The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, Volume 27James William Tutt Charles Phipps., 1915 - Entomology |
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aberrations abundant Agriades coridon Agriades thetis Agrotis amphidamas antennæ Anthocharis Anthrocera Apatura appear Argynnis August blue bred Brenthis British brood butterflies captured Celastrina argiolus Chapman Charpigny Chrysophanus citrata cocoons Coenonympha Colias collection colour common concinnata dark Donisthorpe Dysstroma Eclépens edusa Entomological Society Entomologist Erebia Eupithecia exhibited female figures FISON flowers flying forewing genitalia genus gynandromorphous hindwings hippothoë Hymenoptera insect interesting July June large number larva larvæ latter left side Lepidoptera Limenitis populi locality London Loweia lunigera Lycaena Lycaenidae male margin melanic Melitaea moths Myrmica Myrmica scabrinodis Myrmica schencki nest Noctuid notes observations pale Papilio Pararge Pieris plates Plebeius Polyommatus icarus populi pupa Pyrameis recorded right side road Rumicia phlaeas Satyrus Scolitantides orion season seen South species specimens spots taken tegumen terebra took truncata trux Tutt underside upperside valley wings wood yellow Zool
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Page 251 - They include seven species of the genus (Ecanthus and one species of the genus Neoxabea. The interest in these insects centers chiefly about their remarkable reproductive structures and instincts and their peculiar oviposition habits. The song of the male, which serves to attract the female, is produced by a minute rasp on the under side of the forewing which is scraped by a structure on the inner edge of the opposite wing. In producing the sound the wings are raised at right angles to the body and...
Page 18 - FZS Treasurer: Albert Hugh Jones. Secretaries : Commander James J. Walker, MA, RN, FLS, and The Rev. George Wheeler, MA, FZS Librarian : George Charles Champion, ALS Council: George T.
Page 18 - Votes of thanks were unanimously passed to the retiring Officers and Council. The following is a list of those gentlemen elected to serve as Officers and Council for the ensuing year: — President: R. Adkin, FES ; Vice-Presidents : WJ Kaye, FES, and H. Main B.Sc., FES ; Treasurer: TW Hall, FES; Librarian: AW Dods ; Curator: W. West (Greenwich) ; Hon. Secretaries : Stanley Edwards, FLS, FZS, and Hy.
Page 92 - LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. — Annual Meeting held at the Royal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, December 19th, 1910, Mr. R. Newstead, M.Sc., FES, VicePresident, in the chair. — The Reports of the Council and Hon. Treasurer were read and adopted, and the following members were elected as officers and Council for the ensuing year, viz. — President, SJ Capper, FES ; Vice-Presidents, WJ Lucas, BA ; CE Stott; Claude Morley, FZS; PF Tinne, MA, MB; Geo. Arnold, M.Sc. ; Treasurer,...
Page 135 - ... usually just below them." The occurrence of Coniothyrium about the oviposition punctures of niveus in apple bark have suggested that this cricket may act as a carrier of the disease. In studying the feeding and egg-laying habits of this insect it appears that infection of apple bark might take place (l) as a result of wounds produced by the gnawing of the bark by the female as the initial step in the act of oviposition ; (2) by means of the ovipositor, the adhesive substance discharged at the...
Page 70 - Society had awarded the Darwin Medal to Prof. EB Poulton, a former President of the Entomological Society.
Page 117 - A black and white cow, tethered about forty feet from an apiary, was one afternoon attacked and badly stung by bees. On examination it was found that the black spots had five or six stings to one on the white.
Page 137 - ... of the American Museum of Natural History; Mr. CW Shepherd, of Kensington, London ; Dr. HM Smith, United States Commissioner of Fisheries ; Prof. CH Gilbert and Prof. JO Snyder, of Leland Stanford Junior University ; and Dr. SE Meek, of the Field Museum of Natural History. Insects. — The deposits of insects by the Bureau of Entomology were exceptionally extensive and notable. The largest and most important was a collection made by the force of the bureau engaged in the investigation of southern...
Page 45 - Verrall, and Aenigmatias blattoides, Meinert, which he had reared in a nest of Formica picea, Nyl., taken in the New Forest in July last. He pointed out that he believed he had proved that these two flies were the J and 2 of the same species.
Page 45 - F., 2 , with abnormal ocelli ; also a photograph, from nature, of eggs in situ, laid in a rose-stem in a double row by Vallisnieri's " Mosca dei Rosai," Arge pagana, exactly as in the author's original figure.