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THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY ASSOCIATION. 



February 2jth, 1890.— J. T. Carrington, Esq, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Messrs. W. Smith of Paisley, W. Bloomfield of Mildmay Park, and G. A. Farini 

 of Forrest Hill were elected members. 



Mr. Bloomfield exhibited two specimens of Hesperia Uneola, Ochs., taken in Essex, 

 1888. Mr. Watson, a nest of a species of Mantis, with two living examples of the 

 insect, many others had emerged in its transit from Sydney where the species was 

 said to occur freely. Mr. Billups, Meopus trispinosus, Wat., from New Zealand, 

 Poropleura monstrosa, Olivr., from Brazil and read notes relative to his exhibit. Mr" 

 Billups also showed galls collected at West Cliff, Colorado, by Mr. Cockerell who 

 wrote that the rose galls were of three species Rhodites ignata, Osten Sacken., from 

 which an abundance of a parasitic Cynipid, Periclustris pirata, Osten Sacken., would 

 be bred, Rhodites fusiformis, a new species, and the little blister like galls on the leaves 

 would produce Rhodites rosafolia, Cockerell. Of the Willow galls, the reddish 

 fusiform ones produced Cecidomyia solids — siliqua, Walsh., the bad galls Cecidomyia 

 salicis — strobiloides, Osten Sacken. Mr. Cockerell expressed an opinion that from 

 the galls many Chalcids including some rare species, would be reared in addition to 

 the gall makers. 



An exhibition of microscopical objects was then given, Messrs Collins, W. West, 

 R. Adkin, T. R. Billups, Cameron and others taking part. 

 March 13th, 1890. — The President in the chair. 



Messrs. A. E. Peake of Tooting, and E. W. Sinclair-Cox were elected members. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited typical specimens of Agrotis obelisca, Hb. from Germany, the 

 variety hast if era, Donz., from Hungary, and some picked specimens captured by Mr. 

 A. J. Hodges in the Isle of Wight, of a different type to the var. hasttfera, but much 

 nearer that than the typical obelisca. Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Mania typica, L., and 

 said that the larvae were found last autumn, fed up in a warm room the majority of 

 them pupated in November, the imagines appearing in January and February of the 

 present year. He had found a similar method of forcing the larvae of some of the 

 Triphana, that he had tried equally successful, and he believed that many other species 

 of Noctuae whose larvae hybernated might be similarly treated with good results pro- 

 vided of course that they could be induced to take such foods as might be obtained 

 during the winter months. Mr. Gerrard exhibited living larvae and pupae with set 

 examples of the imago of a species of Ephestia, which was discovered in some old 

 sample? of rice, he said he was at present unable to say where the moth came from, 

 as the samples of rice were from Japan, Java and Burmah, and these had unfortunate- 

 ly been mixed, be would however write out to the merchant who had forwarded the 

 samples and get further information. Mr. Mansbridge showed living larvae and 

 imagines of a species of Tineina found feeding in samples of fish guano, and said that 

 the guano was brought from Brettesnaes on the N.W. coast of Norway, and was com- 

 posed of the bones and flesh of small cod and herrings. The larvae inhabited a tube 

 or gallery which was formed with particles of the food united with silk, in all the 

 examples seen, these galleries were beneath the surface, but the larvae before changing 



