to the district of Chester mostly taken from Wasps nests. 



The Secretary made some remarks on the damage done by Lepidopterous larvae 

 to Irish linen while bleaching. Mr. C. H. H. Walker drew attention to the large 

 size of the silk-producing glands of certain larvae, illustrating his remarks by a black- 

 board diagram of the organ in situ, and also the Epiploon or fat gland, and he stated 

 it to be his belief, that larvae during hybernation, or skin casting, were able to feed upon 

 this fat, and so sustain life. 



The President showed some beautiful varieties of Spilosoma htbricepeda and 

 menthastri . Mr. Geo. A. Harker, specimens of Hcsperia lineola, a butterfly new to the 

 British Isles, and pointed out the difference between it and the common skipper, H. 

 1 7 nea. 



143, Smithdown lane, Liverpool. F. N. PIERCE, Hon. Sec. 



RETINIA MARGAROTANA H.S. 



A TORTRIX NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 by J. B. HODGKINSON. 



A short time ago Messrs. C. G. Barrett and S. Webb paid me a 

 visit, and looked through my collection. On coming to my series of 

 Retinia pinivorana they called attention to a peculiar looking specimen 

 that was evidently not pinivorana, but was unknown to both of them. 

 1 afterwards sent it to Mr. Barrett, who, unable to make it out, went 

 to the usual place for assistance Mr. H. T. Stainton, and learned that 

 it was Retinia margarotana, H.S. a species new to Britain. I certainly 

 did not take the specimen myself for it is not on the pins I use, and 

 there is little doubt but it has been sent me with pinivorana from the 

 West of Scotland. Yesterday when looking for another pinivorana to 

 fill up the place where margarotana had been taken from, I found 

 another very fine specimen of this new species among my duplicates. 

 This specimen I took among Scotch fir, on the high moorland above 

 Stoneyhurst, at the end of the first week in June, taking it for a fine 



