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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



FEBRUARY, Uth, 1919. 

 The President in the chair. 



Mr, Ashdown exhibited some of the Coleoptera referred to iu the 

 " Ent. Record," December, 1918, namely, Mordella aciileata and 

 AijriluH sinuatus, both new to the Surrey County List. Also the 

 streaked ab. hebrcm of Anatis ocellata from Oxshott, apparently the 

 second recorded British specimen. 



Mr. Tatchell exhibited an aberration of Vanessa io, in which the 

 ocelli on hindwings were replaced by tiny spots, and the black 

 markings on costa coalescent. Bred from a larva taken in the New 

 Forest, July, 1912. Also a specimen of the Fossorial Hymenopteron 

 Mutilla enroiHva, taken in the New Forest in 1912 ; the species is 

 supposed to be parasitic, and is frequently found in the nests of 

 Boiubus. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a long series of Loueia {Chnjsophaniis) 

 alciphron from various continental localities, including (1) the type 

 form from Buda Pesth, in which the beautiful violet gloss was 

 present over the dark suffusion of all the wings in the male ; this 

 occurs throughout Central Europe from the Baltic to the Alps ; 

 further east the violet gloss is still more developed in brilliancy, 

 making the species one of the most brilliantly beautiful insects 

 known : (2) race (jordius, the form common in the Alps and further 

 south, in which there is but little suffusion and gloss on the upper 

 side of the male ; the two sexes approximate in depth of ground 

 colour on all wings ; the specimens were larger than the type form 

 in both sexes ; (3) race (jranadensis from Spain, smaller than the 

 type in both sexes ; (4) ab. inteyniedia, forms which were between 

 the typical form and (jordiiis occurring in many places ; those 

 exhibited were from Bologna, Italy ; (5) ab. vidnata, examples in 

 which there was a paucity of markings on the upper surface, not as 

 in the type, where the markings are only obscured by the suffusion ; 

 (6) race ineliboens from S.E. Europe, in which the ground colour is 

 less pure and rich than in tjordius : it is less in size ; (7) ab. sub- 



