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Hon. Lanternist. — A. W. Dennis. 



Council. — R. Adkin, F.E.S., R. T. Bowman, L. E. Dunstei', 

 F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., M.B.O.U., Lachlan Gibb, F.E.S., 

 T. W. Hall, F.E.S., N. D. Riley, F.E.S., Dr. G. C. Robertson, 

 E. Step, F.L.S. 



The President then read the Annual Address. (See page 34.) 



The new President, Mr. K. G. Blair, B.Sc, F.E.S., took the chair. 



Votes of thanks were passed to the retiring President, Treasurer, 

 Officers and Council, and the Auditors for their services during the 

 past year. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



Messrs. H. Morell, of Wallington, and S. W. Harvey, of 

 Sydenham, were elected members. 



Mr. Garrett exhibited an extremely dark suffused specimen of 

 Aiu/iades si/hroiim from Bexley, Kent, very similar to those from the 

 higher Swiss altitudes. 



Mr. Blair exhibited a living specimen of the wasp-beetle, Cb/tiis 

 arietift, just emerged from a branch sent to the British Museum. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited Melitaea aurinia from various 

 British and continental localities, including a fine series of the 

 variegated praedara form from Co. Tyrone, Ireland, a series of the 

 darker scota form from the same locality, a pair of the hibeinica 

 form in which the outer margins are black and almost devoid of 

 lighter markings, from Ireland, a series of the sir/nifera form, 

 reddish fulvous ground with slight straw coloured band from 

 Penarth, a series of the large Llanbedr form much more variegated 

 than in si(jiiifera, Kentish forms which approach the provincialis 

 race of South France, which was also shown, the somewhat paler 

 forms of the Irish races from Enniskillen and Mullingar, small 

 variegated forms from Basingstoke and Carlisle {artemis ?), the 

 Corsican form comparable to the provincialis form, but with darker, 

 more decided black markings, a very large specimen from 

 Montserrat, the dwarf mountain form inerope from the Heuthal, 

 Davos, Albula Pass, Campolungo Pass, Furka Pass, Rift'el Alp, a 

 brighter small form from the Italian Alps, and a curious small 

 black and reddish form from Bavaria. Heuthal specimens were 

 extremely dark, almost black, with a minimum of straw-coloured 

 markings only. There were also two of the bright Oban specimens. 



