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of the species, but the general opinion was that the larvae were only those of 

 Eupithecia absynthiata. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. G. Bryant, a variety of the larva of Trichiura 

 cratagi. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a specimen of Plusia moneta, Fabr., a species new to 

 Britain, taken at Reading by Mr. W. Holland in July last. It was stated that a 

 second specimen of this species had been taken at Dover last June, and was now in 

 the collection of Mr. Sydney Webb, of that town. Mr. Kirby said that Mynheer 

 Snellen had reported this species as being unusually common in Holland a few years 

 ago. 



Mr. W. Dannatt exhibited a variety of Papilio hectorides from Paraguay. Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin said he believed he had seen this form before. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a curious little larva-like creature, found by Mr. Green 

 in a rapid mountain stream in Ceylon, and observed that there was some doubt as to 

 its true position in the animal kingdom. It was made up of six distinct segments, 

 each of which bore a single pair of laterally directed processes or unjointed append- 

 ages. Mr. Hampson remarked that the appendages were very suggestive of the para- 

 podia of certain chsetopod worms, but that all the known polychaetous worms were 

 marine. Lord Walsingham and Mr. M'Lachlan expressed an opinion that the animal 

 was of myriopodous affinities, and was not the larva of an insect. 



Mr. Baker read a paper entitled " Notes on the genitalia of a gynandromorphous 

 Eronia hippia." — H. Goss, Hon, Sec. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting was held on Monday last, in the Free Library, the President 

 (S. J. Capper, Esq., F.L.S., in the chair. Mr. P. Schill of Manchester was elected 

 a member. 



The President made some remarks on the proposed record of Insect Fauna of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, and presented the Society with a copy of the work done by 

 the late Benjamin Cooke, one of the former Vice-Presidents ; in speaking of this 

 gentleman, the President said, that any work he had done might be relied upon, as he 

 was one of the best authorities on the neglected orders of insects that had ever lived. 

 A resolution was subsequently passed, appointing the existing Council of the Society 

 to form a committee for the purpose of undertaking the work. 



Messrs. Harker and Jones read a paper entitled "A week at Howth," in which 

 they gave a graphic description of a weeks collecting at this locality, illustrating the 

 paper with a large number of specimens. 



During the Conversazione the President showed some fine varieties of Arctia caja. 



The Vice-President showed forms Vanessa antiopa for comparison, and Mr. Sharp, 

 Coleoptera collected at Howth. — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



