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Entomological Society, October 5.—Mr. F. Merrifield, president, in the chair.—Mr. E. Harris showed living larvse of Cordylomera saturalis, taken from a log of mahogany imported from the Sekondi district of the Gold Coast, together with the perfect beetle, which was dead at the time the discovery was made:—Mr. A. T. Rose exhibited a remarkable melanic specimen of Catocala nupta, taken by Mr. Lewis in his garden at Hornsey, N., in September. The coloration of the lower wings was of a dull brown, and all the markings of the upper wings were strongly intensified.—Mr. N. H. Joy brought for exhibition Coleoptera taken during a three days' trip to Lundy Island in August, including Melanophthalma distinguenda, Con., a species new to Britain; Sienus ossium var. insularis, a variety apparently new to science; and Ceuthorrhynchus contractus var. pallipes, Crotch, peculiar to the island. One hundred and sixty-three species were taken on the island, about eighty of which are not recorded in Wollaston's and F. Smith's lists of Lundy Coleoptera.—Mr. A. Siesh showed examples of Argyresthia illuminatella, Z., two of the four specimens taken near Hailsham, Sussex, on June 15 this year. They were beaten off Pinus, and until examined with a lens, were supposed to be Ocnerostoma piniariella, of which species two were also exhibited for comparison.—Mr. W. J. Lugcas exhibited the larva, cocoon, and the subsequent imago of;an “antlion,” Myrmeleo formicarius, from two Spanish. tlaryae given him by Dr. T. A. Chapman last, autumn. The difference in size between the small larva, ani the large perfect insect was remarkable. He also sheiwd;a living 9′ of the rather scarce grasshopper Sterioboihrus rufipesj taken in the New Forest at the end of August, and kept alive by feeding on grass.—Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited several examples of o Lymexylon navale, by from the New Forest, where it was not often found.—Mr. A. H. Jones showed series of Lycaena argus, (aegon, Scinff.), var. hypochiona, taken on the North Downs this jear, approaching the form of L. argyrognomon taken not uncommonly in the Rhone Valley. Together with these he had arranged for comparison typical British L. argils, L., L. var. Corsica, from Tattone, Corsica, and a series of L. argyrognomon, Brgstr. (argus, auctorum), from Chippis, near Sierre.—Colonel J. W. Yerbury exhibited specimens of Hammerschmidtia ferruginea, Fin., from Nethy Bridge, the first authentic British specimens; also Microdon latifrons, Lw., a specimen of which, taken at Nethy Bridge June 18, 1900, he had wrongly identified as M. devius, and under this name it was recorded in Verrall's “British Flies”; and of Chamaesyrphus scaevoides, Fin., a single specimen swept on June 15 in the Abernethy Forest near Forest Lodge.—Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited series of four species of the genus Coleophora, C. alcyonipennella, C. lixella, C. albitarsella, and C. badiipennella, together with the larval cases mounted in situ on the ruined leaves of their respective food plants. He also exhibited living larvae and their cases, of Goniodoma limoniella on Statice limonium, Coleophora obtusella on Juncus maritimus, and C. glaucicolella (?) on Juncus glaucus, found in the Isle of Wight.—Commander J. J. Walker read a paper by Mr. A. M. Lea entitled “The Blind Coleoptera of Australia and Tasmania,” and exhibited specimens of Illaphanus stephensi, Macl., from Watson's Bay, Sydney, N.S.W., and Phycochus graniceps, Broun, and P. sulcipennis, Lea, from Hobart, Tasmania.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 72, 647–648 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072647a0
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