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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[December 



meeting of the Society ; he also exhibited seven varieties of Melanippe thuleana, nine of 

 Coremia munitata, and a few of Noctua conflna, illustrating the varied forms of these 

 species occurring in Iceland. Dr. Mason said that the only British specimens of N\ 

 conflua which he had seen resembling the Iceland form of the species were taken at 

 Wolsingham, Durham. 



Mons. A. Wailly exhibited and remarked on a number of Lepidoptera from 

 Japan. The collection comprised about thirty species, eleven of which, it was stated, 

 were not represented in the British Museum collections. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited a number of rare species of Coleoptera, including 

 Homalota crassicomis, Gyll., H. fimorum, Bris., H. humeralis, Kr., and Earyponis 

 picipes, Pk., collected at Church Stretton, Shropshire; and also Amara niticla, 

 Sturm., Oxypoda amcena, Fair., Homalota testaceipes, Heer., Lithocharis apicalis, Kr., 

 and Epuvcea neglecta, Heer, from the neighbourhood of Tonbridge. 



Mr. Meyer-Darcis exhibited a specimen of Termitebia physogastra, Gangelb., a new 

 genus and species of Brachelytra obtained in a white ants' nest from the Congo. Dr 

 Sharp commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition. 



Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a collection of moths from Southern India, which 

 comprised about forty species, distributed amongst the following families : — 

 Syntomida, Lithosiida, Arctiida, Lasiocampidce , Zerenidcs, Fidonida, Lcucanida, Heliothidte, 

 AcontiidcE, Poaphilida, &c. He also read a paper describing these species, entitled 

 " New Species of Moths from Southern India." 



The Rev. T. A. Marshall communicated a paper entitled " A Monograph of 

 British Braconidae. Part IV." 



Lord Walsingham read a paper entitled " African Micro-Lepidoptera," containing 

 descriptions of seventy-one new species, and of the following nine new genera, viz : — ■ 

 Autochthonus (type A. chalybiellus, WlesmJ, Scalidoma (type Tinea horridella, Wkr.J, 

 Barbaroscardia (type B. fasciata, WlsmJ, Odites, (type 0. Hatalensis, Wlsm.j, 

 Idiopteryx (type Cryptolechia obliquella, WlsmJ, Microthauma (type M. metallifera, 

 WlsmJ, Licmoccra (type L. lyonetiella, WlsmJ, Oxymachavis (type 0. niveocervina, 

 Wlsm.j, and Micropostega type M. ceneo fasciata, WlsmJ Several European and 

 American genera were recorded as new to the African fauna, and the occurrence of 

 one Australian and two Indian genera was also noted. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The monthly meeting was held on Monday, November ioth, the President, S. J. 

 Capper, F.L.S., in the chair. 



Mr. E. C. Stott was elected a member. 



Tee President made some remarks on Miss Ormerod's new " Manual of Injurious 

 Insects," a copy of which she presented to the Society's library, and said the size had 

 been greatly increased since the last edition. It contained a large number of new 

 figures, and twenty new crop insects which had been found to be injurious since the 

 first edition. There was also a portrait of Miss Ormerod, and he recommended all 

 interested in ecomic entomology to procure a copy. 



Mr. I. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper on " Hypocephalus armatus 



