1890] 



THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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REPOETS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 5th, 1890. — Capt. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. G. H. Kenrick, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Rendles- 

 ham, of Rendlesham Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk, were elected Fellows, and Mr. J. P. 

 Mutch was admitted into the Society. 



Mr. G. G. Barrett exhibited a number of specimens of Dianthecia carpophaga, Bork., 

 bred by Mr. W. F. H. Blandford from larvse collected near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, 

 on flowers of Silene maritima. He remarked that the series included a number of forms 

 intermediate between D. carpophaga and D. capsophila, and established the fact that the 

 latter is only a local variety of the former. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, Mr. Blandford, 

 Mr. M'Lachlan, and the Chairman took part in a discussion as to the identity of the 

 supposed species. Mr. Barrett further exhibited a specimen of Dianthecia luteago, var. 

 Barrettii, Db., also bred by Mr. Blandford from a larva found at Tenby, and he remark- 

 ed that the species had not previously been taken in England; also a long series of forms 

 intermediate between Catoptria scopoliana, Hw., and its small variety parvulana, Wilk., 

 collected by Mr. E. Bankes, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Vine, and others, in Sussex, the Isle 

 of Wight, and Pembrokeshire; also a specimen of Botys mutualis, Zell., — a species 

 widely distributed in Asia and Africa, — taken by Mr. C. S. Gregson, near Bolton, 

 Lancashire. 



Mr. A. F. Griffith exhibited and made remarks on the following : — two specimens 

 of Myelois Pryerella, taken in the London Docks in 1888. and for comparison, a series of 

 M. ceratonia; two specimens of Penthina grevillana and a series of P. pralongana, taken 

 in Sutherlandshire, and, for comparison, a series of P. sauciana, var. Staintoniana ; 

 three specimens of the form of Exapatc named duratella, with two of the ordinary 

 E, gelatella bred from larva? taken in Sutherlandshire on Myrica gale ; one specimen of 

 Incurvaria tenuicomis and four of Ncmophora pilclla ; also two specimens of a unicolorous 

 variety of Hypermecia angustana from Horning, Norfolk. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited several abnormal specimens of Arctia caja, bred last 

 December. The object of the exhibition was to show the effect produced by forcing 

 the larva?, and subjecting them to unusual conditions. It was stated that the peculiar- 

 ity of the colour of the hind wings of the female parent had not been transmitted to 

 any of the offspring. 



Mr. Blandford referred to two specimens of a species of Cardiophorus, from Tenby, 

 which he had exhibited at the August meeting of the Society as Cardiophorus cinereus, 

 and stated that subsequent investigation had led him to hand them to Mr. Champion 

 for determination. Mr. Champion was of opinion that they did not belong to the 

 same species; that one of them was C. aselhts. Er., and the other, propably, C. equiseti, 

 Hbst., a species new to this country. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper entitled " New Longicornia from Africa and 

 Madagascar." 



Capt. Elwes read a paper entitled, "On a new species of Thymara and other 

 species allied to Himantopterus fuscinervis, Wesmael." 



